afterwards appear.

The betrothed pair (by this time Sergeant Campbell and Miss Bloomer
were engaged to be married) perceived the necessity of acting
promptly, and therefore they resolved to elope. An obstacle, however,
stood in the way of their doing so immediately. If the sergeant
abandoned his station, he would be pursued, arrested, and dealt with
as a deserter. Miss Bloomer, equal to the occasion, resolved to "buy
him off."

The discharge from the army being obtained, and the indispensable
arrangements for a long journey completed, the sergeant and his true
love secretly departed for Aberdeen, where they were united for better
and worse--not by a clergyman, but by a magistrate, before whom they
went and declared themselves to be husband and wife--a ceremony as
binding by the law of Scotland as if there had been regular
proclamation of banns, according to custom, in the parish church, and
they had been married by an ordained minister. In place of a new
marriage ring being placed on the bride's finger by the gallant
sergeant, he, at her request, put on the charmed ring, the magical
power of which she confessed could not be resisted.

Having shown the effect of Lucky Lightfoot's subtle art, we might take
leave of the subject; but as the career of Mrs. Campbell (Mr. Campbell
did not survive long) is peculiarly interesting, particularly in
connection with a class that has created no small stir on both sides
of the Atlantic, we shall pursue our narrative a little further.

The newly married couple, not considering themselves safe from pursuit
in the Granite City, posted south, and reached the Clyde in less than
twenty-four hours, where they secured a passage on board a vessel
bound for America.

As soon as Captain Bloomer heard of his daughter's elopement, his rage
could not be restrained. Arming himself with a brace of pistols, and
mounting his fleetest steed (and a valuable stud he had), he rode in
pursuit, stopping not before he reached Aberdeen. Not finding the
fugitives there, he hastened to Edinburgh, with the twofold object of
bringing back his daughter and shooting her companion in flight. After
diligent inquiry in the city, he obtained what he considered reliable
information that they had proceeded in the direction of the Borders,
to be married at Gretna Green, a village celebrated as a place where
many distinguished and obscure persons have been married by a
blacksmith. As the reader already knows, the of