The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1915-12-16

ouBhl W hhoW. 10 ulou KNOW tuat
they'd ruther have Ignorance than
charity. Ye think that you an Al.
mighty God have gone In partners fer
the regeneration OF these mountains.
where no woman has ever been In
suited an no man has to bar his door
against thievery; where all we ask 10
to be left alone. reckon every day
ye're wonderin' Is my halo on
straight?' It's nat'ral enough that ye
should be right scornful OF man that
some newspaper reporter has called
murderer"
His voice fell away. and Juanits
heard again the beating OF the ham.
mers out In the barn.
rs that all2" she asked. but the
man shook his head aud stood there
looking down on her until under the
spell OF his unusual eyes she felt like
screaming out: Talk II you want to.
but for heavens sake don't look at
me. | can't stand i'll"
"Mebby ef ye'd stopped to think
about things" he resumed. ''yed have
seen that didn't have no quarrel with
your plans. Mebby mought even
have been able to help ye. | could
have told ye for one thing that
whether the ways here be right or
wrong, they've done stood fer two
hundred years Ye've got to 90 slow
changin 'em. Ye can't hardly pull up
poplar saplin with one jerk. Thar's
tap-root underneath II thet runs
down halfway to hell.
IF people hyarabouts is dlstrustful
OF furrin teachers an ways, it's be-
cause of the samples they've had. A
feller came here once from the settle.
ments to teach school. He was a
smart upstandln' feller an well
liked A man by the name OF Trevor.
When folks found out that he was
locatin' coal an buyin' their land fer
next TO nothin'-robbln' them OF their
birthright-it looked right smart like
somebody might kill him. | warned
him away to save mis- life. Ye've got
to make folks forget about Trevor
afore ye makes em trust you
Thank you," said Juanita coldly
"I'll try to show them that I'm not an.
other Trevor. Are you warning me
away to save my life?"
I'm tol'able ignorant" went % the
man. but I've read few books, an
one OF 'em told the story of the TroJaa
hoss. I wanted ter see what kind sf
a critter you was a ridin' into these
hills. | come to this cabin the night
ye got here to find out"
81 thought So" she quietly answered
Il was to be inspected like an immt
grant. and the lord OF the land was to
decide whether or not should be sent
back"
Put II that way II ye've . mind to-"
he answered. "Ye WAS com!a' to be a
schoolteacher here. Well. ~ done
been a schoolteacher here. | - your
smile-yere wonderin' weot | ssuld
| teach. Maybe. after all, tie a T5EAt
good idea to teach A b C's before ye
starts in with algebra an rhetoric. Ys
wouldn't have me as a friend. an J
reckon that won't break my heart"
Then" eaid the girl. looking 10
and meeting his eyes with a fash sf
challenge. Il shall endeavor to get
along without your favor. We could
hardly have met on common ground
at best. | shall teach the ten com.
mandments, including Thou shalt not
kill | shall teach that to lie hidden
behind a bush and shoot en unsuspect
Ing enemy is cowardly and despicabla,
! would not be willing to tell thea
that they must live and die vassals TO
feudal tyranny"
NO" he agreed, 'ye couldn't HARD,
ly outrage your holy conscience by
I tryin' to teach 'em things in a way
they could understand. could ye? II
Jeb had come to ye, like he came to
me, askin' the name OF the man he
sought to kill, ye would have said ter
him. 1t was so-and-so. but yo mustn't
harm him. because somebody writ In
book two thousand years ago that
KILN is SIM An the hell OF 1t Is
ye'd low such talk would satisfy him.
"Ye couldn't do no such wicked
thing as to stop an reflect that he's q
mountain boy, an that for two hun.
dred years the blood in his veins hes
been a comm down to him full OF