Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1858-04-22


most starts from her blashing, sasterly embrace,
as he recognizes the daughter 81 Sir John John
son.
But where is Lizzie, the darling sister, who
was always the first to meet him on his return,
and whom he longed to introduce to his friend
and comrade? Every one says she was here a
friend who was spending someweeks with her,
and in whom says Major Thomas with mis-
chievous look, Frederick will find friend also
Search was volunteered for the fugitiyes, but
Frederick declared he would Ind them himself
and started on with a beating htart, half hop
ing half fearing, on his selfimposeA mission.
lIc entered tho garden, and @wlhed down a
winding path until he came to natural arbor
formed by the interlacing branches Of some old
trees, and where he shrewdly suspected the miss
ing girls would be found. A low murmur of
voices as lie ncared the spot proved that the
conjecture was right, and he stopped, urged by
an irresistible impulse to hear what they were
saying.
" Do not urge mo, Lizzie said a voice,
which his heart told him could only belong to
Mary Ellis. :" [ cannot join in the merry
making when it recalls all my fears only with
greater bitterness for the fate of Frederick; if
he were only here, how he would rejoice in his
brothers. happiness"
And in his own also," said Frederick dart
ing forward and catching Mary, who fell half
fainting into lis arms.
/ Poor Lizzie was quito cut out, and feeling
herself rather de trop, thought, aB she said,
that it would be best to save her : hugging'
till another time, and go and get bis supper,
and find out what it all means. A good many
jokes came of at Frederick s expense when he
came back at the end of half an hour without
Lizzie, but with the happy Mary Hllis hanging
on his arm. What long explanations had then
to be gono through; what tales of trightfnl ad-
venture and hairbreadth escapes, until the dawn
of morning made the lights grow dim and pale
Sir John johnson, the brutal flther of the
young wife, who now looked npon Major Tho
mas with such proud admiration, was dead
and the old hall, the scene of their first impris
onment, which the reader will remember was
destroyed, had been bestowed upon her hus
band as some reward for his services to hi
country.
1t is unnecessary to dwsll upon the happi
ness of the reunited family. Frederick and
Mary were married Of course, and the narrative
of his terrible experiences served to while away
many long winters evening iiFAfter years
In 1886 he was still living, well and hearty
and was chosen one of the electors of president
and vice president for his native State the
same year Major Thomas Sammons was return
ed as member Of Congress, and stopped on hi
way to Washington at the splendid residence o
the Surveyor General--the former friend anc
companion of Frederick in his hairbreadth es
cape from the Canadian fortress, and then the
husband Of brlght-eyed Lizzie Summons, anc
jointly the proprietor of brave sons and fail
daughters. These wero the fortunes of thC
of the Sammons family during the most excl
ting period of our countrys history, but o
those who suffered, not all resulted thus fOrtun
ately.