The Irish standard., 1904-02-27

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AND LOOK OUT FEARFULLY FOR A
DREADED FACE"
hush penetrated even the horsehair,
and Peggy looked as Lincoln knocked
Red Clary flat beneath the chin of a
startled animal He fell against it's
hoofs, and being pulled into the clear
space by one OF his friends, lay still.
81 reckon said Lincoln, pulling his
own shirt collar wider open, and sitting
on the chest of drawers to breathe,
'he has the wind knocked out of
him"
"Goody!" Peggy's own cry of thanks
giving was the first sound heard by the
vanquished man. He sat up, blink
ing at those who had seen him
humbled.
Lincoln bent over until his body de-
scribed a right angle, and shook one
long horizontal arm at the unim-
paneled jury who would have to render
verdict in this first case which Yates
and he had associated themselves to
win. {"
"a boy" he painted, els like white
dress: soil him, and he can be washed
and made clean again. But a girl is
like a glass bottle: if you let her fall.
or throw her down and break her, she
is broken forever. Now, men, are you
determined to have this poor little
bottle destroyed?"
There is often speech where there is
no language heard; and Pedro Lorimer
knew he stood by himself from that
instant.
He spurred his horse toward Sticky
to seize the bat and break away with
it. But Antywine darted out of the
cabin and across the open space like
stroke of light, intercepting the
Spaniard. His eyes large with fever,
and his high features impassioned, he
had almost the beauty of an apparitlon.
AS the two encountered, Antywine
seized the horses bits and jerked it
to its launches. He and Pedro Lori
mer stared at each other. Before the
rider found his balance again Lincoln
asked with whimsical significance:
Boys, how would any of you like
to get up out of chill-and-fever, and
find all Clary's Grove helping q
stranger rob you of your own dear
gal?"
A sympathetic and sheepish grin
seemed to relax as much as could be
seen Of every rude face; and Pedro
Lorimer, throwing away :, caution.
spurred over Antywine. The boy fell,
and leaped up, understanding it was
a struggle for Peggy. A whirlpool OF
shouts and plunging horses, and men
scrambling to mount, drove all
watchers back. Even Redmond
Clary's voice was heard. denouncing
the man whose part he had taken. The
crowd that had come down New Salem
street seeking Lincoln went back driv-
ing Pedro Lorimer.
Mortified as New Salem people were
by threatened violence, they We're I'M
able to refrain from cheering. They
crowded to the chest of drawers, where.
left stranded as by stormy tide, sat
Peggy and Antywine. He held the hat
and snakesllin which Sticky Green
thrust into his keeping before following
the ebb. The pair chung together,
hearkening to no voices but their own,
as two robins escaping from some
peril of man, might have felicitated
and comfortcd each other. The air
was fresh like the breath of the sea
after hot land breeze has gone by.
Mounted all three upon the horse
from which Lincoln had flung Peggy tc
Antywine, Lincoln and Yates, and
Sticky filing its back from name tt
tail, made the best haste they could tc
the Sangamon. They stood at the tor
of the terraced bank while Pedro Lori
mer was rolled down in a barrel.
Three times, tradition has it, the
J unhappy wretch took his plunge, ant
came hobbing up like buoy. Their
Lincoln and Yates, and the cooling
! effect OF the water on those who hac
! him to pull out, succeeded in moderat
ing popular rage against him. He was
turned loose, and his horse whipped
in the direction of Springfield, witt
emphatic assurance that the barre
would be- kept for him, and il he eve
came back would be put to its final us'
as his floating coffin
Don Pedro Lorimer was never seer
again in that country. When Pagg.
and Antywine We're married and keep
ing house in their own cabin. she use:
sometimes to part her white curtain
at night, and LOOK out fearfnlly for ;
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curity become q. h. bit. and she love;
| efter cwhi,a to ts,l her Own story.
Yeats later the two who had steeret
her Observation-Disclosures Lincoln and Rich
md Yrtss--heGan to steer the dsstinie
Of y snr..;on and a state. and the Span
lard. u New Salem grew to experience
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