The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1913-09-18

THE REVIEW, THURSDAY
the general
''He cuts up at timesY
"He's all right till he turns on you
and then you want to find shelter. Blu
| Miss Sallie-she's an angelr'
Look here, Bob. you're not in love
with her?''
"Well. I'm convalescing at present
Every boy in town has been there. bu
/ don't believe she cares snap fol
man Of us
did she jolt you hard when you hit
the ground?''
/ Easiest thing you ever saw. She
has q supreme genius for painless cru
city. When the time comes she can
| pull your eyetooth out in such a deli
tate, friendly way you will have to
swear she hasn't hurt you"
you still go?"
Lord. yes: we all do-sort of con-
gress of the lost meet down there.
They all hang on. She keeps the
friendship of every poor devil she
kills.
"You know you make the cold chills
run down my back when you talk like
that"
care you in love with her?"
ITO tell yu,; the truth | don't know
But be didn't go home until the end
Of the week. when the last cent of his
money was gene.
CHAPTER XIV.
~ ASTON found the preacher
q .ur quietly smoking. seated on the
AL rustic under giant oak that
stood in the corner of the
square.
Under this tree the speakers stand
had always been built for joint de-
bates in political campaigns.
Here. when u boy, he had heard the
great debate between Zebulon g.
Vance ard Judge Thomas Settle In the
fierce campaign which followed the
overthrow Of Legree when the Repuh-
lican party. under the leadership Of
Judge Settle. made it's desperate effort
for life. Settle. who was man or
masterful personality, eloquent, and
in dead earnest in his appeal for
new south, had made Z speech of great
power to ii crowd tl!At were hostile
to every iCe:! for which he stood: and
vet he dazz,eI or stunned them into
sullen silence.
And then he recalled with flashes Of
memory vivid as lightning the miracle
that had followed. He could see Vance
now as he slowly lifted his big lionlike
head. and calmly looked over the sea
Of faces with eagle eyes that could
flash with reSiStleSS humor or. blaze
with the fury Of elemental passion.
He reviewed the past in which he had
played the tragic role of their war
governor, aud tore into tatterS with the
facts of history the logic of his OppO-
nent. And then he opened his batter
les of wit and ridicule-wit that cut to
he hearts red blood. and yet convulsed
the nearer with its unexpected turn.
that withered and scorched
what it touched into ashes. Five thou
sand people now in breathless suspense
as he swung them into heaven on the
wings of deathless fwords, now scream
ing with laughter and now hushed in
tears.
The scene that followed this triumph!
Two stalwart mountain men Snatched
him from the rostrum and bore him on
their shoulders through the shouting,
crowd. Women pressed close
and kissed his hands, and old men
reached forward their hands to touch |
his garments. Tonight, as CASTOR |
walked under that tree with his heart |
beating with the ecstasy of a new
found source of life, he felt that he |
could do, and that he would do. what I
The master had done before him.
'Charlie, I've heard some startling |
news since you left home, and l can't |
sleep nights thinking about it,
you've heard of McLeod's scheme?"
Exactly. And it means the ruin Of |
his state and the ruin of the south
lnless it can be defeated"
"How are you going to do it?"
cts puzzle: but it's got to be done.
dalf the farmers in the strongholds Of
Democracy are crazy over their fool
and hundred other faker
ireams. Mcleod has promised them
subtreasury, pumpkin
caves for money-anything they want
f they will join forces with his mig
yers and carry the state. You are the
nan to begin now a quiet but thorough
of the young men and
,ust the fools from control of the
)arty.
when the white race begin to hob
lob with the negro and seek his favor
hey must grant him absolute equality.
That means ultimately social as we'll
Is political equality. You can't ask
| man to vote for you and kick him
Town your front doorstep and tell him
o come around the back way
II think you exaggerate the social
LANCER, but l see the political end of
t.
81 don't eXaggerate in the least