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A ROMANCE OF DOUBLE MOUNTAIN
Old Bill Higginson had the reputation of being very sudden, and there isn't the least doubt that he was sudden. He would be as sweet and mild as a southerly breeze in spring when the prairie begins to show what it can do in the way of flowers, and before any man could find out the shadow of a reason he was as bitter as a March norther with all his kindness curdled. In such cases he was apt to pull a gun on anyone, and it was only the fact that he was old, and as white-headed as young cotton, that he was not killed once a day at least.
Old Bill lived with his wife and daughter on a feeder of Double Mountain Creek, in the north-west of Texas.
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