s was mad when they heard all about it! They was 'most as
mad with me for being such a fool as they was with him for robbing me. But
they put me up to following of him, telling me if any one could run a man
to earth, it would be an injured woman. And they put up a pile for me, and
took my boxes out of quod, at the Hidalgo, and started me on my way to
'Frisco, for I knowed he had made for that port.

"And there I found out he had sailed in the _Eglea_ for New Orleans, and I
took the first steamer to that port. There I learned that he had stopped
at the St. Charles Hotel for a few days, and had then gone to Savannah.
Lord, what a chase I had! From Savannah to Mobile; from Mobile to Havana;
from Havana back to St. Francisco. And there I heard that he had sailed
for Baltimore!

"Well, I took passage on the _Blue Bird_, bound for Baltimore. There I
made the acquaintance of young Roland Bayard, the third mate, who was very
good to me. Well, we got to be such good friends that at last, one day, I
up and told him all my troubles. And when he heard the name of my rascally
husband:

"'Anglesea,' says he--'Angus Anglesea!' says he. 'Why, that's the man who
is staying with a neighbor of ours down in Maryland. My old aunt wrote to
me about him in the very last letter, which met me at 'Frisco.'

"And he took the letter out of his pocket and gave it to me to read, and,
sure as a gun, it was my fine colonel as the old aunty was writing about!
And I said to the young man as I must have been put on a false scent to be
running about among Southern ports, when he had gone North. And he said
there was no doubt in the world that the man himself had put me on the
false scent.

"Whether or no that was so, I thought it was very providential I had fell
in long o' this young mate, and we got to be fast friends. And we laid a
plot that we should say nothing about it, and he would take me to his
aunty's, and I should go by the name of my first husband, Wright, and lay
low and say nothing, for fear my colonel should find me out and run away
again before I could nab him.

"Well, we reached Baltimore early in this month, you know, and young
Bayard got leave and came home, fetching me along of him. And the fust
news as we heard when we got here was as my fine gentleman was gwine to be
married to a fine heiress.

"But Roland and I, we winked at each other, and never let on to a single
soul as I was the colonel's lawful wife. We thought we'd just