but he had "taken a shoot" to Rockford. They telegraphed to Dubuque, but
he had doubled down toward Galesburg. They telegraphed to Galesburg but
he had escaped into Iowa. Finally they sent, to every town on three
parallel lines of railroad in Iowa, a postal card with "Come Home!"
covering one side of it, and captured him somewhere about the middle of
the State, also in the middle of the greatest of all his campaigns. The
firm settled his expenses, but refused to deliver the goods, and hired
an extra lawyer or two to contest