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But already a part of Texas had been settled by adventurous Americans under Mexican grants and otherwise; and General Sam Houston, an adherent of the Slave Power, having become a leading spirit among them, fomented a revolution. In March, 1836, Texas, under his guidance, proclaimed herself a Republic independent of Mexico.
Like that. Ba'teese call heem, and he is here." Houston blinked. Then, in spite of his aching head, and the pain of the swollen, splint-laced arm he sat up in bed. "What kind of " "Old Ba'teese, he mus' joke," came quickly and seriously from the other man. "Ba'teese he is heem." "A doctor?" Slowly the big man nodded. Barry went on "I I didn't know. I thought you were just a trapper. I wondered "
Had it been Worthington, striving to reproduce the murder of Tom Langdon as he evidently had reconstructed it, experimenting with his experts in the safety of a different city, for points of evidence that would clinch the case against the accused man beyond all shadow of a doubt? Instinctively Houston felt that he just had heard an unwritten, unmentioned phase of his own murder case.
The whole process of drafting Negroes had to be held up until the government could find methods and places for assembling them. Then came Houston. In a moment the nation forgot the whole record of one of the most celebrated regiments in the United States Army and its splendid service in the Indian Wars and in the Philippines.
M'sieu Thayer, he is no good. So eet is not that. You know the way back? Bon good. Go to the cabin. Ba'teese will try to learn who eet is, this Blackburn." They parted, Ba'teese to lounge back into the tiny town, Houston to take the winding road which led back to the cabin.
As I lay, I was pierced by a bayonet through the shoulder, but I made no sign of life. After the execution, the camp followers came to rob the dead. A kind-hearted Mexican woman helped me to reach the river. I found a horse tied there, and I took it. I have been on the point of giving up life several times, but I met a man coming here with the news to Houston, and he helped me to hold out."
Houston seemed for a moment to be weighing the matter very deliberately. "Of course I could do it," he replied, "but it would involve considerable extra time and expense for me, and I would want extra compensation." "Oh, of course," responded Mr.
"Oh," said Rutherford, "now I understand; I've wondered what you ladies were so mysterious about all day; you've been holding secret sessions and making cabalistical signs to each other all the afternoon. Well, as this picnic is partly on my account, I'm sure I feel flattered and shall be delighted to attend. Houston, old boy, when can we look for you?"
From the first, Houston, recalling the wishes of his old leader, Andrew Jackson, sought annexation to the United States, and the debates over the question in Congress nearly disrupted the Union. For the North feared the effects of such a tremendous addition to slave territory, from which three or four states might be carved, and so destroy the balance of power between North and South.
One popular theory is that Miss Allen was in love with some one else; that her parents forced her into a brilliant marriage with Houston, which, however, she could not afterward endure; and that Houston, learning the facts, left her because he knew that her heart was not really his. But the evidence is all against this.
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