Seven Wives and Seven Prisons, page 79 by L. A. Abbott
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oved appearance and prospects, and hoped that my whole future career would be equally prosperous.
Nor did I forget to call up my friend in need and friend indeed in the toll-house at the bridge. I stayed three or four days in Windsor, finding it really a charming place, and I was almost sorry to leave it. But my only purpose in going there, that is to revisit the prison, was accomplished, and I started for New York, and went from there to Port Jervis, where I met my eldest son.
CHAPTER XII.
ATTEMPT TO KIDNAP SARAH SCHEIMER'S BOY.
STARTING TO SEE SARAH-THE LONG SEPARATION-WHAT I LEARNED ABOUT HER-HER DRUNKEN HUSBAND-CHANGE OF PLAN-A SUDDENLY-FORMED SCHEME-I FIND SARAH'S SON- THE FIRST INTERVIEW-RESOLVE TO KIDNAP THE BOY- REMONSTRANCES OF MY SON HENRY-THE ATTEMPT-A DESPERATE STRUGGLE-THE RESCUE-ARREST OF HENRY-MY FLIGHT INTO PENNSYLVANIA-SENDING ASSISTANCE TO MY SON-RETURN TO PORT JERVIS-BAILING HENRY-HIS RETURN TO BELVIDERE-HE IS BOUND OVER TO BE TRIED FOR KIDNAPPING-MY FOLLY.
After I had been in Port Jervis three or four days I matured a plan that had long been forcing in my mind, and that was, to try and see Sarah Scheimer once more, or at least to find out something about her and about our son. The boy, if he was living, must be about ten years of age. I had never seen him; nor, since the night when I was taken out of bed and carried to the Easton jail had I ever seen Sarah, or even heard from her, except by the message the Methodist minister brought to me from her the day after I was released from jail. In the long interval I had married the Newark widow, and had served a brief term in the New Jersey State prison for doing it; I had married Mary Gordon, in New Hampshire, and had run away, not only from her, but from constables and the prison in that state; the mock marriage with the Rutland woman at Troy, and the altogether too real marriage with the Montpelier milliner had followed; I had spent three