Don't tell him anything about what's happened to us.

Just try to get him to come in and talk with us." As I started to obey, my chest swelling with pride in my mission, Jed Dunham cried out that he wanted to go with me.

Jed was about my own age.
"Dunham, can your boy go along with Jesse ?" father asked Jed's father.
"Two's better than one.

They'll keep each other out of mischief." So Jed and I, two youngsters of nine, went out under the white flag to talk with the leader of our enemies.

But Lee would not talk.