The Spectator., 1916-01-11
CHAPTER Xxil-Continued.

tiOn and Winchester trading in cattle and timber. made Jou,ney through the hills that spring. and was every where received as home folks" For him there were no bars of distrust, and he was able for that reason to buy land right and left. Though he had paid for 1t price above the average, it was a price far below the value of the coal and timber it contained and Jim had picked his land.
 Anse Havey and his associates knew that the money he spent so lavishly was not his own money; and that he came as a stalking horse. but they did not know that he had been to Louis vile and had conferred there with MT Trevor. Neitber did they know at once that he had visited the cabins of every malcontent among both the for mer factions. and that he was a mis- chiefmaker adroitly laying hero in the hills the foundations for new feud
 Jim had a bland tongue and a per suasive manner, and he talked to the mountain men in their own speech, but he was none the less the advance agent of the new enemy from down below: the personal fulfillment of Juanita's prophecy to Roger Malcolm.
 Juanita did not realize how much she was leaning on the strength of Anse Havey. how she depended on him for counsel and encouragement. yyh fch hn tv, hnh nf hn school. but because he was the school teachers slave. She saw the little hospital rise on the hill and thought of what 1t would do. and she believed that Anse Havey must be, in his heart, converted. even though his mountain obstinacy would not let him say so.
 Then. while the hillsides were joy, ous with spring. came squad of lads with transit and chain. who began running a tentative line through the land that Jim Fletcher had bought. Anse Havey watched them grimly with folded arms. but said no word until they reached the boundary of his own place.
 There he met them at the border.
 Boys" he said. ''ye musnt cross that fence. This is my land. an l for bids ye."
 Their foreman argued.
 We only want to take the measure ments necessary to complete our line, Mir. Havey We won't work any in. jury"
 Anse shook his head.
 Come in. boys, an eat with me an make yourselves at home" he told them, but leave your tools outside"
 Men from the house patrolled the boundary with rifles and the young men were forced to turn back.
 But later they drew near the house of old Bob McGreegor. and he. steal ing down to the place in the thicket of rhododendron, saw them perilously near the trickling stream which even then bore on its surface little kernels of yellow corn. Deeply and violently old Bob swore as he drank from his little blue keg. and when one day he saw them again he asked counsel of no man. He went down and crept close through the laurel. and when his old rife spoke a schoolboy from the Blue Grass fell dead among the rocks of the water course.
 After that death. the first murder of an innocent outsider. the war which Anse Havey had so long foreseen broke furiously and brought the or ders of upland and lowland to the grip of bitter animosity.
 Old McGreegors victim had been young Roy Calvin, the son of Judge Calvin of Lexington, and the name of Calvin in central Kentucky was one associated with the states best tra. ditions.
 It had run in strong. bright thread through the pattern of kentucky's achievements. and when news of the wanton assassination came home. the state awoke to a shock of horror. The infamy of the hills was screamed in echo to the mourning. and the name of Bad Anse Havey was once more printed in large type.
 The men whose capital sought to wrest profit from the hills. and whose employee had been slain. were quick to take advantage of this hue and cry of calumny.
 They hurled themselves into the fight for gaining possession of coveted land and were not particular as to methods.
 Jim Fletcher came and went con. stantly between the lowlands and highlands. He was all things to all men, and in the hills he cursed the lowlander. but in the lowland he cursed the hills. Milt and Jeb and Anse rode constantly from cabin to cabin in their efforts to circumvent the adroit schemes of the mountain Judas who had sold his soul to the lowland syndicate.
 Fletcher sought foothold for capi- tai to pierce fields acquired at the price of undeveloped land and then to take the profit of development Anse sought to hold title until the sales could be on fairer basis, and so the issue was made up.