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to a house a little way from the road, and, as he stood before the 
fire, hearing their expressions of glee at the capture of some prom¬ 
inent free-state men, and their threats of soon lynching them, also 
ruminating upon his own chances of escape, he espied upon one of 
them a sign of membership of an odd-fellow’s lodge. He made 
to him the sign of distress, and, by the rules of the order, he was 
bound to protect him. This man at once interested himself. He 
said to the others, the examination of the prisoner must be pri¬ 
vate, and he must make it. The rest of the ruffians agreed to it, 
and, in a room by themselves, he took the papers in his hand, 
which the prisoner gave him, then returned them, and said, “ His 
life has been saved at his own peril.” 
This examination was made somewhat superficially, and with 
apologies. The next morning, through the interposition of this 
brother odd-fellow, the prisoner was released, the odd-fellow tak¬ 
ing his hand at parting, and asking his pardon. He said, also, 
“ Don’t think hard of me, brother. I have done all I could. You 
were in danger, and I had two duties to perform. I am a member 
of another order, and am bound to act, and dare not refuse. Nor 
do I want to. I am a border ruffian, nor am I ashamed of it. We 
shall have Kansas —- we won’t be cheated out of it. When they 
passed the Kansas bill, the pledge to us was that the South should 
have Kansas, and the North Nebraska; but the d—d emigrant 
aid societies, and other abolitionists, expect to cheat us out of it. 
But they can’t. We are going to have Kansas, if we wade to the 
knees in blood to get it.” 
After reaching Kansas city, our friend, in company with Mr. 
P., left for Lawrence. As it was impossible to go by Westport, 
they crossed the river about a mile from Kansas city, and came 
up the north side, thus being obliged to cross again at Lawrence. 
As they went into the ferry-boat, two men, whom they had seen 
hanging about the hotel at Kansas, were sitting on the bank. On 
seeing them, they arose and hastily took the direction towards 
Kansas city. The evident plan was to go back to Westport, and 
there get a crowd to intercept them as they should pass through 
the Delaware Deserve. By taking the Indian trails, now one, and 
then another, they reached a friendly mission-house, where an 
