The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1915-12-11
CHAPTER x-continued.

I'm grateful for this teachers
course" said Juanfta holly, land I'm
not going home"
Anse Havey went on:
"But 1 know that boy. 1 know that
If I'd talked thataway he'd just about
have gone out in the Ia'rel an got
somebody. Hit might not "a been the
right teller, and he might have found
that out later. 1 reckon ye never had
father murdered. did ye?"
Hardly" answered the girl with a
scornful toss of her head You see,
wasn't reared among gun-fighters."
We'll. l have" responded the man.
81 was in the legislature down at
Frankfort when it happened, a-helpin'
to make the laws that govern this
state. | was fer them laws in theory
but when that word came l paired off
with Republican, SOS not to lose my
vote on the floor an l come back here
TO these hills an got that teller.
reckon | ought to be ashamed to tell
We that, but I'm so plumb ign'rant that
/ can't feel it. / knew how Jeb felt
I an SO l held him off with a promise to
wait. OF course We couldn't accept the
help of man like that"
He turned and withdrew his hands
from his pockets.
I'm through" he added. IAN I'm
obleeged to We fer harkenin' to me-"
There is something in your point
of view. MIR. Havey," she acknowl
edged. But it is all based on twisted
and distorted principle.
Il don't think myself a saint.
guess I'm pretty weak. My first ap
peal to you was pure weakness. But
] stand for ideas that the world has
acknowledged to be right, and for that
reason l am going to win. That is
why. although I'm a girl. with none OF
your physical power. and no gun
fighters at my back, you are secretly
afraid of me. That is why you are
making unfair war on me. 1 stand fol
the implacable force of civilization
that must sooner or later sweep you
away and utterly destroy your domi
nance"
Fer the first time Bad Anse Havey'i
face lost its impassiveness. His eye.
clcuded and became puzzled. surprised
Il reckon | don't hardly follow We,
he said IF ye wants it to be enemie.
all right, but l amt never made NJ
war on ye. l don't make war on WON
enfolks, an besides l wouldn't make
3 needless war nohow, All I've got Il
DO is to give ye enough rope an watch
ye hang yourself"
IF you think that" she demanded
with quick upIeaping of anger in he
Nv al
to prevent my buying land? Why d.
you coerce your vassals. under fear o
death. to decline my offers? Why
if my school means no menace, do 20,
refuse it standing room to start it
f1ght?"
The mans pose stifened
Who told We I'd hindered anybod,
from sellin' ye land?"
Wherever 1 inquire it is the sam
thing. They must ask permission o
Bad Anse Havey before they can d
as they wish with their own"
BY heaven, that's another 1ie," b
said shortly. But I reckon ye believ
that, too. 1 did advise folks hereabout
against sellin' to strangers. but tina
was afore We come
ne pdCSd me ISLSIn OF the room
while, then halted before her.
Some of that property" he wen
on. and this time his voice was pa.
sionate in its earnestness, has enoug
coal an timber On it to make its owl
ers rich some day. Have We seen an
of the coal-minin' sections of thes
hills? Well, go an have a look. Y
won't find any mountaineer richer fe
the development. Yeu find 'em plul
dered an cheated an robbed of the
homes by your civilized furriner. "
done aimed ter perfect my foil
against bein' looted. l aims to go c
pertectin' EN-"
Ignorance won't protect them" 81
insisted.
Il told We we was distrustful of fu
riners," went on Hayey. Some ds
there1l be a bigger war here than Il
Havey-McBriar war we've seen som
thin of that. That other war will
with your people. an when it com