Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1915-12-22

naint nuver dared ter cross him
afore." MN
No." she cried bitterly. che will vol.
come the chance to humiliate and to
reuse my plea. He has been waiting
ior this; to see me come to him a SIM,
phant on Bonded knee, and then r.
iaugn at me and turn me away" She
paused and added brokenly: "And vet
70 got TO go to him in surrender-to
De refused-but I'll CO."
Listen" said the preacher. and his
words carried that soft quality Of paci.
ncatlon which she had once or twice
heard before. "Thar's a bean worse
rellers than BAG Anse Havev Ef va
could Jest hev seed yore way ter treat
MN leetle diff'rent-"
now could II" demanded Juanita
notify. How could be friends with a
murderer and keep my self-respect ?"
The brown-faced man looked I'M at
her and spoke simply.
I've done kept mine," he said.
The girl rose
VIII you go with me?" she asked a
llttle weakly. II don't feel unite
strong enough to go over there alone.
While they are humbling me I would
IKE TO have friend at hand. / think
1t would help little"
IN ready now" and so, with the
man who had guided her on other mis-.
slons, she set out to make what terms
sne could with the enemy she had so
stubbornly defied.
IL seemed an interminable Journey
though they took the short cut of the
foot-trail over the hills.
The house that had come down to
Anse Havey had been built almost a
century before. It was originally
placed in a section so large that else
where it would have been a domain-a
tract held under the original Virginia
grant. Since those days much of il
had been parceled out as marriage Dor
lions to younger generations.
Cabins that had once housed slaves
barns, a smoke-house, an icehouse, and
a small hamlet of dependent shacks
clustered about clearing which had
been put there rather to avoid surprise
than to give space for gardening. The
Havey of two generations ago had
been something of hermit scholar
and in his son had lurked a diminish
ing craze for books and an increasing
passion for leadership.
The feud had blazed to it's fiercest
heat in his day. and the father of Bad
Anse Havey had been the first BaC
Anse. His son had succeeded to the
title as right Of heritage, and had
been trained to wear it like a fightine
man. Though he might be whelp o.
the wolf breed, the boy was strong
whelp and one in whom slept latent
possibilities and anomalous qualities
for in him broke out afresh the love o.
books.
1t might have surprised his newspa
per biographers to know how deeply
he had conned the few volumes on thu
rotting shelves of the brick house. o.
how deeply he had thought along some
lines. 1t might have amazed them haC
they heard the fire and romance will
which he quoted the wise counsel O
the foolish Polonius. Beware of en-
tering a quarrel, but being in, so bea1
thee that the Opposer may beware
of thee"
AS to entering quarrel, it sufficet
his logic that he had been born into it;
that he had ''heired" his hatreds.
And because in these parts his ia
Their had held almost dictatorial pow
ers, it had pleased him to send his son
just come to his majority, down to the
state capital as a member Of the legis
lature, and the son had gone to sit fol
while among lawmakers.