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"To-morrow evening Moonshiners' engagements please," said Katherine briskly. "Class supper committee meets to see about caterers," cried Babe. "We can't put it off either. Last year's class has engaged Cuyler's already, the pills! That committee takes out me and Nita and Alice Waite." "Rehearsal of the carnival dance in the play," added Babbie promptly, "and Jessica, alias me, has to go."
The gang were not only moonshiners but horse and cattle thieves. Slade was the ringleader and brains of the gang, while Cochise and his followers were the crafty and probably murderous rustlers and brand-blotters. Farley was a more or less willing accomplice. He may have been forced into the criminal partnership, but now refused to attempt an escape.
Nehemiah dared not protest nor seek to explain. He could invent no story that would not give the lie direct to his representations to the moonshiners. He felt that their eyes were upon him. He could only hope that his silence did not seem to them like denial and yet was not tantamount to confession in the esteem of his upbraider.
My information had been derived chiefly from my experience on various Election Committees, where moonshiners, mountain feuds, and double-barrelled shot guns played prominent parts. Commonwealths, like communities, are advertised most widely by the evils in their midst; a fact which jolts the reformer and drives the optimist to drink.
"If we were down South I'd say 'moonshiners," said Elliott, "but the beautiful objection to that is, that we aren't!" "It's some mystery to do with the Basin," said Bob, "and the whole countryside is 'on' except our boys. I don't believe California John knew a thing about it." "Didn't act so.
For this was indeed an Indian woman. A late day, certainly, for a captive among the Cherokees, but the moonshiners felt that they had scored a final victory when they left the little creature within the Qualla Boundary, the reservation where still lingers a remnant of that tribe, the "Eastern Band," on the North Carolina side of the Great Smoky Mountains, a quaint survival of ancient days amidst the twentieth century.
There were only eight of the marshals, and, even with four of our fellows, they still have to face nearly twenty of the moonshiners -and I'll wager that the moonshiners are all desperate fighters." "Oh, dear!" wailed Danny Grin. Bert Dodge's face was a study.
"When he's a no-'count varmint," said the woman, "without any especial warmth, a-traipsin' along of scalawags and moonshiners and a-layin' on his back pizen 'ith co'n whiskey, and a-pesterin' folks with a pack o' hungry, triflin' houn's to feed!"
No one looking into his kindly gray eyes would suspect that they belonged to one who had seen as hard and dangerous service in the Revenue Department as any man then living. In an easy, unassuming way he told me many stories of his own adventures among moonshiners and counterfeiters in the old days when these southern Appalachians fairly swarmed with desperate characters.
In a general way he knew that "moonshiner" is the term applied to men who try to cheat the United States Revenue Service by distilling liquors on which they pay no tax. Bert had heard that moonshiners are deadly men, indeed, and that they make little of shooting down the government officers who are sent to ferret out their hiding places and arrest them.
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