Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1902-10-30


keep himself above all chance of sus-
picion. 1t was wonder to me how he
had done 1T SO long, and l told him So
] saying also that m.rvelled how / had
| escaped arrest.
"'T is simple enough" said he. ~
do but attend to my work as physic-
I ian. So enter all houses, even Clin-
tons, at all times, and I hear more
than any one has the least hint Of
What 1 10 for the cause is done here,
and always q visitor has some such rea-
(, son as YOU have now for coming. If he
/ is arrested and several have been" he
continued with a serious face, Il am
/ free, and never yet has man or woman
betrayed me by the slightest sign. Your
/ case is not so sure, and / have to tell
you that your episode with that man in
! the old burnt house was q bad blunder.
He is furious at YOU for that, or some
| thing else, and We're it not that his
4 work for Clinton is so secret that few
/, in this city know of it a t all--and only
because / was once treating Clinton
when he arrived and the news of his
work was out before they realized it
/ you would be in prison long ago. They
must keep the whole thing quiet, and
no doubt they are trying TO find your
4 reason for being here. Have more care
4 therefore for the rest of this day and
night-"and do not go out. l cannot
help you ii you are taken. You will
simply disappear. No public arrest, no
It execution, no trial for You, man. That
was why no force was sent TO arrest
You this morning. Now for the plan"
The plan was simple enough. An
opening had already been made in the
4 high board fence by the water The
boards could be taken out at mo-
ment's notice. We, Acton, Curtis and
l, We're 10 approach the garden IN a
j Loaf with some trusty oarsnan, proceed
through the hole in the fence, thence
through !, window into the rear of the
house. opened for us by an American
soldier, who had got himself employed
10y Arnold on the ground of desertion
A from our lines. Arnold himself was to
\ be taken out of his bed, gagged, put in
to d huge bag and carried out to the
boat. Thence To I'aulus' Hook across
\ the river, and into our lines.
II was simple plan and one that
would have worked as it has worked
before, but for fatality, that has more
to do with making history than thou
sands of great minds.
And SO at dusk left Low with long
shake of the hand and walked slowly
and carefully through the little streets
so muddy and marrow, SO foul with the
smell of the burnt houses and soaked
refuse that it sickened one in those
strangely hot and heavy days. Low
4 lived hard by the corner of Princess
and Broad Streets and directly oppo-
site the waste of ruins that no hand had
touched since three years before.
There in the novels. for they were
nothing better. burowed out of half
ruined houses, lived the scum of the
great town-the poor wretches who
"a he ,,ft 1,f <jf,y
and there We're thousands of them, as
there are in the rear OF any great camp
---Mno beset you as you strobe along the
marrow. crooked, filthy Streets
Thence i came to Mrs. Hodges. and
found Acton just returned again from
the neighborhood of No. 2 broadway.
where he had been anxiously watch
ing for Curtis. l told him that I
fancled i had a chance of catching
Hazeltine from something / had heard
by going UP to the top of the town
the more shame to me again that !
looked into his blue eyes and told him
the stoiy-but l cannot help 1t, no1
could | then. i was an affair of my
own and another and l could not share
it with him. SO that he agreed To wait
Tor Curtis till 10 o'clock, bringing him
on With him; but III he did not come
then, 10 follow me himself to Nauxhall
Gardens, fos | told MIN the place. I, In
turn, MAS to get back as soon as posi-
Die to his place In an angle of two
houses Where we watched for our anx-
iously expected friend.
set out and wandered along Broad
way to vesey street. and thence d,wr
that ilutidy and unleut thorouphfar re
among the burnt houses up I3arela,
street to the college. now a prison. ane
thence by Chambers street to yallxbal
ea1'uens There stot,ned and loolsar
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