They was shore on the 'underground' and bound for Canada, or leastways Chicago.

I found 'em in a house 'way out in the country--midnight it was when we got thar.

I'd summonsed the sher'f and two constables to go 'long.
Farm-house was a underground railway station all right, and the farmer showed fight.

We was too much fer him, and we taken 'em out at last, but one of the constables got shot--some one fired right through the winder at us.

This Lily gal was the wust of the lot, and I don't put it a-past her to 'a' done some of the shootin' herself.