g in one of the parlors.
This may have been the inducement which made Eliza insist upon going to
this house, but I doubt it.

For our stay at Saratoga, three or four days, was one wild revel. We
rode about, got drunk, went to the Lake, came back to the hotel, and
the second day we were there, Eliza sent her sister for a Presbyterian
minister, whose address she had somehow secured, and this minister came
to the hotel and married us. I presume I consented, I don't know, for I
was too much under the effect of liquor to know much of anything. I have
an indistinct recollection of some sort of a ceremony, and afterwards
Eliza showed me a certificate--no Troy affair, but a genuine document
signed by a minister residing in Saratoga, and witnessed by her sister
and some one in the hotel who had been called in. But the whole was like
a dream to me; it was the plot of an infamous woman to endeavor to make
herself respectable by means of a marriage, no matter to whom or how
that marriage was effected.

Meanwhile, the Montpelier papers had the whole story, one of them
publishing a glowing account of my elopement with Miss Gurnsey, and the
facts of our marriage at Saratoga was duly chronicled. This paper fell
into the hands of Miss Bradley, at Rutland, and as she claimed to be my
wife, and had parted with me only a little while before, when I went
out to peddle medicines and millinery, her feelings can be imagined. She
read the story and then aroused all Rutland. I had not been back from
Saratoga half an hour before I was arrested in the public house in
Montpelier and taken before a magistrate, on complaint of Miss Bradley,
of Rutland, that I was guilty of bigamy.

The examination was a long one, and as the facts which were then shown
appeared afterwards in my trial they need not be noted now. I had two
first-rate lawyers, but for all that, and with the plainest showing
that Margaret Bradley had no claim whatever to be considered my wife, I
was bound over in the sum of three thousand dollars to appear for
trial, and was sent to jail. There was a tremendous excitement about the
matter, and the whole town seemed interested.

To jail I went, Eliza going with me, and insisting upon staying; but the
jailer would not let her, nor was she permitted to visit me during my
entire stay there, at least she got in to see me but once. I made
every effort to get bail, but was unsuccessful. Eight long weary months
elapsed before my trial came on