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I spent two or three days very pleasantly in the great city of the West, meeting several of the gentlemen who had been out on the Sheridan hunt in September General Stager, Colonel Wilson, editor of the Journal; Mr. Sam Johnson, General Rucker and others by all of whom I was most cordially received and well entertained.
As for this yere Cherokee, he ain't stopped no more stages than I be. "'But you sees yourse'f, ma'am, you hasn't the slightest evidence tharof, says Enright, tryin' to soothe her down. "'I has, however, what's a mighty sight better than evidence, says Missis Rucker, 'an' that's my firm convictions. "'Well, see yere, says Cherokee, who's been listenin' all peaceful, 'let me in on this.
In that hot and stifling weather their tortures grew almost unbearable. One night Rucker, happening to want a night glass, left the deck for a moment to go below for it, and passing close to the sleepy sentry, he heard the same sounds which had aroused Duff's suspicions. After Ralph's rebuff the second mate had made no further attempt to have the thing investigated.
Rucker in his long drawl as he dropped himself over the corner of the counter, "looks like the Honorable Gid kinder fooled along and let Cupid shed a feather on him and then along come somebody trying to pick his posey for him and in course it het him up. You all 'pear to forget that old saying that it's all's a fair fight in love and war." "Yes, fight; that's the word!
This seemed like flying to me. I had seen plenty of railway tracks and trains in New York; but I had to come to Wisconsin to patronize one. I rode on, thinking little of this new experience, as I remember, so filled was I with the hate of John Rucker which almost made me forget my love for my mother. Perhaps the one was only the reverse side of the other. I had made up my mind what to do.
"The interest," said he, "of her only child in the estate of Mrs. Rucker." Then there recurred to my mind the words in my mother's last letter; that the money had been paid on the settlement of my father's estate, and that she and Rucker were coming out West to make a new start in life.
The breeze began to freshen and whip somewhat to the southwest. Duff went forward to where Gary and Rucker were trying to sight the loaded gun. "Shall I have the sheets trimmed, Captain Gary," he asked. Gary surveyed the mate from head to foot with cool insolence. Then he stamped his foot.
So he laughs sort o' ugly at Jack's bluff, an' allows he orders drinks without no wagers. "'An' then, Jack, he says, 'I wants you to come feed with me. I'll have Missis Rucker burn us up something right. "'I'll go you, says Jack, 'if it ain't nothin' but salt hoss. "'I'll fix you-all folks up a feed, says Missis Rucker, a heap grim, 'but you don't do no banquetin' in no dinin' room of mine.
"No, the camp don't do nothin'; the word gets passed 'round that old Rucker's gone prospectin' an' that he will recur in our midst whenever thar's a reg'lar roll-call. As for Missis Rucker, personal, from all we can jedge by lookin' on for thar's shore none of us who's that locoed we ups an' asks I don't reckon now she ever notices that Rucker's escaped.
"That would have been a little too much!" smiled Bennett. "It was takin' some risk to let him off as easy as we did. It isn't so long since the Vigilantes." "Oh, hell, we can handle that sort of trash now," snorted Webb. "Who was backing Mex, anyway?" asked Rowlee curiously. "Better ask who had it in for Rucker," suggested the fourth member of the group, a man who had not heretofore spoken.
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