CHAPTER XXXIX.

Boggs Issues an order of Extermination--General Atchison's Threat Against the Tyrant--Avard Organizes the Danites--The Haun's Mill Massacre--Far West Besieged--Three Noble Ones Refuse to Desert their Friends--Colonel Hinkle's Base Treachery--"These are the Prisoners I Agreed to Deliver up"--A Court-martial Sentences Joseph and his Companions to Death--General Doniphan's Noble Action--Demoniac Deeds Enacted in Far West