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with me at the time, and I kne x the few spec- 

 tators to be very reckless and predjiidiced 

 against me. I have sent for my family to 

 meet me at Lakin, and they will be there to- 

 morrow or the next day, and I have been 

 thinking that the otiicers may follow them and 

 trace me out in that way. Now, what I want 

 to know of you is this: Do you blame me 

 for using my knife on him, and w411 you do 

 anything against me? " 



''No," said I, '4 do not blame you at all, 

 if it is the way 3-ou say, and will be glad to 

 help you if I can. So if you have anything 

 you wish me to do, let me hear it." 



''I have nothing for you to do at present," 

 said he, "except that when we go in to the 

 Station, you go in first and find out if there are 

 any strangers in town, and if they are from 

 Ft. Scott, or that vicinity. If there are, I 

 want you to pry around and find out what 

 their business is, and report to me; if you find 

 my family already there you can tell them 

 how it is, and let me know as soon as 3'ou can 

 see how the land lays." 



