knowledge of medicine. I did not however, believe in any of the
"schools" particularly those schools that make use of mineral
medicines in their practice. I favored purely vegetable remedies,
and had been very successful in administering them. So I began life
anew, in Worthington, as a Doctor, and aided by my half-sister and
her friends, I soon secured a remunerative practice.

I was beginning to be truly happy. I supposed that the final
separation, mutually agreed upon between my wife and myself, was as
effectual as all the courts in the country could make it, and I
looked upon myself as a free man. Accordingly, after I had been in
Worthington some months I began to pay attentions to the daughter of
a flourishing farmer. She was a fine girl; she received my addresses
favorably, and we were finally privately married. This was the
beginning of my life-long troubles. In a few weeks her father found
out that I had been previously married, and was not, so far as he
knew, either a divorced man or a widower. And so it happened, that
one day when I was at his house, and with his daughter, he suddenly
came home with a posse of people and a warrant for my arrest. I was
taken before a justice, and while we were waiting for proceedings to
begin, or, possibly for the justice to arrive, I took the excited
father aside and said:

"You know I have a fine horse and buggy at the door. Get in with me,
and ride down home. I will see your daughter and make everything
right with her, and if you will let me run away, I'll give her her
the horse and buggy."

The offer was too tempting to be refused. The father had the warrant
in his pocket, and he accepted my proposal. We rode to his house,