I did just feel so glad to see
Rube was alive, that I hardly remembered that it warn't likely that
either he or I would be so long, for I did not for a moment expect
that he would make good his escape. The odds were too great against
it, especially in broad daylight. Even on horseback it would be
next to impossible. No one but Rube would have attempted such a
thing; but he never stopped to think about odds or chances when his
dander was up. In less than no time I heard a shot or two, then was
a silence for a time, then a shout of triumph. I knew it was all
over, and that Rube was taken again.
"He told me afterward that he had made a dash round to the stable,
where he had found seven or eight Mexicans looking after the
horses; that he had knocked down one or two who were in his way,
had leaped upon the nearest animal, and had made off at the top of
his speed, but that a dozen others were after him in an instant;
and seeing that he would be lassoed and thrown from his horse, he
had stopped and thrown up his arms in token of surrender. Rube's
hands were bound tightly behind him, and he was led back into the
room.
"He gave a loud laugh when he saw me: 'That was a boy's trick;
wasn't it, Seth? But I couldn't have helped it if I had been shot a
minute afterward.
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