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Show Page 48 Chapter 8 Getting Even It is not known how strong Ann's feelings actually were for Rash before his death, whether she truly loved him. Ann was so wrapped up in her valley and in her chosen lifestyle she may not have been capable of unselfish love. She was, however, quite capable of marrying for reasons other than love, coldly calculated reasons, as she would prove a few years later. Whatever her true feelings for him, his murder turned Rash into a martyr in the eyes of Ann. She convinced herself she had been madly in love with him. It was therefore quite easy to work herself into a frenzy of hatred over his death. As an object of this hatred Ann chose Ora Haley and the Two Bar. Ann suspected Tom Horn had murdered Matt Rash. She also suspected that Ora Haley and the Snake River Stock Growers Association had hired Horn to do so. Ann didn't keep her suspicions to herself. She loudly proclaimed that Tom Horn had murdered her fiance. Ann reasoned that the Horn murders (Isom Dart had been shot from ambush a few months later) were committed, |
