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He had just turned to leave the room when a messenger handed Sumner a telegram. Stuart paused to hear the message. "Bad news, Lieutenant." "What, sir?" "An attack has been made on the Southern settlement on the Pottawattomie." "A drunken fight " "No. Wilkinson, the member of the Legislature from Miami County, was taken from his house in the night and murdered."
They had heard of the stealing of the oxen, the horses, the mules, the wagons. They had also heard of the murder of David Cruise. Brown had denied the Pottawattomie crimes and they had believed him. This murder he could not deny. They had not yet reached the point of justifying murder in an unlawful rescue.
The biggest event in the history of Kansas was the deed on the Pottawattomie. In the fierce political campaign that was in progress its effects had been neutralized by denials. Brown had denied his guilt on every occasion. Yet as they studied his strange personality more than one member of the Committee began to suspect him as the only man in the West capable of the act.
The experiences of 1894, '5 and '6 gave me a distaste really a disgust with public life I felt that I would never enter a large city again. I sought retirement in a country parish; this was secured for me by my friend, the president of Tabor College, the Rev. Richard Cecil Hughes. It was in a small town in Iowa Avoca in Pottawattomie County; I stayed there a year.
"What are you going to do?" she fairly screamed in his face. "That is not for your ears, woman," was the stern answer. "I have important business with Southern settlers on the Pottawattomie to-night." The woman's intuition saw in a flash the hideous tragedy. With a cry of anguish she threw her arms around her husband's neck, sobbing.
"Captain Heald desires his company upon an immediate mission to the Pottawattomie camp." "Oh, is that all? Well, Captain de Croix will hardly be found sufficiently recovered from his late adventure to enter upon another one so early. 'T is in my thought he either sleeps or is prinking himself for more pleasant conquests. But why worry him?
As I bent forward to catch the gleam of it in the flames, a new figure suddenly flitted past our narrow vista, between us and the wild circle of dancers. It was a woman, attired in fanciful Indian dress; but surely no Pottawattomie squaw ever possessed so graceful a carriage, or bore so clear a face. "Captain!" I ejaculated eagerly.
Gomo turned and looked about him upon the expectant warriors; and, as if the glance was an invitation to free speech, one sitting half-way across the circle asked gruffly: "Why you pour out rum, if you love Pottawattomie?" "Because I am only the White Chief at Dearborn," returned Heald, facing the questioner, "and, like Peesotum who asks, have higher chiefs elsewhere whom I must obey.
He and I were there alone; and the stars bursting through the clouds gave me faint view of him, and of those dark, silent forms that lined the shore where they had fallen. A chief, a Pottawattomie, this much I knew even in that hasty shrouded glance.
Yet they are terribly alarmed at the Fort, and I fear with cause. Even Mr. Kinzie feels the situation to be critical. There were fully three hundred Pottawattomie warriors encamped without the Fort two days ago; and they were becoming bold and impudent, one chief even firing his gun in Captain Heald's office, thinking to frighten him into furnishing them with liquor." "But the Fort is strong?"
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