DISAPPOINTMENT

took the place of exultation, and many retired with their bitter

conviction that the whole thing was a hoax. Twenty minutes for supper, but

more than three-fourths of that time had been spent by the writer in

interviewing the Mankato party, which had returned from the sanguinary

field.

From these he elicited the fact that four of the men were actually in the

hands of the Madelia people, and would be sent down in the morning.