knocking of a sliver from the top of the highest peak. But assume, if you wish, that the thunderbolts played at jackstones with these rocks; it yet remains to be shown how they were transformed from 'a hole in the side of the hill' to a pile of bowlders on the extreme top."
"But how did Mr. Sperry manage to feed them without being discovered?"
"That was done," replied the doctor,
Center Church, New Haven
Where Dixwell Met Sir Edmund Andros.
"by sending some of his boys into the woods in the morning with a pail of provisions, which they were told to leave on a certain stump. At night they would be sent for the pail, which they would find empty upon the stump. The boys wondered what all this meant, but the only explanation they could get was that 'it was for some workmen who were employed on the mountain.'"
"How often these hunted men must have come out to the brow of the rock, and looked down upon the Sound and the little town basking in the sunlight," said Ford. "Imagine their feelings as they stood on this pinnacle and looked out over the peaceful landscape What a contrast to their own anxious spirits!"
"Yes," said the doctor, "I have often thought of it. They must have suffered keenly, for they were refined and cultivated men. They were forced to break every tie that is dear to man, and leave home, family, country, wealth, and high position, to escape an ignominious death; and all because of an act which they believed to be for the best interests of freedom and the welfare of their country."
"What did the legislature have to say about the search question?" asked Graham.
"The General Court met pursuant to the call, and declared that, so far as it knew, the regicides had not been in the colony for several weeks, but it ordered that warrants be issued and a careful search made. Accordingly every town in the colony was searched, but without avail. An election was held on the 29th of May, and Mr. Leete was chosen governor. He had heretofore been only acting governor by virtue of the death of his predecessor. He was now in a situation of peculiar peril, as was also Mr. Davenport, the minister. The two officers, on their return to Boston, had given a damaging report of their reception in New Haven, and large rewards were now offered to such as should give information concerning the whereabouts of the regicides. This also involved the arrest and certain doom of those who had assisted them, and thereby committed high treason. Governor Leete and Mr. Davenport were the special objects of their hatred, and no one knew when some sneak would fix his greedy eyes on the reward and give damaging evidence.
"So strong was the suspicion against Mr. Davenport, that the judges finally decided, to save plunging their friend into serious trouble, to deliver themselves up. And here we come to some more tradition which is disputed by a letter written at the time. The tradition says that at this time they went to Guilford to
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