don’t move for your life! It may be here, in the hallway!—”

had reached that point. I at once sent to the upper landing, distant

about six miles, to make inquiry in regard to the matter, and in a,

little time my messenger returned with the information that the

family had reached that place the day before, and finding that we had

driven the hostiles off, continued their journey on foot toward my

camp, from which point they expected to go by steamer down the river

Their non-arrival aroused in me suspicions of foul play, so with all

the men I could spare, and accompanied by Lieutenant William T.