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41, and said, "I think it possible to save him." She immediately dressed him in her own attire, and in a few minutes he was transformed into the image of a female. Feeling myself somewhat relieved, I opened the front-door, and the supposed ladies passed out. The eyes of the infuriated tigers were fixed in the house, through the door, as this was the first opportunity they had had, consequently the women attracted no attention whatever, as it was a man they were in pursuit of. She took him a couple of miles in the country, and delivered him into the charge of our Conductors there. The same evening he took a free passage to Canada. When the warrant came, I was quite prepared for my house to be searched, which was done. They ran to and fro, and up and down stairs, like hungry wild beasts, and dashing about my chairs, sofa, &c. as though they were iron. I spake in a very commanding tone of voice, as I am told I can do when a little aroused. "Gentlemen, the law allows my house to be searched, when authorised as you are, but not to break my furniture, and the next man that dashes any article as that man did, (pointing to the the scoundrel), does it at his own risk,"—my babe, (eighteen months old), crying in my arms. This brought everything to a perfect stand still and dead silence: all their eyes were placed on me, and mine were