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A few days later the party was at Grinnell, Iowa. According to the detailed account which J. B. Grinnell gives in his autobiography, Brown appeared on Saturday afternoon, stacked his arms in Grinnell's parlor and disposed of his people and horses partly in Grinnell's house and barn and partly at the hotel. In the evening Brown and Kagi addressed a large meeting in a public hall.
In company with Shields Green I obeyed the summons, and prompt to the hour we met the dear old man, with Kagi, his secretary, at the appointed place. Our meeting was in some sense a council of war. We spent the Saturday and succeeding Sunday in conference on the question, whether the desperate step should then be taken, or the old plan as already described should be carried out.
In the dead of winter he started North with some slaves and many horses, accompanied by Kagi and Gill, two of his faithful followers. In northern Kansas, where they were delayed by a swollen stream, a band of horsemen appeared to dispute their passage. Brown's party quickly mustered assistance and, giving chase to the enemy, took three prisoners with four horses as spoils of war.
At sunrise Kagi sent an urgent message to his Chief advising him that the Rifle Works could not be held in the face of an assault. He begged him to retreat across the Potomac at the earliest possible moment. Retreat was a word not in the old man's vocabulary. He sent Leary to reinforce him, with orders to hold the works.
"You'll find it a good one before the night's over," Stevens answered. When he attempted to move, a revolver at his breast still failed to convince him. "Go 'way, you boys, with your foolishness. It's a dark night, but I'm used to being scared!" It was not until Kagi gave him a rap over the head with his rifle that he sat down in amazement and wiped the sweat from his brow.
Who listened to me? Why should I listen to you?" "But, Kagig, my wife is gone!" "Hah!" "My daughter, Kagig!" "Hah! A third man thrust himself forward and thumped the butt of a long rifle on the floor. "They took my wife and two daughters before my very eyes, Kagig! It is no time for talking now you have talked already too much, Kagi, now prove yourself a man of deeds!
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