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Indian house about two o’clock, a. m., and, with oaths and curses 
which made the listener shudder, the posse attempted to sleep on 
the wet ground, while the occupants of the Jiack got some rest, 
although anxieties and suspense made sleep broken, and of little 
worth. Breakfast of fat bacon and corn bread could hardly be 
eaten. There was no way to wash their faces but in a brook 
near by, using handkerchiefs for towels. In the afternoon of that 
day they stopped a little time at a trading post on the Santa Fe 
road, and a pleasant house. Mrs. J. procured some medicine for 
her husband, and he felt somewhat recruited after an half hour’s 
sleep on the lounge. They reached Blue Jacket’s, at the crossing 
on the Wakarusa, towards night on Sunday the 18th, having been 
part of the night and nearly all the day reaching a point which 
might have easily been gained on the usually travelled road in 
five hours. They had supper there. From this place word was 
sent to the camp at Franklin of the arrival of the posse at Blue 
Jacket’s, and thirty men came down to meet them. The heavy 
rain of the Friday preceding had completely flooded the low 
grounds of the Wakarusa, and it is impossible to describe the 
ludicrous appearance of the newly-arrived escort, as they ploughed 
their way along, first knee-deep in water, then as deeply sinking 
in the heavy, deceitful mud. The party arrived at Franklin, and, 
as they halted before the log cabin, christened hotel, the gathered 
crowd, which the camp near by had emptied forth, was large and 
full of curiosity. Repeatedly the prisoners, still seated in the 
hack, heard their curiosity syllabled forth in “Which is Jenkins?” 
and “Is that Brown?” Their prying looks exceeded far the 
bounds of etiquette. The proposal was again made and urged 
that the ladies should sleep in the house; but their decisive reply, 
“ Accommodations which are good enough for our husbands are 
good enough for us,” settled the matter, and the hack, with its 
curtains lowered, again answered for a sleeping apartment. 
The prisoners with their wives went to the house when break¬ 
fast was read)-, with a strong guard of “guns” on all sides of 
them, themselves being the centre of a hollow square. A disturb¬ 
ance arose here among the guard, as to who should sit at the first 
