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At the close of their talk, the visitors promised to do what they could to prevent the mobs from disturbing them, which promise they kept. The next day, June 22nd, Sheriff Gillium of Clay county came into camp. He also wanted to know what the camp was going to do. Joseph explained to him.
It was a page of my copy-book, when I used to take lessons with Rebecca. Replacing paper and glove, I closed up the sailor lad's coat. "Search his cap and moccasins!" I was mighty thankful, as you may guess, that other hands than mine found the tell-tale missive a badly writ letter addressed to "Captain Zechariah Gillium." Tearing it open, M. Radisson read with stormy lights agleam in his eyes.
Niel Gillium was there with his band of men in Indian costume, who whooped and yelled like true savages. On the evening of October 30th, a party of men came fresh from the awful massacre, at Haun's Mill, eager for more blood. Thus the town was surrounded, and as it seemed, doomed to destruction. The few brethren in Far West prepared to defend themselves as best they could.
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