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 to be taken from her and sold to cruel men , and she would never see him again . She felt she could not bear it . Eliza 's husband was called George , and was a slave too . He did not belong to Mr. Shelby , but to another man , who had a farm quite near . George and Eliza could not live together as a husband and wife generally do . Indeed , they hardly ever saw each other . George 's master was a cruel man , and would not let him come to see his wife . He was so cruel , and beat George so dreadfully , that the poor slave made up his mind to run away . He had come that very day to tell Eliza what he meant to do .
As soon as Mr. and Mrs. Shelby stopped talking , Eliza crept away XXXXX her own room , where little Harry was sleeping .
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