[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] name, too, of ill omen as connected with this affair] but as she had dropped down the river, and he found he could not be conveyed to her, he spent the day in-solitude and concealment. The possibilities of his situation must have occurred to his mind in that lonely chamber, and awakened thoughts that were not conducive to repose. Late in the afternoon of Friday, the 22*\, a little before sunset, Smith started from his house with Andre in disguise, and with a negro servant, for King's Ferrjj The distance wits about two and a half miles to the north. Here they crossed to Verplanck's Point, arriving there in the dusk of the evening. Thence they traveled on together in a northeasterly direction until near Cronipond, about eight miles from Ver-planck's Point. There, between eight and nine o'clock in the evening, they were hailed by the senti-nel of a patrolling party under Captain Boyd. The captain was disagreeably inquisitive, but after a good ileal oftrouble they were finally allowed to go on. or to go-back a short distance to Andreas Miller's, and stay all night. They decided to do the latter, ami on reselling the house late, Smith and Andre were both sent to sleep in the same bed. Smith afterwards said that Andre had a very restless night. He could not sleep himself, and his wakefulness and tossing about would not let Smith sleep. It was not strange! On Saturday morning, September 23d, they took an early departure.