The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1897-08-26

ssuser hsd tlfucE lts robn too go
3 ior hin.
! Wen see shout that 3 little later,
piled Smith. We've sol 10 get this lsit
> to Ciinton the 6rai hins vo do,
TWo we're left With the pritooer 81
! guard and the others soon rode ava
} For three days abd nights Montsgnie Il
to the hat. bound hsni and foot. Not Z,
} = moment we're the cord, loosened "a
esch day hs guard told bin they wei
about 10 take him ont and hang him al
lesye his body oa tree by the roadside 3
q warning TO Nil Nhiss The presohe
had ially resigned himself and eIpeete
daily the threat would be pat ilto cIecr
ton.
Os the iourth day Smith retur ed and
after hurried consultation rode sway. TIL
I prisoners hands we're loosed and his acl
ing limbs we're rubbed by the guard. bu
be hsd 90 o,her thought than that be wal
being prepared for bis sxecution. Accoyt
ingly when 10 a few hours he vas bidder
TO follow them ont Of the hat be glanced
on every side for the rope be thought tc
see dangling from some tree As he wslk
cd bis thoughts we're somewhat bitter
against Washington. Why bad he insist
cd upon bis coming through Ramapo
~ al IaT Ia IA 4
vice he would have taken the upper road
and nsyer would have fallen into the pow
er Of those desperadoes.
Can you rider said one one OF the men
abruptly.
Yes replied the preacher. We're they
about to mount him on q horse and then
start the horse of after the moose had
been sdjusied' He had heard OF that
plan having been used.
But he had no time for meditation. for
they came TO q place where three horses
we're waiting. Almost before he knew
what had occurred, the prisoner found
himself mounted aud riding rsI idly along
the road, with one guard on either side.
What could it meapp lie saw no rope
and not word was spoken. Ga sod on
they went aud gradually it dswned npon
the young mans mind what tho dostina
tiou was to be. Nor was be mistaken, for
be soon was carried across the river and
placed in the old Sugar House prison %
New York. one Of the famous provost
prisons Of that dsy,
You're great one, said the guard TO
Montsgnie the next day. Those letters
ron had we're all about Wsshington's plan
o attack New York. Bat Clinton can
axe hint and everybody In the city is
,etting ready to receive the robels. Then
le took from his pocket a copy OF Rylng
on's GtZ3tte, which contained long &C
ount OF bis capture, the nature OF the
dispatches be had carried and the use ST.
Henry was making OF the information NE
sd gsined.
Suddenly, es the guard flushed his
esdipe, Montague laughed aloud.
What are you laughing st' asked the
cry guard as he left, don't see any
hing funny 10 thstf
Bot the prisoner did. and oil bis bitter
ess toward Washington had vanished in
moment. Now he understood it oil.
Washington had intended oil the time to
ave him taken prisoner with tto1e dis 4,
atches co lis person and thus to hold
10 rrit sh 10 New Yor. viii he started
II Virginia
How we'll be held them we know from
10 fact that when Sir Henry next heard
bin be was already beyond the Della 8
are. too fsr away to be pursued and it
as too late TO send woid or aid to Corn
sllis. n
As for Psrson Montague, be was not u
ng Kept q pri oaer, for the war was soon
ded but for years it was bis delight to
II the story OF his capture. | had read .
'out The GREEKS holding the pass OF Z
nermopyae, be would say, aud keeping .
It the enemy; but ! kept the enemy 10 u
tilirg tc hold the pass at Rsmapo. I