lonely life during the last few months. Moreover, she was
weak and nervous and broken in health. When her husband paid this brief
visit, she bitterly reproached him for having drawn her into so
imprudent a marriage, and for the hardships of her lot. Logan, who was
weary and careworn, and had suffered many privations with the
struggling army during the disastrous spring campaign, was in no mood
to endure patiently Mary's tears and upbraidings. Hard words were
exchanged, and he took his leave after but a partial reconciliation.
She never saw him again. Late in June, she received tidings of his
death on the battlefield at Monmouth. The comrade who brought this
tidings was by Logan's side when he fell, had received his last
messages, and brought Mary a letter from Logan, written the night
before the battle. In this letter Logan acknowledged that he had
wronged Mary, asked her forgiveness, and promised that if his life was
spared he would try to atone to her and to their little son for all the
wrong, assuring her that in spite of everything all the love of his
heart was hers and their babe's. He also urged her to find refuge until
the war was over with her sister Frances at Lawsonville.

Mary wrote Frances, telling of her sad plight, and asking shelter for
herself and her babe. Richard Dudley could not come for Mary, but he
sent a trusty messenger with money for her journey; and he assured her
of a loving welcome and a home for herself and her boy.

She left Morristown at once, and on her way to Virginia, she stopped at
Philadelphia. While there, she learned of a young woman in that city
claiming to be the widow of a soldier, John Logan, who had been killed
at Monmouth Court-house. Mary, in great foreboding, went to see this
woman, who proved to be her cousin, Sarah Pepper. The two had heard
nothing of each other during the years that had elapsed since Mary had
quitted Chestnut Hall. Sarah was not penniless, but otherwise her
condition was as pitiable as Mary's. The story she told Mary was this:
She had first met John Logan in the summer of 1776. They fell in love
with one another; and on account of her father's opposition and his
threat of disinheritance if she did not renounce her lover, she and
Logan were secretly married on her seventeenth birthday, November 19,
1776, at the house of Samuel and Ellen Smith, tenants on the Pepper
estate. Her father was in Maryland at the time. The only one beside the
Smiths, who was pri