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that night, & it hardly seems reasonable to suppose that if he had bee obliged to run for his life from the Capt.'s yard, & had been twice shot at, he would have been willing to stay so near the Capt.'s as my house is.

The next morning when I saw the Capt. I said something about Martin's being at my house & the Capt. told me he had sent him off for stealing, & had told him, if he did not leave the village, he would arrest  him, & prosecute him.  When I went back home, I told Martin that as the Capt. had sent him away for stealing he must go, & he did go, & left my yard and went out of the village.  That night, near midnight, the Capt. who had gone to bed. was aroused by a noise in his yard, & getting up, & taking his gun, he went out.  He saw, or thought he saw a man running from his house, towards mine & knowing that Martin had been at my house, but not knowing that he had gone, the Capt. (gun in hand,) & his new man John at once came over to my yard, thinking that the person seen must have been Martin trying to steal something.  They went at once to Anthony's house, which stands apart, but no one there but Anthony, & then went back.  No shot was fired however, even when the person was first seen. 

A few days afterwords, I again found Martin in my kitchen