Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1904-07-30

THE KNIFE SHOT PAST HIS HEAL
AND STUCK QuIVERING IN THE
OPPOSITE WALL
hundred acres of land. aud something
over for calico and linsey; and, con-
sidering the times and the country
may call yourself fairly we'll off.
Must | buy sixteen hundred acres
of land?"
Lincoln's eyes twinkled. losing for a
moment tn cir usual expression OF dark
/ blue usefulness. He was not much
older than the Canadian boy who
venerated him az an oracle. but he
had already begun to guide the desti-
| MES OF others
You'd better let your husband de-
eide that matter when you are older, =
| he answered, and while the words were
/ being spoken, Pedro Lorimer entered
| the tavern in whirl OF winter air.
4 He closed the outer door, made his
/ salutations with grace. and approached
| the table where the money counters
sat. Lincoln deliberately filed the
snake skin, tied its neck shut, and sat
with 1t In his large hands pleasantly
returning the visitors greeting The
tavern was free to all corners. Yet
Antywine at once stood up in front OF
Peggy, his blond head towering above
the swart arrival
What you do here, eb :? You drive
Shickshack around, so he die in the
drift When | see you to-day | think
| will throw you in the street! Go off
get some states hannex' to Cubal'
MY pretty fellow" returned Pedro
Lorimer. Il rode here through very
biting cold to see my young cousin.
shall now take charge of her"
Tell him I won't go with him.
Antywine," said Peggy.
The gentleman must understand
spoke Lincoln, that he cannot force
guardianship on a girl of Peggy's age
except by KIDNAPPING. We folks in New
Salem have not measured ourselves
with the great people in the world,
but we rather reckon that a New Or
leans gambler would make mighty
poor guardian"
The foreigners olive skin. chilled
by the cold from which he had just
entered. took swift greenisb pallor
He stepped forward kissing, and
snapped his fingers in Lincoln's face.
Aritywine was upon him like tiger.
dragging him to the door. throwing
him out into the snow, and shooting
the bolt behind him.
"Goodyl" Peggy exclaimed with pas
sionate approval
Ann put her hands to her eyes and
Lincoln laughed.
| Take care, Antywine."
The oiled paper of the window
through which Peggy had watched Ann
Rutledge from the hand-miil. was
slashed by knife. Antywine fiattened
himself against the door The knife
shot past his head and stuck Quiv-
ering In the opposite wall
IL New Salem folks had distrusted
this erratic and intermittent visitor
from the tirst, they quite made up
their minds about him when he dis
appeared once more after Shtckshack
funeral 1t became generally known
how he had followed that poor indian
to rob girl. The winter OF the deep
snow gave shut-in householders plenty
of time to talk. The fact that Pedro
Lorimer had been harbored at Clary' s
Grove added no sweetness to- his rep
utation. Some were afraid he would
come back and organize the wild spir'
It's there for any kind of local annex
alton which might strike hla FANCY
But the northern winter, from when
a tropical nature shrank, vest by with
out disturbance. IL Black Hawk had
stirred In tho northwest. he setued
down to await a better season. People
no longer rode in sleds over buried
stalk and -ridered fences. Vast white
frosted ioaves of prairies. and forests
standing knee-deep in snow, returned
to their natural aspect. Streams rar
brimful. and Rock Greek covered hal
the valley during the spring thaw
Peggy had plenty of chances to loar
her money at a high rate of interes
to impecunious people. with little pros
pect OF getting 1t back Lincoln sale
he was not a good adviser, for he ha'
failed at storekeeping. and made debt
which must cost him years OF hare
work. But II appeared to him that he
gold was safer in the saakeakin COLES
around his waist than IL would b
turned into anything else. until sh
could buy and hold land.
. Antywine and Peggy had gone bacl
to Sally's cabin But as the season ad
vanced and 1t was time to take up tn
work of surveying again. Antywln
consulted Lincoln.
, 81 have made up my mind.' he de