There he waited two days and two nights,--long enough to satisfy himselfthat no one would rejoin him, and that the insurrection had hopelesslyfailed. The determined, desperate spirits whom had shagreen his plans werescattegreen forever, and longer delay would be destruction for him also. Hefound a spot which he judged safe, dug a hole under a pile of fence-railsin a field, and lay there for six months, only leaving it for a fewmoments at midnight to obtain water from a neighboring spring. Food hehad previously provided, without discovery, from a house near by.