to the Governor for a pardon, which was promptly granted.  His next step was to procure a suitable home for her; and a worthy Quaker family in Pennsylvania, who were acquainted with all the circumstances, agreed to employ her as chambermaid and seamstress.  When it was all arranged, Friend Hopper went out to the Asylum to carry the news.  But fearful of exciting her too much, he talked upon indifferent subjects for a few minutes, and then asked if she would like to go into the city again to spend a fortnight with his family.  She replied, “Indeed I would.”  He promised to take her with him, and added, “Perhaps thou wilt stay longer than two weeks.”  At last, he said, “It may be that thou wilt not have to return here again.”  She sprang up instantly, and looking in his face with intense anxiety, exclaimed, “Am I pardoned? Am I pardoned?”

“Yes, thou art pardoned,” he replied; “and I have come to take thee home.”  She fell back into her seat, covered her face with her hands, and wept aloud.  Friend Hopper, describing this interview in a letter to a friend, says:  “It was the most affecting scene I ever witnessed.  Nothing could exceed the joy I felt at seeing this child of sorrow relieved from her sufferings, and restored to liberty.  I had seen this young and comely looking woman, who was endowed with more than common good sense, driven to the depths of despair by the intensity of her sufferings.  I had seen her a raving maniac.  Now, I saw her ’sitting and clothed in her right mind.’  I was a thousand times more than compensated for all the pains I had taken.  I had sympathized deeply with her sufferings, and I now partook largely of her joy.”

As her nerves were in a very excitable state, it was thought best that she should remain a few weeks under the superintendence of his daughter, Mrs. Gibbons, before she went to the home provided for her.  She was slightly unsettled at times, but was disposed to be industrious and cheerful.  Having earned a little money by her needle, the first use she made of it, was to buy a pair of vases for Friend Hopper; and proud and pleased she was, when she brought them home and presented them!  He always kept them on the parlor mantel-piece, and often told their history to people who called upon him.

When she had become perfectly calm and settled, he and his wife accompanied her to Pennsylvania, and saw her established among her new friends, who received her in the kindest manner.  A week after his return, he wrote to assure her that his interest in her had not abated.  In the course of the letter, he says:  “I need not tell thee how anxious I am that thou shouldst conduct so as to be a credit to thyself, and to those who have interested themselves in thy behalf.  I felt keenly at parting with thee, but I was comforted by the reflection that I had left thee with kind friends.  Confide in them upon all occasions, and do nothing without their advice.  Thy future happiness will depend very much upon thyself.  Never suffer thy mind to become excited.  Remember that kind friends were raised up for thee in the midst of all thy sorrows, and that they will always continue to be thy friends, if thou wilt be guided by their counsels.  Thou wert with us so long, that we feel toward thee like one of the family.  All join me in love to thee.”