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`` Why , Jedge , '' said he , `` fust off it di 'n' t look like we 'd ever git track of 'em at all . I cotched the trail at Portsmouth at last , and follered 'em back into Ohio . They was shore on the ` underground ' and bound for Canada , or leastways Chicago . I found 'em in a house ` way out in the country -- midnight it was when we got thar . I 'd summonsed the sher ' f and two constables to go ` long . Farm-house was a underground railway station all right , and the farmer showed fight . We was too much fer him , and we taken 'em out at last , but one of the constables got shot -- some one fired right through the winder at us .