The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-06-07

1t like a man, ony cd see his face get kind
o. hard and Gght-hke whilo he was hAtenin /.
He asst a good many questions about Anen'
an when told him he was down tho rver,
he din't say nothin' more. On'y he went
down the river on the Creole Belle that trip.
ALLEN came aboard at Memphis, an as
soon as Young Hicks heerd he was aboard,
he hunted him up, an found him. as II hap
pened. in the barroom. 30 l seen the next
| chapter myself ,
-fhe youngster had nerve, all right. He
we're like his brother for that. He stepped
right up to Allen with his hand In his pocket.
an says;
but ! can't Aght foul. Pull your gum ".
looked kind O. surprised. natural enough,
but he didn't make no motion to draw, n
| all he says was
What are you ,goin' to kill me forY
But noticed that he was watchin' HICKS
like a cat.
Because you killed my brother; says
He'd ha' killed his man, too, u Allen
hadn't been so quick. but he jumped Tor ara
fired. That saved him. but tho bullet went
plumb through the head Of a Memphis
man that stood by. an he we're dead when
we picked him up. His name was John
Cahill, II ! reoolieot right an he d tiid
/
! We'll. young Hicks was wild He tried
| to shoot again but Allen was too much for
| him. He grappled him like wrestler, an
fore anybody knowed what was dom he
| got Hicks's gun away from him, an was
| holdin' him by his two wrists
IT you was older he said, I'd give you
all the satisfaction you want, but / can't
| fight with no boys
AN there want no disputin' that he was
dom the proper thing this time ANYHOW.
There was others come up. an Hicks was
arrested an tried for the KILN
| Everybody expected he'd be acquitted.
for, o course he hadn't no idee o KILN
| Cahill. an there want no Jury in Tennessee
them days as d hold him to blame for. tryin'
to kill Allen, but Cahill had lot o friends
in Memphis an they put it to him 80 hard
that he was sent up for four years. Allen
got away, 20 they couldn't get no testi-
mony out o him. but there want no trouble
| provin' the facts.
whole business when ] heer'd, about five
yesrs after. that Allen an Hicks had met
again in a gamblin house in New Orleans,
an they'd shot each other up pretty bad.
emptyin' hs gun an both on EN- 'pulin
knives when their guns was empty.
Allen got two bullets in his leg. an
walked lame for the rest Of his life, but
Hicks was hurt even worse. He was shot
s ess hG nof match ot Ssn in mad S
an 1t were two years after that afore he'd
! pulled up enough to get around.
THAT want all Of Il, neither. Feared
there was good many people, in the room
| interfere. ! don't just know why they
| should, for 'twan't the custom then. But
! Allen had a good many friends there that
| didn't want TO see him killed, an similar,
didn't want TO zee him kill Hicks, count
o. what had happened already.
/ AN them that interfered got the worst
| of it. The bullets went wild, most EN-,
an one man was killed an three or four
was hurt.
want no trial. Nobody made no com
| plant. an reckon the authorities thought
II were a case that might just as well be
let alone,
that he was goin' to live, purpose to do
what he'd started out to do. an the next
| time he wouldn't give no warpin', but
would shoot on sight. An Allen sent
| back word that 1t was all right. He'd
Would win the game. You see they was
both in the hospital an they couldn't
do nothin' more n send word.
well, that was the end OF it for two or
three years more, an I'd lost sight o, both
had died, an I hadn't seen Allen for long
II don't know as he a run away. exactly.
| but reckon he felt like he'd Just as soon
not run up against Hicks again, ! never
many Of his friends used 70 say \ bothered
him lot. en- likely it did. He were
fessional, an never heerd OF his shootin'
| nobody else.
Curious enough, the end come on the
old Creole Belle. l was still worktn' on
| her when Allen came aboard At Vicks-
burg one night, ! hadn't seen, nothin'
| OF him for 40 long t didn't reco 'nize him
when he stepped OF, the gang plank, but
there was man on board that had better
| eyes'n had
THAT were tall consumptive chap that
didn'tk now at all an no great wonder. seein'
a. how he were a husky lad O seventeen.
when aeen him. I'd been lookin' at him
| considerable ever since he got aboard at
New Orleans count o his pearin' to be on
the lookout all the time, like he was mon
| at rous nervous, but / hadn't no notion or
it's ben' Hugh Hicks.
But when Allen stepped on the gang
plank there was shot rang out f'om some
where's behind me, an Aliens hands went
UP in the air as he pitched forward into the
river. turned quick, but all as I saw
from his hip pocket didn't see no gun.
but all Of a sudden 1t come to me who he
| was. an | says:
Amt you Hugh Hicks?"
An he says Yes as cool as wet grass.
An then I understood
| well. 1t 'pesred nobody else had seen
seen nothin. Anyway, didn't say nothin'
! an there wa mt no suspicion O who d did
the trick. an that was all there was to IL.
Hicks went on up the river with us as
ward. I heer'd. though, that he died soon
| after he cot home.