so as to attract attention at Sarah's brother's house. I told the
woman to let her go, and threatened her with my whip. "Get away,"
shouted Boston Yankee, who had come upon the scene. "Drive as fast
as you can; never mind if you kill the horse."

We started; the woman still shouting for help, and I drove on as
rapidly as the horse would go. When we had gone on a mile or two, I
asked Sarah what all this meant? She told me that the woman was her
brother's servant; that Mary and herself left her father's house a
little after four o'clock to go over and call at her brother's; that
just before five, when she was to meet me, she and Mary proposed to
go out for a walk; that the whole family watched her constantly, and
so her brother's wife told the servant woman to get on her things
and go with them. "You, may be sure," she, added, "that the woman
will arouse the whole neighborhood, and that they will all be after
us." I needed no further hint to push on. We were going toward Water
Gap, as Boston Yankee had advised, and when we were about eight
miles on the way, I deemed it prudent to drive into the woods and to
wait till night before going on. We drove in just off the road, and
tied our horse. We were effectually concealed; our pursuers, if
there were any, would be sure to go by us, and meantime we could
talk over our plans for the future. Sarah told me that when Mary
came to the house the night before, she was not at all surprised to
see her, as she occasionally came up from Easton to make them a
little visit, and to stay all night; that she went to the
summer-house with Mary to sit down and talk, and almost immediately
saw the ring on Mary's finger; that when she saw it she at once
recognized it, and asked her: "O! Mary, where did you get that
ring?" "Keep quiet," said Mary: "don't talk loud, or some one may
hear you; don't be agitated; your lover is near, and has sent me to