The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1901-02-21

air thirty-three rooms, and windows
Lord, yer can hardly count 'em, but lei
me tell you, stranger, there air only one
glass window IN the hui house, the rest
air holes cut out with broad shutters,
and the hui house is plastered with mud.
and tell you what, it would make a
cyclone hustle to-Lord, stranger, look
therel they're comm shore, he whis-
pered, grasping Rhyan by the arm SO
hard that he came near crying aloud.
Hush, don't sIeak one word. but
watch. And they did look with all
their eyes and listen with all their ears.
Motionless they sat side by side. staring
straight before them, their pale faces
set with horror and what they saw was
this:
Inc moon was at its brightest she'd
olng It's pale, uncanny light over the
whole scene. About three hundred wards
from the house. rode eight men, four
ABREAST (you could even tell the color of
thelr horses) straight for the house, the
renee and gate forming no obstacle to
tneir silent, steady progress as they rode
right through them On they came nm
I'll within thirty feet of the gallery. then
they stopped. The one who appeared
TO be the leader put his hands to his
mouth us II calling, though the two awed
watchers heard no sound. AS if in re-
Spouse to the call, large portly man
emerged from the house and passed nv
thcm to the edge of the gallery. He
stood in the moonlight, his long wbite
night shirt that looked like a robe and
White hair plainly visible. He carried in
MS left hand Il dou ble- barreled oun
The leader of the horsemeu seemed 10 he
talking. emphasizing his words with ges-
lures. The old man moved as if angry
clrnching his hands and stampino tha
foor. AS quick as flash the leader If
tnr eight men, drew gun and fred.
straight at the old man. He threw IN
MS right hand to his breast and staggered
pack. but rallying his ebbing strenorb
he clotched his gun, his dying ewes filled |
Win herce hatred. and shot at the leader
VINO threw up both hands and fell from
MS morse. The old man dropped his gun
ana Tell to the floor. And as he did 50
uuwn from that dark room came a figure
all dressed in white, with long black hair
streaming out behind, and fell across the
oody OF the old man. At the same time
Two men sprang from their horses and
illlihg thelr leader from the ground
turned and fled. All this time there was
not sound to break the awful stiffness
!. was the same as a pantomine. The.
Stranger gasped and rubbed his ewes
MY 200. man, is that what you call n
Let us ge; out of here quick"
NO. you Jist sot STILL 1t is all over
now. And you have acted like man
nere' John, bring this man a strong
lr'nK OF toddy it is ruther irwin to the
nrrVes-guess III take some too" Now
you feel better, don't you"
Yes, but do tell me the meaning of
III this, said Mr.. Rhyan still CHASTITY
,aIe oJ
Wal you see, sir, that old man WAS
ny grandfather and this happenened
'eiore the wah. He had come from
cling hundreds of bales of cotton. and
lad brought his money home with him
II wagon. He trieS to bring it secretly.
Kings will, and banH Of outlaws came
ere to rob him. There were eight of
nem They rode up to the house and
alling the old man out, demanded his
honey and he swore If they got it, it
'ould be over his dead body. And at
lat the leader shot him. And the last
ct OF grandfather was to raise his gun .
nd shoot and, as it happened, he hit the
ader. And then he fell dead"
The woman, what of herr" asked
lie stranger with breathless interest.
wal, she was the old mans only =
lughter, she had been up in the dark n
om doctoring niger womar that Z
as whipped that day, and when she i
caro- the words and the shots, she came \
an down stairs, an fell across her Il
thers body. When they came to them r.
ey were both dead" y
NY God, what an awful tragedy \,
al did they get the robbers?" "
wal, sir, do you see that live oak "
'e down there? They hung all seven