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`` Yes , Miss Viola , I is , kase de wo ` ds made such a ` pression on mah mind dat I ` members dem zackly . '' `` You are certain they selected Tuesday night for their wicked acts ? '' `` Dey spoke of Chewsday night , and tuk it bekase Mas ' r Very is to go dat way dat night . '' `` You can leave me now for an hour , but at eight o'clock come back and I will send by you a message to Mr. Very . '' When the negro had left , Viola LeMonde retired to her own room and seating herself at her writing desk , wrote the following communication : `` Mount Pisgah , January 6 , 181 -- . The Rev. Jasper Very , Dear Mr. Very : Our servant , Mose Williams , has just made known to me a plot which some base men have devised to treat you with indignity and to bring the cause of religion into contempt . Mose was returning home late last night from Mr. St. Claire 's plantation when , seeing a light in Simon Wiles ' barn , he crept near and , looking through a chink in the wall , saw Sam Wiles , Bert Danks , Zibe Turner , and two other men lying on some hay .