He and Mr.May had followed them, and he had crept under the cabin floor and listened, and they had seemed to be sleeping soundly.

So we all went to bed, but father slept with a revolver under his head, which Mr.May had insisted on lending him.

The next morning the South Carolinians went quietly on their journey.

We learned afterwards that they were on their way to lay out the town of Marysville, in Marshall County, and did not know that they were in the same neighborhood with Pardee Butler and Caleb May.
Father wrote an account of the Atchison mob, and took it to Lawrence to be published in the _Herald of Freedom._ The Congressional Committee summoned him to give his testimony.

While there, the Lawrence people gave him a pistol, and insisted that he must carry it.
Father told us how the Carolinians had sworn to kill him, when they heard his testimony before the Committee; and as soon as he heard they were coming back, after the destruction of Lawrence, he knew that he was in danger.