I had plenty of money; but this kind of travelling is inexpensive,
and, paying twenty-five cents for one or two meals a day, as I dared
to get them, and sleeping in barns or under haystacks for nothing,
my purse did not materially diminish. I was a good walker, and in
the course of a week from the night when I left Keene, I found
myself in Biddeford, Maine.
There was some sense of security in being in another State, and here
I ventured to take the cars for Portland, where I staid two days,
sending in the meantime for my trunk from Meredith Bridge, and
getting it by express. Of course it went to a fictitious address at
Meredith, and it came to me under the same name which I had
registered in my hotel at Portland.
I did not mean to stay there long. My departure was hastened by the
advice of a man who knew me, and told he also knew my New Hampshire
scrape, and that I had better leave Portland as soon as possible.
Half an hour after this good advice I was on my way by cars to
Canada. In Canada I stayed in different small towns near the border,
and "kept moving," till I thought the New Hampshire matter had blown
over a little, or at least till they had given me up as a "gone
case," and I then reappeared in Troy.
CHAPTER IX.
MARRYING TWO MILLINERS.
BACK IN VERMONT-FRESH TEMPTATIONS-MARGARET BRADLEY-WINE AND WOMEN-A
MOCK MARRIAGE IN TROY-THE FALSE CERTIFICATE-MEDICINE AND
MILLINERY-ELIZA GURNSEY-A SPREE AT SARATOGA-MARRYING ANOTHER
MILLINER-AGAIN ARRESTED OR BIGAMY-IN JAIL ELEVEN MONTHS-A TEDIOUS
TRIAL-FOUND GUILTY-APPEAL TO SUPREME COURT-TRYING TO BREAK OUT OF
JAIL-A GOVERNOR'S PROMISE-SECOND TRIAL-SENTENCE TO THREE YEARS'
IMPRISONMENT.
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