CHAPTER XY. 
REDOUBLED EFFORTS FOR A NEW INVASION. 
May, the month of flowers, has come again. Sweet-scented, 
rose-colored verbenas are blooming side by side with a most deli¬ 
cate straw-colored flower. It grows in heads like the verbena, 
each separate flower being a little larger, and with serrated edge. 
The roses and pinks make the air heavy with their perfume. 
Since the taking of the prisoners to Lecompton, and the ill suc¬ 
cess of Salters in arresting any more, there have been a few days 
of quiet. 
On the second of May, the ladies of the Literary Charitable 
Association gave a social entertainment at the hotel. There were 
the old settlers of Lawrence, who had pitched their tents on Mt. 
Oread eighteen months before, mingling with the newly-arrived 
citizens, the commissioners and their suite. The evening passed 
merrily, and, to add to the pleasure of many, the prisoners at 
Lecompton arrived. Through the intervention of the soldiers, 
their guard, word had been sent to Lawrence, that the lives of 
the prisoners were in danger, and some of our prominent citizens 
went up in the morning to effect their release by giving bail. The 
soldiers were convinced, from the continual threats against* them, 
that there were intentions of foul play, and, against the wishes of 
the ruffians, they accompanied the prisoners half way to Lawrence. 
The returned men seemed to have the same feeling one wrnuld be 
likely to experience in escaping from a lion’s den, and were glad 
to receive again the kindly sympathies of their friends. Refresh¬ 
ments of cakes, fruits, and ice-cream, were brought in at a late 
hour, and some lovers of the dance were there. 
The outrages of the pro-slavery men are again becoming fre- 
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