told me to be encouraged; that he
would be in the prison again in a few days, and he would see me. He then
went away.

I at once drew up a petition which my friend in the Senate circulated
in the legislature for signatures, and afterwards sent it to Newark,
securing some of the best names in that city. It was then returned to
me, and two weeks afterwards when the Governor came again to the prison
I presented it to him, and he put it in his pocket.

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. I honestly meant to make every effort to be so,
and on my stay to New York I made numberless vows for my own future
good behavior. I bound myself over, as it were, to keep the pace--my own
peace and quiet especially--and became my own surety. That I could not
have had a poorer bondsman, subsequent events proved to my sorrow. But I
started fairly, and meant to let l