CHAPTER VIII.
At Port William I had already become acquainted with a Bro.Hartman.

He had leased a saw-mill, and was running it, and I had bought lumber of him.

Having reached Port William, I went to Bro.

H.and said, "I want to obtain lodging of you to-night; but as I do not want to betray any man into trouble, I must first tell you what has befallen me." I then told him my mishap at Atchison, and said: "Now if you do not want to lodge such a man, please say so, and I will go somewhere else." He replied: "You shall lodge with me if it cost me every cent I am worth." He then went on to say that he had leased that mill of men who were very bitter, and very ultra in their views, and that they might be angry with him, and turn him out of the mill.

But at last he said: "There is Bro.
Oliphant living in the bluffs; he is under no such embarrassment," and Bro.