Does anyone know this short story?

[reneesrk]

I remember an english teacher when I was younger reading this to the class. The story was about a wife who was being held hostage by the enemy. They had rigged a musket to fire when her husband opened the door. The story goes, the wife hears the hoof beats of her husbands horse and fires the musket herself to warn him.

[kasie]

It sounds like The Highwayman by Noyes - but that's a poem not a short story.

[Whifflingpin]

It is certainly similar to The Highwayman, but is there not a story by O'Henry (or is it Ambrose Bierce?) that uses a similar device?

[togre]

I agree with kasie (though I would not have been able to provide the title or author). Wow brings back memories of my mom reading to my sister and I of Fair Bingen on the Rhine and the Children's Hour. Thanks for the nostalgia!