CHAPTER XXVIII.

WHO HAD BEEN THERE——WHO HAD NOT.

General Gilliam’s Opinion about Taking the Modocs——Colonel Mason’s Opinion——Difference in Judgment——Another Discussion Going On——Colonel Greene Speaks——Colonel Tom Wright in Commissioners’ Tent——A Growl——Wager Offered——Proposition to Send Away Nine Hundred Soldiers——Waiting for the Warm Springs—— Desertion——Common Soldiers’ Opinion——They Want Peace—— Commissioners’ Cooking——Work Divided——Canby Enjoys a Joke—— “Don’t Throw Off on Bro. Dyer” 457