Tombstone epitaph., 1917-01-21
CHAPTER x-continued,


 I'm grateful for this teachers course" said Juanita hotly. and I'm not going home"
 Anse Havey went on:
 But know that boy. know that if I'd talked thataway he'd just about have gone out in the la'rel an got somebody. Hit might not "a been the right feller. and he might have found that out later. reckon ye never had . father murdered, did ye."
 Hardly" answered the girl with a seornful toss of her head. You see, l wasn't reared among gun-fghters."
 Well. l have" responded the man. T was iD the legislature down at Frankfort when 1t happened. a-helpin' to make the laws that govern this state l was fer them laws in theory but when that word came I paired o1 with Republican. SOS not to lose my vote on the floor. an I come back here to these hills an got that feller I reckon l ought to be ashamed to tell ye that, but I'm so plumb ign'rant that I can't feel it knew how Jeb felt an so held him oil with a promise to wait Of course ye couldn't accept the help of a man like that"
 He turned and withdrew his hands from his pockets.
 I'm through" he added. "an' I'm obleeged to ye 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.
 ''l don't think myself a saint guess I'm pretty weak. My first ap. peal to you was pure weakness. But l 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 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. l stand for the implacable force of civilization that must sooner or later sweep you away and utterly destroy your domi' nance."'
 For the first time Bad Anse Havey's face lost its impassiveness. His eyes ciouded and became puzzled, surprised
 .I reckon I don't hardly follow ye. " he said 'If ye wants 1t to be enemies all right. but I ain't never made DO war on ye. l don't make war on wom. enfolks. an besides I wouldn't make e needless war nohow. All I've got to do is 10 give ye enough rope an watch ye hang yourself"
 If you think that" she demanded with quick upleaping of anger in her pupils. why did you feel it necessary to prevent my buying land? Why do you coerce your vassals. under fear of death. 10 decline my offers? Why. fl my school means no menace, do you refuse it standing room to start it's Hght?"
 The mans pose stifened.
 "Who told ye I'd hindered anybody from sellin' ye land?"
 Wherever inquire :. Is the same thing. They must ask permission of Bad Anse Havey before they can do as they wish with their own"
 By heaven. that's another lie," he said shortly. But I reckon ye believe that, too. did advise folks hereabouts against selIin' to strangers. but that was afore ye come
 He paced the length of the room a while, then halted before her.
 Some of that property" he went on. and this time his voice was pas sionate in its earnestness. has enough coal am timber on tt to make its own CTS rich some day. Have ye seen any of the coal-min.n' sections of these hiiisf Wen. go an have . look Ye won't find any mountaineer richer fer the development Ye1l find 'em plum dered an cheated an robbed of their homes by your civilized further. I've done aimed ter perfect my folks against bein' footed aims to go on pertectfn' 'em-"
 Ignorance won't prrtect them" she onsisted.
 .'i told ye we was dietrustful of fur nners." went on Havey. Some day shereTl be . bigger var here than the aavey-McBriar war. Ye've seen somc- ain of that That other war will be Vtsb yosr people. an when t comes