So, Alice goes to Rufus. She adjusts, becomes a quieter, more subdued
person. She doesn't kill him, but she herself seems to die a little. One
morning, she even comes downstairs with her face swollen and bruised.
That is the morning that Dana knows she should stop wondering whether
to ask Rufus to help her go North to find Kevin. He has not done anything
so far to help her, and he continues to control her by threatening others.
Furthermore, leaving on her own seems out of the realm of possibility,
given what she has.......
When Dana awakens, she is tied hand and foot and is thrown over Rufus'
horse. Eventually, he stops and unties her, and then they ride back to
the plantation with her sitting in front of Rufus. Tom Weylin's only comment
is, See there. Educated nigger don't mean smart nigger, do it? Once
they return, Rufus tells Dana that she's going to get the cowhide. She
is tied by her hands over her head and beaten until she swings back and
forth from the force of the blows. She begs for the nausea to come that
will send her home........
Liza, the sewing woman, has fallen and hurt herself, but Tom Weylin
doesn't believe it. He tells her to name the person who hurt her, and
that person will be punished. Liza, however, won't say, insisting that
she fell down the stairs. It turns out that she heard Dana get up to run
away that night and went straight.......
The first day Dana is able to get up, Rufus calls her to his room and
hands her a letter from Kevin to Tom Weylin. It says that he's on his
way for Dana. Rufus explains that after he learned his son hadn't sent
Dana's letters, Tom had decided to write to Kevin, because he's a fair
man. This leads to Dana attacking Rufus verbally for........
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