easantly situated
where we were; I had a good and growing practice, and we had made many
friends; but this did not satisfy her; she had some property in her own
right, but her father was trustee of it, and he had hitherto kept it
away from her from spite at her love affair with me. But now she was to
be taken into favor again, and she represented to me that we could go
back and get her money, and that I could establish myself there as well
as anywhere; we could live well and happily among her friends and old
associations. These things were dinged in my ears day after day, till I
was sick of the very sound. I could see that she was bound, or, as the
Dutch doctor would have said, "bewitched" to go back, and at last, after
five happy months in Goshen, in an evil hour I consented to go home with
her.

CHAPTER V. HOW THE SCHEIMERS MADE ME SUFFER.

RETURN TO SCHEIMER--PEACE AND THEN PANDEMONIUM--FRIGHTFUL FAMILY
ROW--RUNNING FOR REFUGE--THE GANG AGAIN--ARREST AT MIDNIGHT--STRUGGLE
WITH MY CAPTORS--IN JAIL ONCE MORE--PUT IN IRONS--A HORRIBLE PRISON
BREAKING OUT--THE DUNGEON--SARAH'S BABY--CURIOUS COMPROMISES--OLD
SCHEIMER MY JAILER--SIGNING A BOND--FREE AGAIN--LAST WORDS FROM SARAH.

We went back to the Scheimer homestead and were favorably received.
There was no special enthusiasm over our return, no marked
demonstrations of delight; but they seemed glad to see us, and all the
unpleasant things of the past, if not forgotten, were tacitly ignored
on all sides. We passed a pleasant evening together in what seemed a
re-united family circle--one of the brothers only was absent--and next
morning we met cordially around the breakfast table. I really began to
think it was possible that all the old difficulties might be healed, and
that the pleasant picture Sarah painted, at Goshen, about settling down
happily in Pennsylvania, could be fully realized.

After breakfast I took a conveyance to go three or four miles to see a
man who owed me some money for medical services in his family, and was
away from Scheimer's three or four hours. During this brief absence I
could not help thinking with genuine satisfaction of the happiness Sarah
was experiencing in the gratification of her longing to return home
again. Surely, I thought, she must be happy now. No more homesickness,
and a full and complete reconciliation with her family; all the anger,
abuse, and blows forgotten or forgiven; she restored to her place in the
family; and