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SPANISH PEGGY
A STORY OF YOUNG ILLINOIS
By MARY HARTWELL GATHER.WOOD
Copyright, 131)9, by Herbert 8. Stone A Cos.
Continued.
a woman. He swayed, and could
scarcely stand.
“You’ve made yourself sick being so
downhearted when you ought to have
kept your wits. That Lorimer fellow
is back at the Grove again, and he’a
making a bold stand now. If he had
known I carry that snakeskin f
reckon he would have followed our '
chain. But Dick Yates is here. We
tried ,to find you last night, and
couldn’t ”
“I tell Sally I not believe her!” ■
shivered Antywine.
“And then you leg it out here and
pass a sentimental night and a watery (
day on Daddy Cameron’s grave! I’m
surprised at you!”
The American way of joking over
what had been tragedy seemed
delicious to the Canadian boy as he
tramped back the long seven miles. !
When he reached his house at the end
of the village Lincoln did not think it 1
advisable to take him any farther. |
Antywine was so ill (hat he lay down
upon the floor, resisting any suggestion
of food.
Through delirious eyes he saw the
blaze, which Lincoln contrived to start
in the chimney, interlace sticks piled
there months before in readiness for
a first house-warming.
Lincoln was on his knees blowing
it when he heard Slicky Green pant
through the door:
“Are you here, Abe? You’re wanted !
at the tavern.”
“What’s the matter at the tavern?”
The Grove boys are coming to
throw everything out of doors if you
don’t give that Lorimer man the Span
iard and her money.”
“How do you know?”
“Martha Bell Clary slipped off on
her father’s horse and brought word.’’;
“Where’s Dick?”
“He’s looking somewhere else for
y on.”
Lincoln stood up and glanced at
Antywlne, who had suffered, but was
unable to fight, resting like a log at
the hearth corner.
“Poor Antywine!” he whispered, and
carefully shut the door as he went out
to settle the unconscious boy’s fate. |
The self-appointed censors of the
Grove had once wrecked a store in New
Salem, and kicked the merchandise
about the street. The population of
the village was about 100 souls, few
of whom could be mustered as fight-;
ing men; while the Grove males were
all fighting men.
The night was starlit and cloudless,
but there was no moon. Dull panes of
oiled paper revealed candles in some
houses, but a hush like expectation
seemed to stretch along the unseen
windings of the street. When the Grove
boys mounted for a raid of any sort
they usually rode at full gallop, yelling
like Indians. Lincoln was ahead of
Slicky Green in the race to the tavern. ’
when both stopped, halted by a pro
cession with lauters. There had been
no noise of shouting and no crash of
destruction. The cpiiet approach of the |
company seemed worse than its ordi-'
nary rioting.
“They didn’t stop at the tavern!"
whispered Sllcky Green.
They had been to the tavern, for Dick j
Yates, bareheaded, was leading them
peaceably away from it, walking in
front of the cavalcade; and a girl's
figure could be discerned sitting upon
a led horse. The dust of a
Ullage road muflled the tread of hoofs. 1
But along house fronts on each side,!
where footpaths were marked by daily I
use, sounded the uneven patter of
many feet. Men, women and children |
of New Salem, suffered to witness what!
they could not prevent, were hovering '
around Lincoln and the little Spaniard, j
He thought he saw Ann Rutledge, in
her short-sleeved house dress, her face
showing white and anxious through
the dark; and Mintcr Grayham, whose
haggardness and puny strength the
Grove boys would ha\e laughed at if
opposed to them.
“Here is Abe Lincoln," announced
Y'ates; and as if he had given a com
mand to halt, the company halted.
"Here 1 am” said Lincoln. "Do
you want me?" Dick and Slicky stood
beside him in the middle of the road.
“My friends and I” spoke a voice
with a foreign accent, “have an af
fair of two minutes with you. You
have somewhere a snakeskin purse
belonging to my cousin, Consuelo
Lorimer. Bring it and you shall not
bo injured.”
"But if 1 did she’d be injured!”
“Don't let them take me, Mr Lin
coln!” besought Peggy from the midst
oi the riders. “I will not go! Where’s
Anty wine?”
“Boys, you ought to be ashamed of
yourselves! ”
"We didn't come out for a speech,
Abe.” mocked Redmond Clary.
“And I’m not practicing polemics.”
“You get the girl's money and hand
it over.”
“You let her out of that gang.”
The gang growled.
“We have a crowd and you have Just
two backers. New Salem people can’t
do anything. We don’t want to hurt
you, Abe, unless we have to.”
“String him up like a horsethlef!”
cried a man at the rear.
“Are you going to hand over the
Spaniard’s money?”
“No, I’m not,” replied Lincoln.
“Ride him down!” cried another, and
the horses were spurred forward.
Some women and children shrieked in
fright as the three young fellows were
driven in retreat to Anty wine’s cabin
and sprang upon the chest of drawers.
Standing close together with that short
rostrum under their feel, they faced
about the ring of horsemen who drew
up around them. The perforated tin
lanterns showered drops of yellow light
on trampled grass. Behind the men’s
heads and shoulders were a void of
trees and the starlit sky, and the ex
cued murmur of New Salem. Lincoln
towered in the midst of the circle.
He could dimly see the Spanish girl,
and he remembered for one instant
how Antywine lay exhausted within
the cabin. She was looking for the
last time at what was to have been
her home, and wondering, with an ache
of grief worse than her terror of the
ruffians, what had become of the
gentle housemate who had never be
fore failed to take her part.
“Now men, listen to me one minute,”
exclaimed Dick Yates.
‘We re not here to listen,” ruled the
leader.
“These boys ought to be put out,”
one man insisted. “We don’t want
them.”
“Let my cousin’s property be re
stored to her,” spoke Pedro Lorlmer,
“without delay.”
“And who are you?” demanded
Yates, the beauty of his rosy youth,
which had been felt rather than seen,
changing suddenly to the power of a
man with irresistible magnetism. His
voice rolled out across the wall of
rough His eyes had scathing
lights. His unwilling listeners raised
their lanterns to look at him. “I have
been gathering facts about you for
more than a year. You are a New Or
leans gambler. You ply your trade
under cover of some political scheme
about Cuba, a place you never saw.
All you want of the poor young giri
sitting on the horse beside you, is the
handful of money her father contrived
to hide from you. You think it is a
very large sum. It is about two
thousand dollars. If it hadn’t been for
poor old Shickshack you would have
robbed her long ago. You paid Shick
shack’s half crazy, avaricious wife to
send you word where lie could be
found, every time lie moved to get rid
of you.
“These men wouldn’t send a child as
helpless as one of their own sisters
with you, if they knew you. You play
the* grandee before them. And in the
west we always have backed a man up
in taking his own when his rights were
denied. But (lie only right you have
in tills community is to be dipped in
(lie Sangamon!”
Lincoln, who had seen a knife thrown
at Antywine’s head for fewer words,
kept his eye guarding the indistinct
movements of the Spaniard. An un
easy tremor ran around what had been
a dead wall of antagonism. But un
fortunately Mahala Cameron’s father
now lifted his voice from the hark
ground, and in the character of min
ister exhorted Redmond Clary to draw
his followers homeward and cease
abetting the ungodly. Redmond Clary
tinned on him and told him to go hom°
himself, or he might be neatly laid lie
side his daddy in the Concord hurying
ground.
One word had swiftly followed
another while Lincoln gauged the force
drawn around him. His hair was
rumpled over the arch of his head.
His strong nose and clean-cut neck and
the outward curving of his lips showed
by fitful light above his shorter com
panions. Some radiation from his
personality made one of the men ex
claim:
“Abo, we know you’re honest. Dm
if you're too stubborn to band over
that money we’ve got a barrel at the
mill all ready to roll you into the
river.”
“Wait!" said Lincoln, stretching out
a long fore finger.
Pedro Lorimer hissed at him: “I
do not wall while boys practice
speeches! I could myself In return call
my enemies names. This is not what
was promised me.”
“What Red Clary promised you,"
stated Lincoln with intuition which
amounted to knowledge, "was if you
would cancel his gambling debts he
would make me hand over the little
Spaniard’s money.”
Redmond Clary flung himself off
bis horse and ran at his accuser. The
time* for words was past, if the figure
towering above them all had stood
with less assurance, the raging leader
might have led his mob to a cruel
murder. Hut Lincoln’s humorous eye
spread a contagion of smiles as he
caught the bull-bodled champion of the
Grove by the collar and flung that mus
cular bulk across the ring to cool.
There was to be a fight. The men
drew deep Inhalations of enjoyment.
For ever since Abraham Lincoln ap
peared in New Salem they had wanted
to see him matched with Red Clary.
Lincoln knew he was about to succeed
or fall with the only argument which
could move those to whom might was
right. Eloquent and convincing words
had to be backed by a man who could
master his listeners. He was tired and
supperless. The Spanish girl leaned
down on her horse’s neck, unconscious
ly uttering prayers aloud for her
champion. The struggle would be over
In a few minutes, but if Red Clary
whipped him her future lay In unknown
and terrible places. That Anfywlne
was missing seemed a token that the
worst must be in store for her. She
was In the grip of an evil force.
Doth men threw off their round
abouts and vests. Lincoln faced his
two companions,making them a screen,
and hurriedly unfastened the belt of
gold which he wore under his shirt,
and put It in his hat. This lie gave to
Slicky Green, who held it, while Yates
stood guard.
“You were cut out for a banker,
Slicky,” said Lincoln. “I wasn’t. I
might burst the snakeskin and spill
the money.”
His opponent rushed at him like a
mastiff let loose, and Peggy doubled
herself lower upon the horse’s neck.
She heard the impact of blows, which
sent shudder after shudder down her
body, and the panting of spent breath.
The Grove boys set up a yell, and she
stuffed the horse’s mane into her ears.
The big muscular bully who had made
everybody in the Sangamon country
afraid of him, and shaped public
opinion for the Grove, was taking some
cruel advantage of a clean wrestler, un
used to sledge-hammer brutality. Then
a hush penetrated even the horsehair,
and Peggy looked as Lincoln knocked
Red Clary flat beneath the chin of a
startled animal. He fell against its
hoofs, and being pulled into the clear
space by one of his friends, lay still.
"I reckon,” said Lincoln, pulling his
own shirt collar wider open, and sitting
on the chest of drawers to breathe,
“he has the wind knocked oat of
him.”
“Goody!” Peggy’s own cry of thanks
giving was the first sound heard by the
vanquished man. He sat up, blink
ing at those who had seen him
humbled.
Lincoln bent over until his body de
scribed a right angle, and shook one
long horizontal arm at the unim
paneled jury who would have to render
verdict in this first case which Yates
and he had associated themselves to
win.
“A boy," he panted, “is like a white
dress; soil him, and he can be washed
and made clean again. But a giri is
like a glass bottle; if you let her fall,
or throw her down and break her, she
is broken forever. Now. men. are you
determined to have this poor little
bottle destroyed?”
There is often speech where there is
no language neaia; ana i'edro Larimer
anew he stood by himself Irom that
instant.
He spurred his horse toward Slicky
lo seize the hat and break away wiia
it. But Antywine darted out of th.a
cabin and across the open space like
a stroke of light, intercepting ilia
Spaniard. His eyes large with fever,
and his high features impassioned, ho
had almost the beauty of an apparition.
As the two encountered, Antywine
seized the horse’s bits and jerked it
to its haunches. He and Pedro Lorl
mer stared at each other. Before the
rider found his balance again Lincoln
asked with whimsical significance:
“Boys, how would any of you like
to get up out of chlll-and-fever, and
find all Clary’s Grove helping a
stranger rob you of your own dear
gal?”
A sympathetic and sheepish grin
seemed to relax as much as could bo
seen of every rude face; and Pedro
Lorlmer, throwing away caution,
spurred over Antywine. The boy fell,
and leaped up. understanding It was
a struggle for Peggy. A whirlpool of
shouts and plunging horses, and men
scrambling to mount, drove all
watchers back. Even Redmond
Clary's voice was heard, denouncing
"AND LOOK OCT FEARFULLY FOR A
DREADED FACE."
the man whose part be had taken. The
crowd that had come down New Salem
street seeking Lincoln went back driv
ing Pedro Lorimer.
Horrified as New Salem people were
by threatened violence, they were un
able to refrain from cheering. They
crowded to the chest of drawers, where,
left stranded as by a stormy tide, sat
Peggy and Antywlne. He held the hat
and snakeskin which Sltcky Green
thrust into ills keeping before following
the ebb. The pair clung together,
hearkening to no voices but their own,
as two robins escaping from some
peril of man, might have felicitated
and comforted each other. The air
was fresh like the breath of the sea
after a hot land breeze has gone by.
Mounted all three upon the horso
from which Lincoln had flung Peggy to
Antywlne, Lincoln and Yates, and
Slb’ky filling Its hack from mane to
tall, made the best haste they could to
(he Sangamon. They stood at the top
of the terraced hank while Pedro Lori
mer was rolled down In a barrel.
Three times, tradition has It, the
unhappy wretch took his plunge, and
ante bobbing up like a buoy. Then
Lincoln and Yales, and the cooling
effect of the water on those who had
him to pull out, succeeded in moderat
ing popular rage against him. He was
turned loose, and his horse whipped
in the direction of Springfield, with
emphatic assurance that the barrel
would be kept for him, and If lie ever
came back would be put to Its final use
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Occupation-
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ns ms boating eomn.
Don Pedro Lortmer was never scon
again In that country. When Peggy
and Antywine were married, and keep
ing hoiiae in their own cabin, ahe used
sometimes to part her white curtains
at night, and look out fearfully for a
dreaded lace. But happiness and se
curity become a habit, and she loved
after awhile to tell her own story.
Years later the two who had steered
her destiny braham Lincoln and Rich
ard Yates—began to steer the destinies
of a nation and a state, and the Span
iard of New Salem grew to experience
the grateful awe of a person who has
been visited unawares by strong
angels.
THE END.
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