Mr. Ballin

Despite, you know, the risks here.

But when he got into the town center, I mean, all he could see was just chaos.

Many of the area's residents were out running around carrying trunks and bags and all their belongings like they were fleeing the area, much like Mr. Gleek's farmhand, Jean Leroux, had looked like he was doing.

However, it didn't take long for Mr. Gleek to hear what had happened, and it was not an attack by the Sioux.

Those people running around like maniacs, you know, fleeing the area.

They just hadn't heard the real story yet.

They were sort of operating like there was an attack coming.

So apparently, a group of American soldiers had been riding on a boat up the Minnesota River, and for some reason, they'd just gotten overly excited and began firing their guns repeatedly.

So those were gunshots.

And unfortunately, because they were gunshots, they completely

completely freaked out all the residents around the river because of this growing threat of the Sioux attacking.

But fortunately, at least in this case, there were no attacks.

This was just, you know, an unfortunate event.

And so after hearing this, Mr. Gleek went back to his farm to find John and tell him that, you

But when he got there, Jean still had not come back yet.

And when Mr. Gleek went into the woods to go look around for him, he couldn't find him.

Now, Mr. Gleek figured that Jean would eventually find out what happened, much like everybody else in town.

I mean, not everyone had the news yet.

And so at some point that day, he was bound to return.

But by the time night fell, Jean still had not come back.