In two days' time, Governor Price sent my pardon into the prison.
The Warden came and told me of it, and said he would let me out in
an hour. Then came a keeper who once more put the cap over my face
and led me around the interior-I was willingly led now-till he
brought me to a room where he gave me my own clothes which I put on,
and with a kind parting word, and five dollars from the Warden, I
was soon in the street, once more a free man. My sentence of ten
years had been fulfilled by an imprisonment of exactly seven months.
I went and called on Governor Price to thank him for his great
goodness towards me. He received me kindly, talked to me for some
time, and gave me some good advice and a little money. With this and
the five dollars I received from the Warden of the prison I started
for New York.
CHAPTER VII.
ON THE KEEN SCENT.
GOOD RESOLUTIONS-ENJOYING FREEDOM-GOING AFTER A CRAZY MAN-THE OLD
TEMPTER IN A NEW FORM-MARY GORDON-MY NEW "COUSIN"-ENGAGED
AGAIN-VISIT TO THE OLD FOLKS AT HOME-ANOTHER MARRIAGE-STARTING FOR
OHIO-CHANGE OF PLANS-DOMESTIC QUARRELS-UNPLEASANT STORIES ABOUT
MARY-BOUND OVER TO KEEP THE PEACE-ANOTHER ARREST FOR BIGAMY-A SUDDEN
FLIGHT-SECRETED THREE WEEKS IN A FARM HOUSE-RECAPTURED AT CONCORD
-ESCAPED ONCE MORE-TRAVELING ON THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD-IN CANADA.
It would seem as if, by this time, I had had enough of miscellaneous
marrying and the imprisonment that almost invariably followed. I had
told Governor Price, when I first implored him for pardon, that if
he would release me I would begin a new life, and endeavor to be in
all respects a better man.
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