The Press., 1915-07-21
town, 1 did not find him.

town, I did not find him.
 But one day I met person who told me that he had Knowledge of one Mer-
 ivale, who had set out northward to l engage in the trade of skins of wild
 animals. I was discouraged at this and began to think that I had been
 unwise in coming on so long a jour- ney to find a husband who did not think 1t worth his while to inform me | of his whereabouts. Moreover, my in-
 formant could not tell me what man. | ner of man this person was, and he
 might not be my husband after all.
 However. having come so far, re-
 solved to go further. I took passage | in a sloop bound for a trading post on | the west bank at the headwaters of Hudson's river. and reached it after a
 few days travel. At this trading port,
 which is now called Albany, I made inquiries for the Merivale l had fol-
 lowed so far, only to learn that he
 was out trapping wild animals for their skins.
 So l must needs wait for him to come in While I waited I received a letter that had been brought by one who had come in ship soon after l had left England and sent on to me at Albany, which informed me that it was believed my husband had been put on a ship by his enemies and sent to America, but the writer did not
 know for what port the vessel had sailed.
 I was now encouraged to believe that the man was looking for was my husband. though I could not under
 stand how he could have contented
 himself to engage in an occupation in-
 stead of returning to me or sending for
 me. And yet, while making living,
 he might have written for me to come
 to him.
 But this man for whom l waited did not return, and in time learned that
 he inhabited q trapper's cabin near town to the northward called Schenec- tady. where skins were brought in by
 the Indians. This town was not far distant, and I went over there with the next party that journeyed thither. A | and learned that trarper named Mer- ivale had built him a cabin on the bank across the Mohawk river, near the council grounds of the Indians.
 By this time I had learned much self reliance and, securing the loan of a boat, rowed myself across the river and directed my steps toward the cabin which had been pointed out to me from the opposite shore. As left the boat a man came out of the cabin and stood looking down at me. He did not have the appearance of my husband, but as he advanced toward me there was something in his walk that set my heart wildly beating. AS he came nearer I looked upon his fea- lures with view to noting If l had seen him before, but they were GOV. cred with thick beard and I could not be certain. When we came close together both stopped and peered into each others faces. I was about to fall backward in swoon when he sprang forward and caught me in his arms.
 He was my Jamie.
 Then and there he told somewhat of those things that had happened to him since we had parted.
 When he heard of my marriage he resolved to join those who were going to America and bury himself where ne would never again see me, and where he might make a more honorable liv- ing than on the road. From New York he had drifted to Albany and thence to a point nearer the grounds where furs were to be obtained.
 I had set out from England to seek my husband and had found lover whom I had discarded for that hus- band. And now I must return without either the husband or the lover. But Jamie knew what did not know. He had received information which con- cerned Us vitally. His cousin had not been sent to America, but had been made away with. Since Jamie was thus made the legal heir to the title and estates, which were entailed, Car bondale had hunted for him with a view to turning him over to the law to be dealt with as a highwayman. If he could secure his execution none would be left to dispute Carbondale's right to the property. But of all this Jamie had not heard till after his ar- rival in America.
 There is much to tell of how in due time Jamie and I were married, how returned to England and secured pardon for him from the king and how Jamie followed me and eventually, as a favor to me, his estates were return ! ed to him. But of this more at another l time. We both lived to see the Duke l of York as King James II. driven to | France, and William and Mary pro- claimed king and queen of England.