Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-10-12
r1MEsREpuB1ICAN MARsHAILTowN IOWA: OCTOBER u, 1915

ye that, but I'm 20 plumb isn'rant that
I can't feel Il. ! knew how Jeb felt
an 90 I held him OF with q promise to
wait. OF course ye couldn't accept the
help Of man like that"
He turned and withdrew his hands
from his pockets.
I'm through" he added. AN I'm
obleeged to ye fer harkenin' to me-"
There is something in your point
Of view. Mr.. Havey," she acknowl-
edged. "But it ia all based on twisted
and distorted principle.
II don't think myself a saint. I
guess I'm pretty weak. My first ap-
peal to you was pure weakness. But
I stand for ideas that the world has
acknowledged to be right, and tor that
reason l am going to win. That is
why, although I'm a girl. with none OF
your physical power, and no gum
fighters at my back, you are secretly
afraid of me. That is why you are
making unfair war on me- stand for
the implacable force of civilization
that must sooner or later sweep you
away and utterly destroy your dom1-
nance"
For the first time Bad Anse Havey's
face lost its impassiveness. His eyes
clouded and became puzzled surprised.
Il reckon don't hardly follow ye,"
he said. "If ye wants it to be enemies
all right, but l amt never made no
war on We. I don't make war on wom-
enfolks. an besides wouldn't make
a needless war nohow. AL! I've got TO
do is to give We enough rope an watch
We hang yourself"
III you think that" she demanded.
with quick upleaping of anger in her
pupils, "why did you feel it necessary
to prevent my buying land? Why do
you coerce your vassals. under fear OF
death, to decline my offers? Why,
if my school means no menace, do you
refuse it standing room to start its
fght?'
The mans pose stiffencd.
"Who told ye I'd hindered anybody
from sellin' We land?"
wherever inquire it is the same
thing. They must ask permission OF
Bad Anse Havey before they can do
as they wish with their own"
"By heaven, that's another lie" he
said shortly But reckon We believe
that, too. did advise folks hereabouts
against sellin' to strangers, but that
was afore We come"
He paced the length Of the room a
while, then halted before her.
"Some of that property" he went
on, and this time his voice was pas.
sionate in it's earnestness, has enough
coal an timber on it to make its own.
ers rich some day. Have ye seen any
of the coal-minin' sections of these
hills? Well, go an have a look. Ye
won't find any mountaineer richer fer
the development Yell find 'em plum.
dered an cheated an robbed of their
homes by your civilized furriner. I've
done aimed ter perfect my folks
against bein' looted. l aims to go on
pertectin' EN-"
Ignorance won't protect them, she
insisted
II told ye we was distrustful of fur
riners." went on Havey. Some day
there'n be bigger war here than the
Havey-McBriar war. we've seen some
thin of that. That other war will be
with your people, an when 1t comes
there won't be any Mc-Briars or
Haveys> Wen all be mountaineers
standin' together an holdin what God
gave US. God knows hate Milt Nc
Briar an his tribe-hate EN- with all
the power of hatin' that's in mean
I'm mountain man. But Milt's peo-
pie an my people have one thing in
common. We're mountain men, an
these hills are ourn. We have the
same KILN instinct when men seek to
rob US. We want to be let alone, an
II we fight amongst ourselves it amt
nothin' to the WY we'll fight. shoulder
to shoulder an back to back. against
the robbers from down below"
The man paused, and as Juanita
looked into his blazing eyes she shud.
dered. for 1t seemed that the killing
instinct of which he spoke was burn
ing there. She thought of nothing ito
say, and he continued:
NIt's war between families now-but
when your people come-come to buy
for nothin' and fatten on our starva