The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1902-12-11
A BIT or BORDER JUSTICE.


n4eanest cTitter the Lord ever let live.
1 n bowed. she wasn't even cookbook
ing, but she was cutter than Z prairie
ocg and meaner than a hungry kiote
Driscou ana ne joined Higglnses troop
the same week, but they spit The COM
mand IN two and it was just our luck
+ get separate details, him up at Ojo
Calieate with the captain and me down
/ the river watching gang of Greaser
poachers.
'Terese was running a low-down honk-
atolk up at Caiente, and the Cap allowed
heI to run because her dive was always
q sure finish for smuggiers and outlaws
from both sides Of the river, and if he
kept pretty good watch on il he was sure
10 keep cases on Inc outlaws from up
stream, downstream and both republics
They'd been d good many killings in the
den, but the sheriff looked after them
all right, and US rangers never bothered
| about en-. Twas i free fight or row
over cards. but Terese always managed
= keep out O. such trouble.
= was riding the line one day down
near Sand Butte when Griffin hailed me.
he tod me that Driscoll. my old bunky,
was dead UP st Ojo CaHente. and that the
whole troop vas going after the woman.
Il was Terese done Il, and cur squad
sFas all ct headquarters Tor orders before
sUndawn. She lii out the minute she
knew what she L done, and it was dead
sue shed took 10 the timber, or crossed
the river. and having near sixteen hours
the start. her chance OF escaping looked
good. or course. 1 was wild 10 nail her.
but they sent me of all alone right back
toward Sand Butte. the unlikeliest trail
o. all Luck was with me, though, Tor l
found her trail about seven miles below
cur empty shack. where she walked out
of the shallow water and made for the
chaparral on the Mexican shore OF course
1 went after her-Te never paid atJen-
ton to the International law once we
We're out OF the settlements. Il was near
/ o'clock in the morning when l came
on her. doubling back toward Cliente on
a rock plateau that left no footprints
/ felt ike killing her the minute / seen
her pull gun, but ] didnt. just fetch
&c her q clip across the wrist with my
forty-fver. and she laid down and hol-
Tered.
Then it was miles to the empty shack
where we'd had oar camp. and [ made
her walk il. though I felt little mean
thinking that, after ali. size was a woman.
1 locked her up in the west room of the
cabin and told her q XIII her the first
break she made 10 get away Then
staked out my pony and sat down in the
II Conlight facing the shack and watched
ali night. She hOllered at me once or
twice TO fetch her some liquar but 1
as dead Ieery about giving her a crack
AZ me in the dark, SO I just let her holler
herself 10 sleep. About half Al hour be-
fore sun-up and pretty near dead for
sieep ! kicked at her door and told her
tc get ready for the road. she said all
right. and I passed her in a flask or
WHISKY I could hear her mumbling 20
herself while | was making cOf1ee. and
VIXEN | handed in her hunk Of bread and
ed, only her long hair was hanging down
ali around her. I locked her in again. set
my breakfast out front on q soap box.
and then stepped back in the shack 10
fetch my rife. When 1 got back 10 eat
/ seen a boy coming along toward the
shack, with his hands in his pockets, bare
fCot and pretty muddy and looking chill
&C up and miserable. lie was American
all right, and said he was going TO Ojo
Caliente to report more rustling. Some
Greasers. he said. had drove off his sheep
ara crossed the river below the Butte
I gave him some coffee and asked MIN
10 put the saddle on my horse and ride I
him down TO the river TO water. The
lid done 1t right handy I'll right, and
When he rode over the margin l went IN
ana told Terese to get hooked up quick
cEd come out. She never answered, and, !
guessing that she was going 10 sulk on
me, [ ripped out an oath and said I'd
give her five minutes 10 show up. and If /
she didn't Ia open her door and drag /
her out by the hair.
Then | went out TO get my horse, but 7
that darned kid hadn't showed up [
waited q few minutes and when he failed I
90 appear | commenced holiering for him
to hurry. He didn't answer. and then l f
was scared for sure / couldn't leave +
that house lest TeTese d make a break. !
and I guessed by now that ungrateful I
wheIp was baking out Of range on my /
bronx There was nothing for it but /
TO rout out the old gal, - told her 10 /
set ready I was about to yan5 her out, I
anyway. she never said word. so / got I
mad ripped open the door and went in. T
she was gone-c,e5n gOne, Is if shed /
Z cen old Neither Goose and had rode of /
or a Invisible broomstick. The window /
= IS omen and she whole room ransacked- /
rant out dead determined 20 shoot her +
Gown il she didn't come back. but she /
: asn't IN sight. The shack was right IL .
the middle % all cut doors; you could see
for miles up and down the dry bed Of /
the river and there wasn't enough tim {
Der to light "A pipe Ger miles. I seen the /
hoy-drat hiTn-lopiug away past sand 4
I.utte on ny horse, but there wasn't !
SIGN Of Ter, and the kid was too far gone 4
for q shot. felt d lit wigciy anu creepy
about it, but i went back into the shack.
-istenns and creeping like l was IN a
haunted house.
I'm the back room where I'd locked .
.hc old witch, I found all the floor covered (
With long. black hair. a lot o. women
legs. skirts. waist. et cetera. and then /
come near falling over, 1t Gawncd on me
as sudden as lghtning-she' cut off her
hair. Got into some o the old clothes IN
-te room. and slipped out the window
IN them few minutes between the tire
save her The coaee and set up ny own
grub OF the soap box.
Nice fsuriae2 Well. ? guess il was,
she'd even made puddle ont OF the cof-
e 50 as TO ruudiy 40 ner feet auo less
as 81 she'd been wading. then stopped
-oun1 and haBdef me that yarn about
ha sheep Ir Ia known her just q httle,
{ I'd ever seen her III daylight ! don't
hinK she couG-.l done II. 6ut she done
L all right ard ieft ne to foot IL an
he wa. back 10 O5o Caliente 70 give the
alarm.
And did Won ever got here" asked Cap
aiu McCarty. with q wink at Colonel
Hutchinson.
"Ch. wei. sge never brought her in-but.
PES. vse got her an right concluded Nor
.in he old ranger. with q quoer glitter
n his half-shut eyes. we rounded hey
"a -Eh1ie sang 81 Mexican r'sstiers
nto shack across the river md we lost
no nen doing i-
-Did sou take auy prisoners Mar
.a2" asked the colonel. softly.
$40. M urie1na-s reflected 1s1rVin.
.uttire of c1cw. we was 50 mad see
81 Guished en- an up rirar there, aura-
their shock and left the rest 20 tne
tzzarss Never even made ? renort on
II ives au invesion of 2IeXico
miled the ola chan. "aDd ve Thought k
tight annoy Can Higgins --Joha y Raj
cry.