t 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.

From Troy I went, first to Newburyport, Mass., where I had some
business, and where I remained a week, and then returned to Troy again.
Next I went to Bennington, Vt., to sell medicines and practice, and I
found enough to occupy me there for full two months. From Bennington to
Rutland, selling medicines on the way, and at Rutland I intended to stay
for some time. My oldest son was there well established in the medical
business, and I thought that both of us together might extend a wide
practice and make a great deal of money.

No doubt we might have done so, if I had minded my medical business
only, and had let matrimonial matters alone. I had just got rid of a
worthless woman in New Hampshire with a very narrow escape from State
prison. But, as my readers know by this time, all