The Spectator., 1915-11-12
CHAPTER X-Continued.

I'm grateful for this teachers course,' said Juanita hotly, "and I'm not going home.'
 Anse Havey went on:
 But I know that boy. I know that if I'd talked hathaway he'd just about have gone out in the la'rel an got somebody. Hit might not a been the right feller, and he might have found that out later 1 reckon ye never had a father murdered. did ye?"
 Hardly" answered the girl with scornful toss of her head. You see, wasn't reared among gun-fighters."
 Well, l have" responded the man. "I was in the legislature down at Frankfort when it happened, a-helpin to make the laws that govern this state. I was fer them laws in theory but when that word came 1 paired off with Republican, sos not to lose my vote on the floor, an I come back here to these hills an got that feller. reckon l ought to be ashamed to tell ye that, but I'm so plumb ign'rant that I cant feel it. 1 knew how Jeb felt an so held him off with a 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 o5leeged to ye fer harkenin' to me"
 There is something in your point of view, MT. Havey," she acknowl- edged. But it is all based on twisted and distorted principle.
 T don't think myself a saint. 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 he right, and for that reason l am going to win. That is why. although I'm girl, with none oi fighters at my back, you are secretly afraid of me. That is why you are making unfair war on me. 1 stand foI the implacable force of civilization that must sooner or later sweep you away and utterly destroy your domi nance."
 For the first time Bad Anse Havey's face lost its impassiveness. His eyes clouded and became puzzled, surprised
 T reckon 1 don't hardly follow ye, he said. If ye wants it to be enemies all right, but I ain't never made nc war on ye. don't make war on wom enfolks, an besides I wouldn't make k- do is to give ye enough rope an watch ye hang yourself"
 If 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 it's fight?"
 The mans pose stiffened
 "Who told ye I'd hindered anybody from sellin' ye land?"
 Wherever l 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 le," he said shortly But I reckon ye believe that, too. did advise folks hereabouts against sellin' to strangers, but that was afore ye 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 CTS rich some day. Have ye seen any of the coal-minin' sections of these hills? We'll, 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 further. I've done aimed ter perfect my folks against bein' footed I aims to go on pertectin 'em."
 Ignorance won't protect them," she insisted.
 T told ye we was distrustful of fur riners." went on Havey. Some day there'll be bigger war here than the Havey-McBriar war. Ye've seen some thin of that. That other war will be lwsss yolY people, an when it comes