WE FIND AN OUTFIT 



which he stuffed in his pocket without recounting. 

 We had bought for two hundred dollars an outfit 

 worth at least five hundred dollars. 



We soon had the six fine horses on board the 

 boat. Bill went up to the cabin to turn over the 

 money we had paid him. Soon the steamer's big 

 bell clanged, and just as the deck-hands were 

 about to pull in the gangplank, Bill came run- 

 ning out and turned and waved good-by to his 

 employers, who stood on the hurricane-deck. 



In the autumn of 1861 there was no railroad in 

 Kansas, and the nearest point to reach the cars 

 going east from Leavenworth would have been 

 Weston, six or eight miles above, on the Missouri 

 side of the river. The railroad from Saint Joseph 

 east was patrolled by Union soldiers, to protect 

 the bridges and keep it open for travel. 



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