The Spectator., 1915-10-19
CHAPTER Il-Contlnued.

Its Havey," he said slowly. 'but hereabouts I've got another name that's better known" He paused, then added with a hardened timbre of voice, as though bent on making def- ant what would otherwise sound like confession: Its Bad Anse"
 The girl recoiled, as though under 8 physical shock. It seemed to her N that every way she turned she was to meet staggering disappointments. She had spoken almost pleadingly to the man with whom she could make no terms-the man whose arrogant power and lawless influence she must break and paralyze before her own regime could find standing-room in these hills. Yet, as she looked at him standing there. and stiffened resolutely, she could say nothing except "Oh!"
 Into the monosyllable crept many things: repulsion, defiance and cha grin for her mistake, and in recogni- tion of them all the bronzed features of the man hardened little and into the cool eyes snapped sparkle of the 4 sleeping fires she had divined.
 T made my suggestion to the wrong > man." she said steadily. "I misunder- vstood you. I thought you said you wanted peace"
 He swung himself to the saddle ~ again; then, as he gathered up his N reins, he turned. and in his utterance *as immovable steadiness and gla- ~e .soldness. together with a ring ktempt and restrained anger.
 :: Sid say that. and by God Al --s. l meant just what l said. l 1t peace in these mountains It never found no way yet to .--~ i without fightin' for it"
 zw him ride away into the
 ', with his shoulders very
 hd the battered felt hat very
 she looked neither to right gas he went until the mists
 swed him.
 \ time while she sat there
 lgaZing across the steep
 Zen which the waters of
 S slipped along in tide of
 F quicksilver and beyond
 ks the near ridges of blue
 dim ridges of gray.
 V she knew that the fam
 Visionary were sitting in
 tn her hands clasped
 n knees as she used \childhood grief had
 Ike out of her mind
 lnaving shown her Anse Havey. It
 lion to remember
 fling of his shoul-
 Zldering fire in his
 (heard much of the
 urt pride of these
 <,A pride which made
 lrange surroundings and eyes, challeng N their uncouthness / iealed to this man. !. had also stung him
 Now they would be 4 this young man, in q every man was poor
 ni.s.- a pauper, owned great fof land that yielded only sparse
 
 Anew that under his rocky acres 1l great wealth of coal;~ and that s s.bove them grew noble and virgin forests of hardwood. The coming of N railroads and development would " make him rich man. Yet he stood there. seemingly prizing above all those magnificent certainties the empty boast of feudal chieftainship | Yet he was man. With that thought | lcame an unwelcome comparison. She thought of someone whom she had 1pved-and sent away-and of their Aeave-taking. lnaf had had every gentle attribA tbich this man lacked. All 4versities, travel and ancestry : had shown out in his bearing,l p-av. his voice and the exprest kyes.
 There had bdA Awhen she had wavered in lation to devote herself Dor which she had been Sthought that this man { impor. tant than an& a life ', with him mia% Then 'had come thF ,at first 4e had ret# q , which Sed itselS s.er reali- pn. Deg )ngeaDle El and N ter all de saad ad, 3hA te had 1ickef N>tich put m, She <