text:  It so happened (as I afterwards learned) that felony--_bloody_ felony--was at that very time busy at no great distance; that murder that arson in its direst character were stamping their first damnable characters on a province noted through ages for innocence and simple piety; that the first victim to rebellion was at that moment bleeding to death under the hands of those wearing the shapes of men; that victim innocent helpless and--a woman!! But of this in the course of my narrative