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Farmer Howe and his daughter spent a refreshing night at old Purley's tavern at Dunville, and at daybreak next morning, after a very early breakfast, they resumed their journey. And again, as usual, Lyon Berners consulted his map and his compass. He now found that his most direct route lay through a thick forest, between two mountain ridges.
T. E. Dunville, had made himself a great favourite with the gallery. The report concluded by calling attention once more to the fact that the salaries paid to the two eight hundred and seventy-five pounds a week each established a record in music-hall history on this side of the Atlantic.
Here he came upon the Welland Field Battery and Dunville Naval Brigade just referred to. Flushed with the victory of the morning, he was upon them like a whirlwind, and, in the twinkling of an eye sent them flying to cover in every direction.
They put up at this hamlet, which was called Dunville, and which boasted one tavern kept by an old Revolutionary pensioner called Purley. Here also Lyon Berners gave his name as Howe, and here again he and his wife were destined to be told all about the murder.
"Bob tell me: how was it that we were found out?" "Well, you see, Miss Ma'am when you were at Dunville, where you was said to have staid all night, there was a fellow there who had a habit for which he ought to be hung of looking through the key-holes and watching ladies when they thought themselves unseen. And this fellow saw you take off your red wig." "And so discovered and denounced me?"
In view of this, troops were being despatched against him from all points; while the tug Robb, black with artillery and men, came round from Dunville and patrolled the Niagara River between Fort Erie and Black Creek, under command of Capt. L. McCallum. This craft was manned by the Dunville Naval Brigade and the Welland Field Battery, under Capt.
Well, they didn't find you, Satan burn 'em! that's one comfort." "How was it that you found us?" "Oh, Miss Sybil Mrs. Berners, I should say we did it easy when we once had got the clue. We went first to Dunville to inquire after the gray-bearded man and his red-headed daughter, and we learned the road you had taken, and followed you from stage to stage until we got to Norfolk.
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