ed them together into a bar about two feet in length.

"Not much to look at, is it?" said he; "but it is a crowbar, chisel,
hammer and wrench, all in one. It only took me two nights to cut into
your cell."

"And how did you know your way out in the dark?" I asked.

"Because I came in that way, and I always keep my eyes open. Hello!"

"What's the matter?" I asked, in some alarm, as he came to a sudden
halt.

"Nothing much," he answered; "only that I must leave you here. I don't
know where you are going, and I don't propose to let you know where I am
going. Besides, it is much harder to follow two than one, and there is
no use of us both being captured."

"Captured?" I repeated, in dismay. "Do you think the officers will
follow us?"

"Do I think so? I know they will."

I was so terrified that my teeth chattered, at this announcement, and he
noticed it.

"Don't get too scared, young one," he added, consolingly. "They won't
look for you half as much as they will for me. If you travel right
straight on, and keep out of their clutches for a week, you'll be safe."

"But I haven't done anything," I said, tremblingly.

"Oh, yes you have," said he, with a laugh. "You have broken jail, and
that means a year at least, if you're caught."

I was so overwhelmed at this dread piece of news that I could only lean
up against a convenient fence and stare at him.

"Come, come!" he cried, impatiently, "brace up! They haven't got you
yet. If you go straight through this cornfield you will strike a road
that will take you to Columbia. Good-by!"

Before I had time to reply, he had plunged into the woods on the right
of the road, and I was left alone.

I was terribly alarmed, and lost no time in making my way through the
cornfield; and when I found the road, I sped along it at a rapid gait.
Fear lent me wings, and I fancied every bush an officer.

It was a warm but pleasant night, and the moon was just rising.
I calculated that it must be about midnight, and I determined that I
would put many a mile between me and Lancaster before daybreak.

So I set off at a dog-trot, and I kept it up until I saw the sun rising
over the eastern hills.

By that time I must have gone about twenty miles, and I was completely
tired out, and very glad to crawl into the shelter of some neighboring
woods and lie down to rest.

Before I knew it I was asleep, and I did not awake until late in the
afternoon.

I was stiff and sore, and at the sa