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of the officials, for they allowed us to take possession 

 of the keg, and becoming more civil and communi- 

 cative, told us that either we must pay the money 

 claimed, or lose our baggage, or get two well-to-do 

 respectable citizens to go security for the amount. 

 The hotel proprietor and other gentlemen were 

 kind enough to do this for us, and the sheriffs then 

 condescended to give over our baggage and vacate 

 our rooms. The shouting and the riot went on all 

 night, and I am bound to say that I was not very 



sorry to leave S . The impression it made 



upon me was that it was not a nice place for a quiet 

 inoffensive man to live in, especially if he had any 

 property of any kind. Of course we then and there 

 discharged our scout. He applied to the officer 



commanding at S to pay his expenses back to 



Fort , which that officer politely declined to do, 



and our friend had to make his way back as best he 

 could. He lost his place, and that was the last I 

 heard of him. We subsequently heard that the 

 sheriff also came to an untimely end. It seems he 

 had a little unpleasantness with some gentleman of 

 the town, and, happening one night to see his friend 

 through a window seated with his back towards 

 him, and thinking that the opportunity of settling 

 the difference between them was too good to be 



