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Updated: May 20, 2025
Approaching the solitary gleam of light shining from the window of the watchman's house, they applied to him for shelter. "We are just off a long trip, and our dogs are played out," Emerson explained. "We'll pay well for a place to rest." "You can't stop here," said the fellow, gruffly. "Why not?" "I've got no room." "Is there a road-house near by?" "I don't know."
Whatever might be said, or, rather, whatever might be suspected, of Bailey's road-house for people did not run to wordy conjecture in this country it was known that it boasted a good cook, and this atoned for a catalogue of shortcomings. So it waxed popular among the hands of the big cattle ranges near-bye.
"You know perfectly well you had no right to bring me up here; to drag me into a row in your road-house. 'Hush it up!" he exclaimed hotly. This time his laugh was contemptuous and threatening. "I'll show you how I'll hush it up!" He moved quickly to the open window. "Stop!" commanded the woman. "You can't do that!" She ran to the door.
They might murder him for what he was doing, but not in time to save the exposure which would be brought to light on the morrow. The committee met at a road-house near the outskirts of the city, but only long enough to hear Yesler's facts and to appoint another meeting for three hours later at the offices of Eaton.
Fascinating road-houses of stucco walls curtained behind a profusion of clambering roses tempt one to pause and take his ease to the tinkle of guitars and mandolins. But Aunt Sarah and the girls, ever bent upon reaching the next cathedral with a stained glass window or the next dingy canvas of a saint sitting on a cloud, were scarcely amenable to the lure of road-house temptation.
Shepherd's Ferry is somewhat of a misnomer, for the water in the river was never over knee-deep to a horse, except during freshets. There may have been a ferry there once; but from my advent on the river there was nothing but a store, the keeper of which also conducted a road-house for the accommodation of travelers.
He has even imagined primitive carpenter shops and ovens and huts on these paths where the voyageurs must stop for repairs, food, and rest the precursors of garage, road-house, and hotel.
That the girl had killed herself was generally understood: that there had been a shooting, previous to her death, was also current. Eager report recalled and exaggerated the fact that she had been seen with Hal Surtaine at a dubious road-house some months previous.
Probably a majority of all the homesteads that have been taken up have been located that the trees on them might be cut down and hauled to town to be sold for fire-wood. A few miles away from the towns there are no homesteads, except perhaps on a well-travelled trail where a man has homesteaded a road-house.
Then perhaps a ride toward the beautiful northern sky would be proposed, whereupon three or four hansom or coupe loads would begin a journey that wound up through Central Park toward the northern light, but which never attained a point remoter than some suburban road-house, where sleepy cooks and bartenders would have to be routed out to collaborate toward breakfast.
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