to kill a mocking bird - chapter 15 One night some friends of Atticus come to the house to warn him that there may be some trouble when Tom Robinson is moved into the county jail the next day, but when Jem sees the group of men and hears them talking he is frightened because he thinks that these men have come after his father. The next night Atticus leaves to go to the jail to …showed first 75 words of 251 total…

…showed last 75 words of 251 total…in the mob of men and starts talking about the money troubles that their family had. Scout made the men so ashamed that they all turned around and left. Atticus was relieved, and so proud that his children wanted to try to help him when he was in trouble. When they were returning home they found out that the editor of the Maycomb Tribune had been watching the whole incident with a shotgun in hand.