The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1916-01-13
Ic afIllIauons with the people Of

bryonic affiliations with the people OF
his enemy.
Young Milt had visited Dawn: he
had watched with Anse Havey The
father had always taken a natural
pride in the honesty that cleaned
from his sons alert eyes. and the one
person from whom he had concealed
his own ways of guile and deceit most
studously was the lad who would
some day be leader in his stead. There
we're few things that this old intriguer
feared but one there was, and now II
was tracing lines of care and anxiety
in the visage that had always been so
masklike and imperturbable, II his
son should ever look past his outward
self and catch a glimpse OF the inLer
man. the father knew that he would
not be able to sustain the scorn OF
those younger eyes. SO. while the
| lad. who had gone back to college in
Lexington. conned his books, his faith
er sat before the blaze of his hearth,
his pipe tight clamped between his
teeth. his heart fostering in his breast,
and his mind dangerously active.
The beginnings of all the things
which he deplored. and meant to pun
ish, went back to the establishment OF
a school with "fotched-on" teacher.
Had Dawn McNash not come there,
his boys feet would not have gone
wandering westward over the ridge
straying out OF partizan paths. The
slimness OF her body. the lure of her
violet eyes, and the dusky meshes oI
her dark hair had led his own son to
guard the roof that sheltered her
against the hand OF arson the father
had hired
But most of all, Anse Havey was re
sponsible: Anse Havey who had per
suaded his son to make common caus'
with the enemy. For that Anse Havel
must die
Heretofore Old Milt had struck onl,
at lesser men, fearing the retributioI
of too audacious crime, but now hi
= venom was acute, and even such grav,
considerations as the danger of a holo
caust must not halt its appeasement
Still the mind of Milt McBriar. tn,
elder had worked long in intrigue, ant
even now It could not follow a direc
: line. Bad Anse must not be shot dow
in the road. His taking of must b
I accomplished by a shrewder method
and one not directly traceable TO 8
, palpable a motive as his own hatred
/, Such plan his brain was workin
. out, but for its execution he needed
: hand OF craft and force--such a han
as only Luke Thixton could supply
z and Luke was out West
D II was not his intention to rush has
o down to Lexington and Luke shori
{ come East to meet him. There, hui
dred and thirty miles from the hill
the two OF them would arrange ma
ters to his own satisfaction.
Roger Malcolm had gone back. an
I he had not. after all. gone back with
conquerors triumph. He was now di
cussing in directors meetings plar
d looking to titanic grouping OF inte
n ests which were to focalize on the'
n hills and later to bring development
Q The girls school was gradually ma
! ing itself felt and each day saw sma
e classes at the desk and blackboard
II small classes that were growing large
Now that Milt had laid the groun
e work of his plans. he was making Il
e field faliow by seeming OF gener
3 beneficence. His word had gone Of
o along the creeks and branches and |
IT to the remote coves OF his territoi
u that It wouldn't hurt folks none Il
10 give their children little larnin'."
In response to that hint they troop,
ir I'm from the east wherever the roa'
d could be travelled. Among those wi
j, "hitched an lighted" at the fence we