The woman got better day by day, and at the end of a week, the Chief,
fearful lest something might occur to mar his plans, sent a
detachment of armed policemen to arrest the Fenian emissaries and
capture the stores. In some way or another the men got wind of the
affair, and made their escape across the lines, leaving the poor
woman and her helpless babe alone and unprotected. The police
entered the house unopposed; they found there several dozen, muskets
and rifles, also about a hundred bayonets and five thousand rounds
of ball cartridge. The woman refused to give the slightest
information as to the names or identity of her companions; she said
she knew nothing about the arms contained in the boxes, that the
latter had been brought there by a strange man, and left in charge of
her husband, and that she had never seen them opened. As the men
were evidently by this time safe in Uncle Sam's dominions, the
police contented themselves with securing the ammunition, leaving
the woman to shift for herself. As I did not like the idea of
leaving her in the room alone and uncared for, I explained the
matter to the neighbors, who good-naturedly undertook to look after
her till she received money from her husband to pay her passage to
New York.
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