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CHAPTER x-continued.


CHAPTER x-continued.
I'm grateful for this teachers
course" said Juanita hotly, "and I'm
not going home"
Anse Havey went on:
But l know that boy. know that
II 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 YET"
Hardy" answered the girl with a
scornful toss Of her head. You see. l
wasn't reared among gun-fghters."
well. have" responded the man.
II was In the legislature down at
Frankfort when it happened. a-helpin'
to make the laws that govern this
state. l was fer them laws in theory
but when that word came paired OF
with Republican. SOS not to lose my
vote on the floor. an come back here
to these hills an got that feller. l
reckon I ought to be ashamed to tell
ye that, but I'm SO plumb ign'rant that
I can't feel It. l knew how Jeb felt
an 30 held him OF with promise to
walt 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, Mr.. Havey." she acknowl-
edged. But 1t is all based on twisted
and distorted principle.
Il don't think myself a saint. I
guess I'm pretty weak. My first ap-
peal to you was pure weakness. But
stand for ideas that the world has
acknowledged to be right, and for that
reason 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- 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 mpassiveness. His eyes
clouded and became puzzled, surprised.
Il reckon l don't hardly follow ye,"
he said. "If ye wants 1t to be enemies
all right, but amt never made no
war on ye l don't make war on wom-
enfolks. an besides l wouldn't make
needless war nohow. All I've got to
do is to give ye enough rope an watch
ye hang yourself"
II you think that" she demanded,
with a 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. to decline my offers? Why.
II my school means no menace, do you
refuse it standing room to start its
fght?"
The mans pose stifened
Who told ye I'd hindered anybody
from sellin' ye land?"
Wherever / inquire 1t 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 reckon ye believe
that. too l did advise folks hereabouts
against seilin' 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 an timber on 1t to make its own.
ers rich some day. Have ye seen any
Of the coal-minin' sections of these
htllsf Well. go an have look. Ye
won't nnd any mountaineer richer fer
the development. Yell fnd 'em plum.
dsred an cheated an robbed of their
homes by your civilized furriner. I've
1sae aimed ter perfect my folks
agninst bsin' looted. aims to 70 on
\ beetsetin' EN-
1gnofancs won't protect thsm," che
( a14eed
q ~ ~ ws was distrustfuI Of fur
Il slneSl went On Havey. Some day
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