CHAPTER XXIX.
A NARROW ESCAPE FROM MY ENEMIES.
During my absence in New York city, Lewis and his confederates were prophesying that I would never trouble them more, and shaking their heads quite ominously at the happy riddance.

One day, our hired man entered the house and inquired of my wife, when I was expected home.

She told him she did not know, having received no intelligence from me.

He assured her that a letter had been received by some one in the colony; that he had seen it, and had heard Mr.Lewis speak of conveying it to her,--but as it did not come, she gave it up, supposing some mistake had been made.

I had, however, written, naming the time when she might expect me; but no letter of mine reached her, during my long absence, for which she could not account.