Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1916-02-02

| came DecauSe-Fm dyin-an wanted
to die in your arms!"
You shan't die she breathed
hercely between her teeth. MY arms
shall always BIO around you"
But he shook his head and his fig
ure sagged little against her knees
i know-when I'm DONE" he said
| slowly. IT'S all right now-I've done
got here. That's enough loves ye.'
For a time she wondered whether
he Lad lost consciousness, and she
laid him down slowly and brought
cushions with which to soften his pc
sition. 1t was almost daybreak now.
She sat there beside him, and as her
heart beat close to him he seemed to
draw from 1t some of It's abundant vi
tally, for he revived little, and
though his eyes were closed and she
had to bend down to catch his words
his voice grew somewhat stronger.
Il amt never felt onesome-before
But out there-dyin' by myself-the
last of my family had to come.
Dyfn' amt like livin-I couldn't die
without ye."
'You aren't dying" she argued des.
perately. "You sha'n't die"
| 1T amt that His breath came
with great difficulty. They'll come
back here. They'll get me yet-an' I'd
ruther die first"
| She laid his head very gently on the
pillows and rose to her feet. In the
instant she stood TRANSPORTED. Deep
in her violet eyes blazed such a blue
| fire as that which burns at the hot.
| test heart of fame. Around her lips
:, came the grim set Of fight and blood
lust.
| The crushed flower on her bosom
rose and fell under a violent tempest
/ of passion. The skirt OF her evening
| gown had been torn in her effort to
carry him. Somehow one silk stock
ing was snagged above her slipper
His blood Redeemed her white arms
and bosom. She drew deep breath
| and clenched her hands. The dis
ciple of peace was gone, and there
stood there in it's stead the hot
breathed incarnation of some yalkyr
lowering over the din of battle and
urging on the fight.
Yet her voice was colder and stead
Ter than he mad ever heard it. She
| pointed to the door.
Get you'll" she exclaimed scorn
fully. mo man but a Havey crosses
| that threshold while live. I'm Ha
vey now and we live or Gle together
Get you!" Her voice broke with 9
wild laugh. Let them comet"
No bitterly bred daughter of the
hills was ever SO completely the
mountain woman as this TRANSFORMED
and reborn girl of the cultured East
She moved about the place with q
| steady, indomitable energy. With
strength borrowed of the need, she
upset the great oaken table and bar
ricaded the door, laughing as she
heard the clatter of pedagogic vol
umes on the floor. Fox's Book OF
| Martyrs" fell at her feet, and she
kicked it viciously to one side.
| She went and stood before her rack
OF guns, and her lips curled as she
caught up heavy-calibered repeater
with all the fierce desire of drunkard
| for his drink She stood there loading
rifles and setting them in an orderly
| line against the wall. She devastated
her altar of peace with the untamed
| Joy of barbarian sacking temple.
Then she turned and saw in the
mans eyes wild glow of admiration
that burned above his fever, and she
| said to him once more, Now let EN-
j come"
He shook his head, but strangely
| enough her love and awakened feroc
| ity had strengthened and quickened
him like brandy, and he pleaded
drag me over where l can get just
one shot"
Then Juanita blew out the lamp and
stood silent in the hush that comes
before dawn. She did not have tc
wait long, for soon she heard hoof
beats in the road, and they stopped
just at the turn.
Hello, stranger!" she shouted, and
1t took all her strength to command
/ her voice. Halt where you are"
There was an instant's silence In
the first misty gray that was bringing
the yelled sunrise.
A stifled murmur of voices came
from the road, and she caught the
words, Hes In thar all right" A
moment later someone called out sui
lenly from the shadows:
1--WE gives We three minutes tel
leave thet house. We're a-comin' in
an we'd rather not ter harm We. Gil
out quick"
"Ye can't save me, dearest. It's
too late. For Gods sake. go out,
pleaded Anse Havey tensely.
Her answer was to cry out into the
dawn in voice that could not be mis-
understood, "Anse Havey's in here
Come and get him." and for added EN-
phasis she crouched behind the over
turned table and fired random sho1
out toward the voice that had Offered
her amnesty.
From the earlier happenings OF the
evening the men out there knew tina
| the school. property was empty save
for the man and the girl, and they
! knew that the man was terribly wound