The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1893-12-09
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A Resolution rhkt Remained Unchanged
70 tao End.

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10 tao End.
A. midnight there came asudden knock
ing at tho door OF the mountainesr'e cabin.
Who's tharr'
"open the door, Busbi hayc Ave men
with me, and it's no use for you to resist.
II we have TO ilra into the windows. some u
your family will DO Killed.
"rll come ont What ais 20 all any
n wayfD
"lt's FOR uoonshining, Bush
Hull I'm not skenrt OF TINT Yo all
would a.showcd more sense TO come by day.
light Rcub Bush hRin't been a-hidin from
nobody
A deputy United States marshal sud
posse on the one side. and the owner Of 20
acre farm on tho other There's a still
hidden away IN some gorge OF the noun
tain, but the marshaiis men have spent
/ days and days In q vain search. Some one
/ has given information that Reub Bush Is
3 rnocnshiner. however, aud he IL TO be car
ried of to isil III hope that 4 case may DO
worked up against him. Ia 70 minutes the
mountAineer Is ready to 20 with the posse
I He hatrays neither Indignation nor siir
/ prise His wife has few questions TO AJAX
3
( have been aroused from sleep, but they rub
/ their eyes and stare blaukly ut the officers
7 and utter no word
WHO all did IL, Reubtn. queries the wife
ia a whisper
Dan Meacheml / reckon T" no replies
Him went to town today on his mewl
Him's jest that oncry.p
They handcuff him aud hurry him away
The children drop back on their pillows
and fall asleep again, aud the woman blows
ont the candle and seeks her bed. Dan
Meanhem j. a constable at the crossroads
hamlet. three miles away. Thn woman
could recall two or three other cases Ia
which he was believed to be guilty Of Civ
ing Information, and as her heart hardened
she said aloud.
IF they all let Rsub 40 it win be all
right, butt they all put him in prison Dan
Meaehem shall die.n
There was no more thinking or wonder
ing or planning. She had eeid she would
do thus aud SO. Her resolution was un-
changeable. She hoped her husband would
return that day, but he did not Day.
passed, and at the end Of week neighbor
told her that the governments had case
against Reub and would hold him for
trial. She did not fling herself down and
weep. Her eyes were not even moist as
she turned to her children and said:
Children, yor pops gwine ter be shet
up 10 jail fur right smaI't while, and les
mousse to look fur him.
What's juil'p asked one in dreamy
way,
place fur pore folks who try to make
Twin. Scatter OIL 70 bed now, cause yo'r |
mann wants to think
She sat in front OF the log fire with her |
elbow on her knee and her chin ON her hand I
until they were fast asleep. Then she rose
up and reached down the long barrcled /
rifle from It's resting place on the deer
horns. IL twas loaded. She drew the charge,
wiped the barrel clean and reloaded Her
face had worn an expression Of sadness as
shn sat looking into the fire. She had no
sooner taken down the rife than danger.
GUS CLEAN came to her eyes, and she shut
her teeth so hard that her breathing was
labored
They all ar Rwine to hang to Rsub,"
she said rs she replaced the gnn, land to
morfer / II ambush Dan Meachem.D
That settled it, She was abed and asleep
20 minutes later In the morning she would
shoot the man who betrayed her husband
to the officers. Why nott An eye for in
eye had always been her maxim. or course
shewould shoot him. He no doubt expect.
ed her to do 70. She never slept mora
soundly than on this night. After break
fast next morning she said TO the children:
MANS gyipa tc the crossroads. Yo'
all lsia Keep the cabin while Pm gane.a
Dan Meaohena was hoeing corn In G field
halt mile from his house. At 10 o'clock,
as he reached the west end OF a r0,y aud
iesnAd on MS hoe 70 rest for o moment
tongue Of fame dnrted ont OF tn bushes, a
rife cracked, and the man Tell back dead
shot through the heert.
Y said would, and ! hev,D whispered
heub Bpsh'a wife az she stood un aid
looked over tho hazel bushes 1t The mar
lying on his back three rods Rway. @Dan
syes onery. HIM give Reuh up Him de.
served it
A. noon abe was home with her children.
They we're not observing children. or tiseg
would hnyc noticed her pale face and COM
pressed llp3 She bad work to do. but she
lAid y aside anu sat down on tho doorstcp
Yibh her Pipe She had shot a man. She
Wa waiting Tor rnen TO come and arrest I
aer fot The crime, She bad been seen on =
ne highway with the rifle on her shoulder.
md 10 Doubt ele would at once be suspect
d. Very WE'LL let them come d
IN hour before sunset al officer drove m. &
.Howdy, Mrs. Bnkhf 8
HowdY. TomF
{. GOT 70 30 WITH me far nhcotin Dave 4
y
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Sne pqt on her sunhonnet, reHlled and Il
lighted her pipe and waa ready The chill a
Item betrayed no curiosity asked no ones. g
Ions Az she followed the officer ont u
be wagon slie snld a
40 ~ sliet UP tho cabin Kn 60 over to Y
lncle dim's. They ali Is amine 10 hanr +,
o'r maui faF shogtin Dan Alsachem.p d,
Sbe climbed oyer tile wheel TO a seat on v
ne wagon aud was driven away. neyrr Y
nee Hiancing backward not word d h
ne man who was driving her TO her death. 81
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