Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1871-04-27

uen, hEt that the trans We're eNalmN
ed twenty or thirty miles out, in ems
/ the convict should have got IN at som
little station. 1t was supposed. how
ever, that although these precauuou
were taken, he was still ON the island,
as, from his wearing the prison dress,
1t would be SO difficult for him to cs
cape notice.
! did not see Mr.. Lewis all dal,
nor his wife bat, just at twilight, |
) was startled by the latter uonnng qui,
etIy into my lit;le kitchen, aud aSNln1
me for the milk. She was \ pretty
J looking young woman, wearing her
hair in short cu,is IT WAS fair han,
and she was I. too, quiet and shy II
her manner, speaking in . voice s.
low that | could scarcely hear her.1
She explained that her husband had,
unfortunately, taken a severe cold,
and would be obliged to keep his bee
for a day or So. OF course, | offered
any assistance III my power. Shl
thanked me, and went up stairs. /
When she had gone, | could do noths
M for the life OF me, for many MINI
ules, but SIT and think Of her; therS
was AN unaccouniablc feeling, quita
n certainty, of having known her b3
fore, although when OF where | coalt
not say. So strong and strange wal
this impression, that it was almost letE
nble to me, and rs | said, I conId
think of nothing else for Ion. limrl
However SHOOK the feeling oil ad
: last, and went about my work seeing
40 more OF my lodgcr or his " lie that
night
Il Robert, at the White Lion, told me
when he brought the supper beer,
that, although it was hu,hcd up as
? much as possible, yet it certaIIIy was
the 1tenlan who bad escaped, and
that il was one Of the m 81 desperate
aud ingenious escapes ever beard Of
" Not, ma'am,h he said. "as he
I"vr III any OF your Ingenious escapes,
don't believe IN "A uau doing NitlI
IA rusty nail, or two prougS OF a din
, nor fork, or sone such thing, IN tour
or five hours, What it wou i take a
couple Of smiths all day to do with a
basket Of tools. It's the wardrr>
m,,n,n and ,bny nah. ,hrs,.rxrnor.
that what 1t Is, ma'lm," TAl- va.
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