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JOSE. 41 through the bustling town. He found Green seated on the open veranda of the hotel, evidently expect- ing him. “Let us go to our room,” he said, and Baumann saw by the expression of his face that something unusual had transpired. “I am greatly annoyed, and the worst of it is ] cannot make up my mind what to do,” he continued, when they were alone. “ Just after you left this morning a Kickapoo Indian, from the village, a short distance above here on the river, called and demanded to see me, saying that he had come to warn me against trouble from two rebellious tribes who would probably molest all trains crossing the Missouri. The trouble had been caused by one of the Government’s agents, and the prospects of a peaceable solution of the difficulty were still remote. Iasked him who had sent him or asked him to deliver such a message and his answer was that “Iron Fist” had commanded him to warn the overland trains, which made the news reliable beyond dispute. I asked him who Iron Fist was, but all he could answer was, that every Kickapoo knew “Iron Fist,” but nothing more. I paid the Indian, though I could learn nothing addi- tional from him, and enjoined him not to give further circulation to the report, in order that my men may not be unnecessarily alarmed, dare devils though most of them may be; but Iam at a loss, now, to decide whether the news was invented to extort money from me, or whether it will be ad- visable to make extraordinary preparations for a possible attack, and if need be, postpune our de- parture.” He gazed inquiringly at his companion. “In a case like this [am certainly a poor coun- (El) Gomicbooks