Little journeys in old New England . to theworld in the intervening time. Doctor Bana had been only deferringthe uncloaking of Robert Deborahs return to duty, he madethe culprit herself the bearer of a letter to 187 OLD IsTEW E:NrGLA:^rD ROOFTEEES General Patterson, which disclosed thesecret. The general, who was at West Point atthe time, treated her with all possible kind-ness, and commended her for her service,instead of punishing her, as she had he gave her a private apartment, andmade arrangements to have her safely con-ducted to Massachusetts. E^ot quite yet, ho
Little journeys in old New England . to theworld in the intervening time. Doctor Bana had been only deferringthe uncloaking of Robert Deborahs return to duty, he madethe culprit herself the bearer of a letter to 187 OLD IsTEW E:NrGLA:^rD ROOFTEEES General Patterson, which disclosed thesecret. The general, who was at West Point atthe time, treated her with all possible kind-ness, and commended her for her service,instead of punishing her, as she had he gave her a private apartment, andmade arrangements to have her safely con-ducted to Massachusetts. E^ot quite yet, however, did Deborahabandon her disguise. She passed the nextwinter with distant relatives under thename of her youngest brother. But shesoon resumed her proper name, and re-turned to her delighted family. After the war, she married BenjaminGannett, and the homestead in Sharon,where she lived for the rest of her life,is still standing, relics of her occupancy,her table and her Bible, being shown thereto-day to interested OLD ]NEw ei^gla:n^d rooftrees In 1802 she made a successful lecturingtour, during which she kept a very inter-esting diary, whick is still exhibited tothose interested by her great-granddaugh-ter, Mrs. Susan Moody. Her grave inSharon is carefully preserved, a street hasbeen named in her honour, and severalpatriotic societies have constituted hertheir principal deity. Certainly her storyis curious enough to entitle her to somedistinction. 189 THE KEDEEMED CAPTIVE X^F all the towns settled by English-r^ men in the midst of Indians, nonewas more thoroughly peaceful in itsaims and origin than Deerfield, in the oldPocumtuck Valley. Here under the gianttrees of the primeval forest the white-haired Eliot prayed, and beside the banksof the sluggish stream he gathered asnucleus for the town the roving savagesupon whom his gospel message had madea deep impression. Quite naturally, there-fore, the men of Pocumtuck were not dis-quieted by news of Indian trouble
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