Jim Lane came with them.

He remained _incognito_ a few days, and then threw off his disguise, and Capt.

Joe Cook was Jim Lane.

And now the old, hard rule of the law of Moses, "An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth," was again the law of Kansas.

It was, "You have robbed us, and we will rob you; you have subsisted yourselves upon us, and we will subsist ourselves on you; you have blockaded the Missouri River, and waylaid our freighting trains, and pillaged them of their freight, with intent to starve out the Free State people, and all that belongs to you and yours shall be free plunder to us." The places that had been fortified by this "Law and Order" militia were one by one stormed and the garrisons driven off.