The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-11-15
PEGGY O'NEAL
CONTINUED from Last Sundays News.
CHAPTER ".
THE JEW AND HIS SPANISH
SWORD.

THE JEW AND HIS SPANISH
SWORD.
Jin's s,lrnise of trouble of the brew
set fire to my feet. At the door Of
the card room 1 met Duff Green COM
ing out-Duff of the Oporto nose.
barely nodded; 1 could taste of insin-
eerity and suave false slyness on
the man as one smells secret fire in
house.
AS 1 pushed into the card room,
while it was we'll filled of folk. my
first glance revealed nothing to justi-
fy Jim's fears. There was Noah, truly;
and sitting with him that Kentucky
Yankee. the anxious Amos Kendall.
Isaac Hill, gray and thin, and linping
with his club-foot, was also about.
These were the Generals friends; there
was naught to anticipate of misun-
Outstanding with Noah from them.
And for all that, Jim was right; calm
as showed the surface, there ran an
undertow of conversation which flowed
for storm. Jim, who lived long among
fighting men on lighting ground, had
attained perhaps some sharpened sense
Tor the sign or sound of approaching
ana COulu IOtSLeIl II Nllllt yet Il
mile away.
Kendall was by Noahs side. and
Hill had paused at his elbow; yet 1t
was with neither of these he was en-
gagged. Against the corner of man
telpiece, and two PAGES from Noah,
leaned a young man of dissolute look.
His name ! learned was Catron, and
he came from Port Tobacco, a small
hamlet in the southern toe of Mary
land. Evidently Catron was of an up
per class in his country, as his dress,
and fine hands, smallish and unmarried
of toll, would give a signal. He had
been drinking, but seemed more vicious
than drunk.
Catron was doing the talking. and
with a manner of itself an insult SEEM
ed bent for alteration.
Don't cross the run of things"
warned Noah, in a whisper, as l mark
ed my advent by dropping a hand
upon his shoulder; 81 am glad you are
come; but don't interfere. Affairs go.
famously."
Willing to gain some insight to the
trend of traffic. l paused behind Noah's
chair.
THAT l should cross words" Catron
was saying, with a Jackson Jew does
not tell in favor of my responsibility.
1t is what one must look for. however,
when the beggars of politics are pro-
NOTED to the saddle"
Your epithet of jackson Jew" re-
sponded Noah, quietly, 81 take for my
self and am much fiattered thereby.
And you are also to remember there
are weapons other than words which
one may cross with me whenever ones
valor arouses to that pitch. jew yes!
my ancestors were poets, lawsivers-
they read the stars and collected the
wisdom and the learning of the world,
when the slant-skulled fore fathers of
IL
of sheepskin and club, ate their meat
raw and saved their fire to pray to-"
All this flowed from Noah in tones
modulate and sweet l began to Won
der at my fair-haired friend: not I'M
skilled in colloquy of this sort, it beat
upon me that Noah, himself was want
ing an encounter.
IF l We're to own my way" said
Catron, paying no heed to Noahs init
nation of a stone-age savagery as the
state of his forebears, IF l might have
my way. I'd exclude every shoe-lace
Jew from the country"
Doubtless; If you were to have but
your own way" purred Noah. And
yet, observe the injustice you pro-
pose The Jew is as much the Amerl-
can as you. My father fought for this
country; l have fought for it.: the
Jews found and gave one-third of that
money which won the Revolution. The
Jews wasted tHelr treasure ana tnelr
blood like water for independence, while
folks one wots of were filling the roles
Of Royalists and unfolding the hands
of the King"
There now fell out a deal of talk to
little purpose. / thought, and 1 was on
the tip of telling Noah so, when some
one from over my shoulder flung a re-
mark
You are he" said this man-his
name was Witherspoon, and he a CLAY
Kentuckian-"you are he" addressing
Noah, who had this country stricken
from the muster of Christian nations.
You caused the Bey of Tunis to make
the decision"
81 but caused the Bey to expound
our constitution" said Noah, looking
carelessly back at Witherspoon
While | was turning these last re-
marks in my mind, and gnawing the
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