CHAPTER XXXIV.

AMEN OUT OF TIME——FRIENDLY ADVICE FROM ENEMIES——BETRAYED.

Meacham at Ferree’s——Then and Now——Capt. Jack——Another Scene in the Hospital——Maybridge——Bunker Bildad——Modocs Impatient to be on the Warpath——Gen. Canby’s Remains in San Francisco——The Silver-haired Man in Iowa——The Warning against the Klamaths—— Old Father Jones and Brother Congar——The Misunderstanding—— Administering Saltpetre——Army Recruiting——Making Another Coffin——Meacham Again in Danger——Iowa Veteran Ready to Dose out Blue Pills——Location of Modocs——Reconnoissance Ordered—— Defeat of Thomas and Wright——Scenes of the Slaughter——Warm Springs to the Rescue——Cranston’s Death——Thirty-four Modocs Fighting Eighty Soldiers——Peace Commissioners not in the Way—— Lt. Harris’s Mother in Camp——Gen. Davis’s Report of the Fight—— Modocs Leave the Lava Beds——Dry Lake Battle——Modocs said to be Whipped for Once——Treason of Hooker Jim to Bogus——Gen. Davis’s Summary of Succeeding Events 562