The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1866-05-09

ticc; you refuse 7-how will public opin-
ion brand you p
l saw my mistake, and confessed it.
My companion was as femorseless as a
tiger. They paint justice blind; her
ministers are all too keen but this man
has no heart. lie could not comprehend
a scruplc; he despiscd sentiment or
fear if his newborn babe had stood
between himself and Jules Ingram, he
would have trampled him down. | COM
pared him only to blood hound at the
end of the scent; half dead with fatigue
as he was, his jaws were quivering now
the tracks of the game were fresh, the
smell of blood was in his nostr'ilsy he was
up and alert That night the trains on
the Grand Trunk Railway carried hand
bills to every riverside village; the Can
ada shore was closed against the forger as
securely as the American side had been.
Horse thieving was not less heinous than
murder, where live stock constituted the
sole riches of people, they would watch
for Jules Ingram like savagcs nourishing
a ueadcttd. He would have but three
alternatives ! to take to the forests, at
the peril of being devourcd by panthers !;
to drift upon the broad Ontario, and per-
ish by storm or hunger or TO follow the
current of the river among the Thousand
renowned isles, daring the passage of the
rapids, until overtaking some European
bound vessel in the Gulf, he might bid
farewell to the new world. slept little
during the night, and sought the quay an
hour before daybreak, that | might take
the first ferry for Cape Vincent. N1'he
steamer had not come in, and as the air
was very cool, rcscrtcd to the furnace of
tow-boat just firing up alongside the
wharf; the deck-hands were all gathered
at the windows, peerng in the darkness
toward the American shore.
"What are you expecting, boys?" l
asked
"Thc ashoshiashun fur the perterkton
of property in hosscs, said grimy cngin-
eer, "has gone off to the Island to burn
out hoss thief. They been a suspectin'
him for week tonight fellow from
Fort Erie brought positive proof. We
| are lOOhlIl Out lUT luC DldIC.
In few moments the sky in mid-hori-
zon lighted up ; The outlines of the Island
were revealed fickeringly; the shadows
Of flame were reflected across the broad,
dark current, and we soon made out a
black object advancing in the garc it
was the ferry-boat, and the first man to
step ashore was 1}allagan.
sour friend has escaped he said !;
che lett me curious paper by his lady,
who, unfortunately has no dwelling at
present, and l have given her shelter in
the Jail"
l took the note in my hands; the wri-
ting was clear and beautiful. as if cngra-
ved-'"ro the detective stopping at Cape
Vincent Il would respectfully suggest
that you are doing yourself and and me a
wrong, not to say injustice. If you
capture me you make, say, three thousand
dollars; give me fair play one week, and
will give myself hundred thousand
dollars and you twenty thousand. This
is an honest proposition; consider il /
know that Canada and the States are
alike shut to me, but l still live, ard
will never be taken alive. .--INGRAM."
My first contributions to the Canadian
journals were suggested by Balagan, and
appeared next morning They were in
tended to inhame public sentiment, and
related certain fables of Ingram's feats at
running stock out Of the colony. On the
same night every frcsidc, from Toronto
to Quebec was made acquainted with the
fugitives perSomk Vengeance was sworn
against him wherever two Doors met to-
gether. The farmer in the field kept one
eye upon the river; each canoe, barge,
smack or steamer were subjected to espion.
age; the whole frontier was hunting
down one man. We knew that he was
adrift in his bateau, for now and then
somebody would espy him for an instant
gliding along the edges Of bluffs, or soul
ling through fields of marine grass, or
vanishing behind woody cape or island.
Thrice he attempted to land, but the
country folks drove him back with exe-
crations. The dairymaid would not give
him cup of milk the Indians refused
him bread and fire; once some little
children turned his boat .adrift, but he
swan n stream and recovered it. Thus
friendless, hungry, and at bay, he moved
forever northward toward the cold gulf,
till having entered the romantic territory
Of the "Thousand Isles" we lost all
traces Of him. Our voyage through this
most picturesque of archipelagoes was
rendered thrice enhancing by the adven-
ture which had developed it. There are
said to be literally a thousand islands
clustering in the broad neck OF estuary of
the st. Lawrence. Many of them can
scarcely afford foothold to a bird Others
support a single miniature tree; sustain
huge masses Of rock, piled in fantastic
forms, and holding in their crevices the
palms of climbing vines; few are large
and heavy with turf aud woodlawn, and
are verdant as spring. A voyage among
them is Ike the reading of poem or the
passing Of dream one seems to be far
aloft in balloon, gazing at the diminished
land and sea; for were there but little
folks to inhabit these pigmy continents,
we should have Lilliputa indeed Here
in winter the drift.icc heaps up crags and