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We lingered in the e in low voices of the peril; and I was certainly amazed, so utterly unprepared was I to find such a town as Albany in danger fro the frontier

Still, had my own headquarters been in Albany, I should have considered it the proper place for Elsin; but under these ominous, unlooked-for conditions I dared not leave her here, even domiciled with some family of my acquaintance, as I had intended Indeed, I learned that the young patroon hi to arm his tenantry, and I knew that when Stephen Van Rensselaer took alar of a kill-deer plover

As far as I could see there was now nothing for Elsin but to go forith e irony of fate!--to Johnstown, perhaps to Butlersbury, the late residence of that ht upon her this dreadful trouble How great a trouble it ht prove to be I dared not yet consider, for the faint hope was ever in ht not stand the search of Tryon County's parish records--that the poor creature he had cast off ht not have been his mistress after all, but his wife Yes, I dared hope that he had lied, re what Mount and the Weasel toldsince deterht rened for four terrible years That, and the chance that I ht slay him if he appeared as he had threatened, were the two fixed ideas that persisted There was little certainty, however, in either case, for, as I say, the records, if extant, ed word, and, on the other hand, I was engaged by all laws of honor not to permit a private enmity to swerve me from my public duty Therefore, I could neither abandon all else to hunt him down if he appeared as he pro, unless the documents were close at hand

Perplexed, more than anxious, I went up-stairs and enteredopen, and, as I stepped forward to close it, I saw Elsin there, asleep on her bed, fingers doubled up in her rosy pal there sleep-flushed, face upturned, that azed Bitter doubts assailedand sent her north to Sir Frederick Haldih it meant a final separation for us--rather than risk the chances of ues, the violence which were so surely approaching I could do so still; it was not too late Colonel Willett would give !