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cause of Canadian freedom and American independence.

Sheltered under the laws of neutrality like
his confrere Johnson settled at French Creek so
Kelly established himself at Goosebay on the
American soil in one of the beautiful deep inlets
of the thousand islands immediately opposite to
Grenadier island situated on the British side.

There resided on this island Mrs. Millis
the widow of a Canadian farmer whose husband
had left her in the possession of a well cleared cultivated
farm. Kelly found it actually necessary
the better to carry on his deep schemes to have
a friend in whom he could repose the most implicit
confidence whose friendship might assist him in
his conspiracies, afford him shelter in the day of
difficulty, and the hour of need, Like Johnson he had
no daughter to assist him in faithful duty and obedient
service, still he felt the want of such a friend,
And where was such a friend to be found, but in the
possession of a female heart. One that would be
alive to all his interest and enter into all his plans
Could he find such a friend in the bosom and fidelity
of the widow Millis? He feared in answer to this question
that his own deformity and hideous countenance
would be a bar to his suit

The most superficial observer would at first
glance proclaim Kelly a bandit, In person he was
tall and though slight in make there was a firm and
sinewy toughness about his limbs.