that he had gone to the railway station and bought a
first class ticket for the four o'clock express to London, and
afterward, when the train came up, he had mingled with the crowd getting
off and getting on, and so eluded observation, and had slipped away and
hidden himself in the thicket until dark, so as to make every one
concerned believe that he had gone off by the mail train alone to
London.

"Now he told her that they must trudge straight on ten miles north, to
take the train to Glasgow; so that while people were hunting for them in
the south, they would be safe in the north.

"As they walked on he told her that he wanted to get away from England
and see the world--the new world across the ocean. He had seen Europe
summer after summer, traveling with his father and mother on the
Continent. Now he wanted to see America; and asked her if she did not
also.

"She told him that she wanted to see every place that he wanted to see,
and to go everywhere he wanted to go, for that he was the only friend
she had in all the wide world.

"So they walked on for about three hours, and then, about two o'clock in
the morning, they reached the little railway station of Skelton. They
had to wait two hours for the parliamentary train, which came heavily
puffing in about five o'clock on that November morning.

"Young Whyte took second class tickets, and led his closely veiled
companion to her seat on the train. And they moved off.

"They reached Glasgow about ten o'clock the next day, and found that
there was a steamer bound for New York, to sail at noon. No time was to
be lost, so they both went to the agency together, represented
themselves as a newly married pair, and engaged the only stateroom to
be procured--which happened to be in the second cabin. Their tickets
were filled in with the names of Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Whyte--which indeed
constituted a legal marriage in Scotland, where a marriageable pair of
lovers have only to declare themselves man and wife, in the presence of
competent witnesses, to be as lawfully married as if the ceremony had
been performed by the Archbishop of Canterbury in his own cathedral.

"They took possession of their stateroom on the Caledonian, which sailed
at noon of the same day, and in due time arrived at New York.

"They spent two days at an uptown hotel, and then took the pretty
cottage at Harlem, in which they lived for several months. Ann's
boy-husband often told her that she grew pret