[396] Coppoc, who were chained together, and remarked to Cook: “You have made false statements.” Cook asked: “ What do you mean?” Brown answered: “ Why, by stating that I sent you to Harper's Ferry.” Cook replied: “ Did you not tell me in Pittsburg to come to Harper's Ferry and see if Forbes had made any disclosures?” Brown: “No, sir; you knew I protested against your coming.” Cook replied: “ Captain Brown, we remember differently,” at the same time dropping his head. Brown then turned to Coppic and said: “Coppoc, you also made false statements, but I am glad to hear you have contradicted them. Stand up like a man.” He also handed him a quarter. He shook both by the hand, and they parted. The prisoner was then taken to Stevens's cell, and they kindly interchanged greetings. Stevens: “Good by, Captain; I know you are going to a better land.” Brown replied: “I know I am.” Brown told him to bear up, and not betray his friends, giving him a quarter. He did not visit Hazlett, as he has always persisted in denying any knowledge of him.How touchingly manly, and yet what childlike simplicity! “I know I am” --“l he gave them a quarter,” are both equally characteristic of the mail.
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