e," he answered. "I supposed you must have
guessed my intentions. I will speak with you about it again to-morrow."

So he went out, and left her stunned, but by no means beaten. And, from
that day a struggle began--if indeed it could be called a struggle,
where the one party had not the slightest comprehension of the
resistance of the other. At Christmas, Mary, by this time driven almost
frantic, heard of the arrival of Christian at Chester. They met by
Bailey's contrivance, and Mary came back home pledged to marry her hero.
Delay, however, was necessary. The marriage could not take place until
just before the Indians sailed for Canada, which would be in March, and
Mary could obtain delay, only by a kind of compromise. She made her
cousin himself the means of obtaining this, by reminding him that the
least he could do for her, was to give her time to reconcile herself to
so new an idea. He, not the least in love, and far from suspecting a
rival, asked that the marriage might be put off for three months. This
was all that was needed. On the night of the 16th March, Mary left home,
and travelled under Bailey's guidance to Liverpool. There Christian met
her. All had been arranged, and they were married, and started for
Ireland. After a week or two of honeymoon, they went to Queenstown, and
there joined the ship, which was carrying the rest of the party to
Quebec.

It was during the two or three weeks spent in Ireland, and still more
completely during the voyage, that all the fair fabric of the young
wife's delusions fell to pieces.

The truth of Bailey's history was very different from what he said of
himself. He had been long the disgrace and torment of his own relations
in the United States, and at last, after years of every kind of vice,
had been obliged to fly from his country under strong suspicions of
forgery. He went to the north, and for a year or two lived a wild life
full of adventure; during which he occupied himself diligently in
becoming acquainted with the Indian tribes, learning some of their
dialects, and trying by every means to ingratiate himself with them.
Probably at first, this was only for amusement, but after awhile, he
seems to have entertained the idea of making a profit of his new
associates. He soon found, however, that the more independent and
uncivilized tribes, though they might form the most piquant exhibition,
were too unmanageable for his purpose. He came down therefore to Canada,
to see