Water—The Lady Passenger—Sympathy Extended—On Her Way to the Lava Beds—The Welcome Letter—Still Alive, but Handsome No Longer—The Battle for Water—The Fair-haired Boy—His Terrible Presentiment—Courage Triumphs—His Lost Messages to Friends—The Dread Reality—The Unexploded Shell does Execution—A Scalp Cut to Suit—The Indian Plays Squaw—He is Suspected and Numerously Scalped—Military Bombast—Mourning for the Dead—Remains of Canby and Thomas—The Stricken Parent—The Wife’s Disappointment and Anguish—The Modocs Withdraw—The Soldiers Deceived—They Surround Vacant Caves

522 CHAPTER XXXIII. MUSIC DON’T SOOTHE A SAVAGE—FIGHTING THE DEVIL WITH FIRE A FAILURE—“WE’LL BURY THE OLD MAN ALIVE.” Watching and Disappointment—Visit of Pia-noose to Meacham—Gen. Canby’s Remains in Portland, Oregon—Burial of Dr. Thomas—Burying a Leg—Col. Wright’s Opinion of the Modocs—Modocs in New Camp—Young Hovey’s Father Informed of his Death—Modocs Attack Gilliam’s Camp—“You can Play Dead, Old Man”—Scar-Face an Artillery Officer—The Gray-eyed Man—Proposition to Bury “The Old Man” Alive—Burial of Young Hovey—Extermination—Indian Sympathy with Capt. Jack—Warm Spring Messenger to Linkville—Another Disappointment for Mrs. Meacham—Twenty Chances in a hundred for Life—The Twenty Chances Win—Hope Dawns—Another Messenger Sent—Donald McKay in Camp—Reading News to Meacham—Fairchild’s Opinion of Oregon Press—Ferree’s Warning to Fairchild—His Reply—Gov. Grover Calls out Volunteers—Meacham’s Departure for Home—Storm on the Lake—Old Fields—A Sailor—Dr. Cabanis a Joker—Mrs. Meacham Watching the Boat—Her Thoughts—The Meeting—Ferree’s Introduction—Meacham on an Ambulance—Arrival at Linkville—Big-hearted Men—Soft Hand and a Whispered Prayer 543 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 CHAPTER XXXV. LAST HIDING-PLACE—HANGING-MACHINE UNTRIED—MODOC BUTCHERS OUTDONE. Vivid Account of the Surrender of the Modoc Chiefs—Butchery by “Brave Civilized” White Men—Oregon Laws—The White Butchers not Arrested—Men who have Political Influence—The Gallows—A Strange Sight to the Modocs—The Harmless Cannon—The Wails of Anguish—Legal Justice—The Most Bloody Hands Escape—The Courier’s Arrival—General Disappointment—A Summary of Scenes and Events 582 CHAPTER XXXVI. TAKING A SAFE LOOK AT A SUBDUED LION—POWER BEHIND BAYONETS—WEAKNESS IN CHAINS. A Fort Turned into a Court-House—The Prisoners at the Bar—Those Glittering Bayonets—The Prisoners Arraigned—The Trial Begins—A. B. Meacham in Court—Have the Prisoners no Counsel?—Schonchin and Capt. Jack—They Extend their Hands to Meacham—He Repels Them—The Reason for it—Meacham Advised by his Physician not to Appear as Prisoner’s Counsel—The Trial Goes On—Indian Testimony—They Seek to Shift the Responsibility—Capt. Jack not Himself; “He cannot Talk with Irons On.”—Hooker-Jim’s Weak Defence—The Modoc’s Attorney Arrives Too Late—The Most Guilty Modocs Escape Punishment—The Mistake of the Judge Advocate—The Finding of the Court—The Death Sentence 607 CHAPTER XXXVII. THE EXECUTION—THE ROYAL CHIEF OUT OF CHAINS.

Modocs in the Prison and Stockade—New Hanging-Machine—The Announcement of the Death Sentence—The Fallen Chief—His Speech—Boston Charley’s Speech—Schonchin’s—The Enraged Modocs—The Unfettered Traitors—Scar-faced Charley—A Solemn Scene and an Eloquent Prayer—A White Man in Tears over Red Men’s Sorrows—Once Proud, Now Humble—Thunder-bolt from a Clear Sky—Marble Tomb and Pearly Gate—Jumbled Theology—Whirling Tempest—Roaring Cannon—Lightning Flashing and Darkened Homes—Passing under the Cloud Alone—Anxious for a Good Seat—Six Graves—Boston has a Rare Privilege—Short Questions and Short Answers—More than Bogus could Stand—A Sheriff among Soldiers—State Rights—United States—A Big Offer for a Corpse—Under the Eye of Uncle Sam—The Prisoners Waiting for Marching Orders—The Command: “Come Forth”—Then and Now—Leaving Living Tombs for Permanent Homes—Solving the Problem of Six Graves and Four Coffins—In Sight of the Scaffold—Last in Crime—First to Mount the Ladder—The Chains Drop Off—Six Graves—Six Ropes—Six Prisoners—Four Coffins—Four Unfettered Convicts—Suspense Succeeds Certain Death—Last March—A Single Strand and a Gleaming Axe—On the Drop Waiting—Sitting on a Coffin Watching—Justice Making a Protest—Forty Millions of People Talking at Once—What They Say—The Problem Solved—Justice Surprised—The Last Prayer—The Drop—Calling the Modoc Roll—The Missing—Where They Are—Tragedy Ended 636 CHAPTER XXXVIII. THE TWO GIBBETS. Mementoes of the Horrid Butchery—A Nation’s Justice towards the Strong, and its Tyranny over the Weak—Grant’s Humane Policy—On Whom should the Blame Fall—The Answer—Witnesses Summoned to Prove the White Man’s Perfidy—O. C. Applegate—His Record of Bloody Deeds—Hon. J. W. Nesmith—His Intimate Acquaintance with Indian Affairs—His Unequivocal Testimony—Dr. Wm. C. McKay’s Testimony—General Harney Bears Witness to the Indian’s Good Faith—The Indians Not the Aggressors in the