` My wife is very fond of Eliza , and would never hear of having Harry sold . ' ` Oh , very well , ' said Haley once more , ' I must just sell your house . ' So again Mr. Shelby gave in , and Haley went away with the promise that next morning Uncle Tom and little Harry should be given to him , to be his slaves . CHAPTER II ELIZA RUNS AWAY WITH LITTLE HARRY Mr. Shelby was very unhappy because of what he had done . He knew his wife would be very unhappy too , and he did not know how to tell her . He had to do it that night , however , before she went to bed . Mrs. Shelby could hardly believe it . ` Oh , you do not mean this , ' she said . ` You must not sell our good Tom and dear little Harry . Do anything rather than that . It is a wicked , wicked thing to do . ` There is nothing else I can do , ' said Mr. Shelby . ' I have sold everything I can think of , and at any rate now that Haley has set his heart on having Tom and Harry , he would not take anything or anybody instead . ' Mrs. Shelby cried very much about it , but at last , though she was very , very unhappy she fell asleep . But some one whom Mr. and Mrs. Shelby never thought of was listening to this talk . Eliza was sitting in the next room . The door was not quite closed , so she could not help hearing what was said . As she listened she grew pale and cold and a terrible look of pain came into her face . Eliza had had three dear little children , but two of them had died when they were tiny babies . She loved and cared for Harry all the more because she had lost the others .
Now he was XXXXX be taken from her and sold to cruel men , and she would never see him again .
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