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banishment from Kingston, they found a walk to
the farm a very agreeable change from the daily monotony
of a duty which at first had caused much
spirited excitement but was soon rendered irksome
in the extreme by the numerous disappointments
they constantly experienced in the repeated failures
to capture the daring audacious and troublesome
brigand

Such a man as Martin the lineaments
of whose features and blandishment of whose manners
instantly portrayed a lively and generous
feeling for a woman in distress, whose education
comprehensive ideas and superiority of mind deserved
a better fate, The feelings thus so plainly
displayed in the countenance of the young Officer
at once convinced Mrs. Millis that a favourable
impression had been awakened that might hereafter
be of important service, from that moment
Martin became a constanct visitor and great favorite
deriving much pleasure during the bivoac
in listening to the history and various anecdotes
of this extraordinary woman one of which he
related to me as follows.

I shall never forget the quick flash of her eye
when questioned on the subject of a search being made
in her house by the sheriff's officers aided by some
militia - men relative to some papers. I believed she
scared a whole posse of native infantry headed by
a gallant subaltern where not having found the
documents required in her house, the Officer