Show t se 4 4 s v e ef S 'S 4 r i I f A. A Man Manfor for the I i A Story o of f the Builders o of f Democracy i i By IRVING BACHELLER i iv it ireta nc t v t V I CHAPTER Continued 22 22 About this time Miss Mary Todd lodd the I dau daughter of ot a Kentucky banker arrived arrived ar ar- ar- ar rived In Springfield to vl lt her sister Mrs W W. Edwards She was a n fashionably dressed looking good-looking girl Af vf It gray blue eyes ees and dark hair found the Wen Well Mary haven't you fortunate Jou young oung g man yet Mr Edwards Edwards Ed Ed- wards playfully t asked the day of her coming You know my husband Is going to be President of the United States and I hoped that I would find him In I Springfield Mar Mary answered In a n like veIn rein Theres great rent fishing here said eald Mr Edwards Edward I 1 know the very man you are looking for tor He has come up from the ranks and Is now the most popular member of the legislature lie He can make a stirring stilTIng speech and thc they say he Is going to be the President of the tw United States Stales lIes lIe's wise and v natty J. J and md straight as a string but a n diamond bib diamond big awkward and h hit it Ty Youre You're Just the girl to take 1 In hand and give him a little poll pol- pol l hand push him along Ills name Is Abra Abraham nm Lincoln Speed knew the Todds When he t called ailed upon Mary Mar Marshe she asked about Mr J Lincoln and said she would like to meet him J jn just jest t the girl for you yon Abe Speed Speed gal said to him that evening She is Is bright ht and well educated and her family has Influence She could be a 6 great great nt help to you I I This Interested the member from fromI I Sangamon county who was indeed eager heager to get set along The companionship r i tofa ofa a refined young lady was the very tery thing th ng he e needed I Lets LetI go oy over over r and pay our respects tg xo to her lier Speed s 1 suggested They went Lincoln Lincoln being carefully dressed in brt first suit of black clothes Miss To Todd d vas a bright vivacious girl of at middle stature filature two twenty years ears old She was fashionably dressed and carried carded her liar head proudly proudly proudly-a a smart looting witt witty well weB spoken girl but not espe- espe I dully chilly handsome Honest Abe was df deeply ply Impressed by her talk and fine Im manners and general comeliness He lie felt her ber grace and charm and spoke of of It with enthusiasm But Dut to hits him and to her there seemed to be an ipas able gulf gult between them She changed her mind about that how how- lever ever when she heard him speak and felt felt the power of his personality and saw saw his face lighted b by the candle of ot othis his spirit It was a 11 handsome face faceIn facein in those moments of high relation Hardship and ami malarial poison polson had lined and his skin The shadows of ot loneliness and sorrow were in its sculpturing But Dut when his eyes ees glowed with passion one saw not oot the rough mask which the life of t the pioneer had given him His ills form lost Its awkwardness his face to took k on a anoble anoble anoble noble and Impressive beauty To 10 quote his own words to the boy bor Josiah Traylor his character was s speaking as well wen as his lips Mary Iary had the Insight in insight insight In- In sight to recognize reco his power She felt the strength of his spirit She agreed with her friends that here was a man manof manof man manof of great reat promise She felt the need of him 1 I To ie te who loved loyed beauty and respected respected respected re re- re- re women as itS he did the grace and refinement of this young oun lady Indy had hed hada heda a singular appeal coupled as na it was the urge of h strong masculine It was a revelation Ho lie was Ilke a young yonn poet pCt going golDS out into Inte the pen open and seeing for the first time the mysterious beauty of the or the tIte e exquisite delicate thin curve of ot the new moon In spying spring He Be began henn he- he gnu gan nn to see seek and study refinement ment of ot thought of or manner of dra dress dreK of at ex ex- He lie knew that he nef needed d Mary but had the f feeling that t she was not for him A A. woman who lived cd near the Edwards Edwards' Edwards Edwards' Ed Ed- wards wards' house had a n small hairy poodle dog One day as ns Abe and nd Mary were walking along the street they met this woman who asked ed If It the they had seen her dog I wouldn't wonder ODd r If It some on down the street had got him tl tied d to Hie th Clu end of ot a pole and Is using him helm to swab oft off Ills his windows said Abe Lincoln with witha a natured good laugh Ill try to find him for j ou Mary enjoyed fun and this and Mke SIke s sallies lles of the you young youg g Ic legislator a i certain zest ft tb f their friendship omen are arC like Ule children In love of or humor The diminutive c Dou Douglas raw in Miss lIss lIssIo Io Todd d an nn ns asset et of ot much value va and aud his attentions began begau to be Mary was Indifferent to his lofty manner and sonorous vocalism Abe Abc Lincoln liked ell her better for that She encouraged cd the visits of ot the thc latter latter letter lat let ter and invited his confidence The fact filled tilled him with a great rent Joy They Thy Vent Invent about together In the Edwards parlor he modestly told her of his I work and his life plan She differed Avith him on certain subjects which unfortunately fundamental II He tic Idd not love Jove her as he had loved lo Ann But nut her personality pleased and fascinated fas fos- the young oun legislator One under the spell of ot it be he asked her ber to in be he his wife She he consented Then hen lie IP lp ben begin OJ to tt J It 1 over It was like Lincoln in his relations with women to get et the cart before the horse so to speak The points pont upon which they disagreed came clime up UT for Cor con con- She could not think thIn It as n he did on the subject of ot slavery shivery and Inri the kindred one of ot state rights His luan- luan ners were tre not like mP tiers hern They grew ett naturally out of ot on ones one's s 's history and neter aeter He could he kind and E gentle centle I In his way But nut mainly his hits m manners would hare have to be like the tho rugged limbs of the oak The Ilie grace and elegance nce of ot the willow water and the white birch were not for him It saddened d him to conclude that he would have to b be for tor a long time Just what he was crude awkward unlearned hi tn the graces graces and amenities of cultivated people He lIc rl rightly jud Judged ld that hi his crudeness would be a 8 constant source of ot Irritation to the proud Mary As their acquaintance progressed the truth of his conviction grew gre more ap- ap parent This however owe cr did not so much concern him as nl her IIer lack Inck of sympathy sympathy sym sym- pathy with some some of his hie deepest moth mo mo- th tives s. s He Ill decided that after all ll h he did not love lo her and that to marry mury hr would be c committing a great t wrong Some of the unhappiest days s of or his life followed Ills His com conscience cI nce gave n e him no rest He knew not what to do He lle wrote ote a letter ito to Miss Todd In which he reviewed the the he history of ot his thinking en on the subject of ot their marriage mar mor marriage and frankly but tenderly stated his conviction that t it would imperil her happiness to marry him Before Defore sending It he submitted the letter to his friend Speed The latter read It over and looked very grave gra What do you yon think of It Lincoln asked I would never send a letter like that to a lad lady Speed answered If you feel as you say go and tell teU her so but dont don't put it In a 8 letter Lincoln went to see her that evening evening eve f ning and returned to his friend in a amore amore amore more cheerful mood Did you ou tell teU her Speed d asked Yes I told her ber What happened She burst out ont crying and I threw my arms around her and kissed her herand hern n and d that settled d It We are going to tobe tobe tobe be married What an nn Illustration of ot th the humanity humanity human human- ity and chivalry of Honest Abe Abc waIn was wao In the proceeding 1 I Im sure you'll get Et alon along all rl right ht together tog said ld SpeNt Speed Your spirit is jealous of an any one likely to pet get et In its way But she wont Shell She'll fall tun fallin fallin in line and do what she can to help 3 you ou Now a n little before this time Henry and other creditors of oC Davis ls had gone to Chicago o In the matter of the satisfaction of ot their ju Judgment l ment against him Henry had driven a n wagon across the thc prairies and returning return return- ing In had brought Bun Bm and her mother to his home and then tp Springfield eld It was while they we WI there that Harry had come com down 1 o f Chicago out of the woods in o II condition cf of health which had alarmed d hs Mil physician The latter had put him on a steamboat and sent him him East He lle was wu bound for Cor the mountain country In northern cn New leW leWY Y York Lim and her mother ret returned M r to Chicago en on the st stage the former to toIl toj j Il I 3 Ij S 'S j I I II I I i Deeply Impressed by Her Talk and Fine Manners Manner take lake a place In the store as the representative representatIve representative of Samson's Interest Harry was three years ears in the wilderness wilderness wilderness wild wild- erness tr trying to regain his health Success carne came to him in the last year ear of his banishment Toward the end of ot It he received recel a n aletter aletter letter from Mr Lincoln It was written written writ writ- ten sons santi after that curious climax In Inthe Inthe inthe the coL COV ting of ot Mary Iary Todd In this letter he wild id I r am nm i saving orving my last term in the I t learn th that you are Ole In InI I b nod od I 1 hope that liar tau on n willI will I t 1 r have the strength and Inclination t to return foon soon and be a n candidate fo for my alp j seat Hat In the house Samson will wll not do It being so bus busy with large larg affairs You are young You have hav won distinction in the service of ot your you country You have hare studied the problems problems lems lens of nr the county and the state Samson and Baker Ealer and Logan anc and Browning agree with me that you are arc the man for the place A As 11 for Cor rny myself I am nm going to be he married In a n year or so 60 I 1 shall have to ghe give nil all my time to the practice of the tile law I 1 am now In partnership with Stephen T. T Logan and am slowly cJ clearing my conscience of ot debt I Ihne have hn done clone what hat I could for the state anti for Sangamon county It hasn't bren hren much touch I want Kant you JOu to take up the burden If you OU can cnn until I set get free tree of my debts at least By and by byI I Imay I Ima Imay ma may jump Into th the ring again Harry w was s glad Iad to obey tho the sum sum- mons Soon after the arrival of Mr lr 1 Lincoln's letter his doctor gave the young yonn man what he lie called d an honorable honorable honorable honor honor- able discharge The magic of or youth and aDd It Its courage and of ot good air had wrought ht a change of which the able doctor had had little hope in the be be- ginning In his travels through the great t forest forest forest for for- est Harry had hud met David Dald Parish and nd Stephen Van nn at whose homes on the shore of the St. St Lawrence Lawrence Law Law- rence he lie had spent many a happy happ summer r day doy Three years had passed since that fateful morning on the rie Through the winters he had lived in a comfortable hunters hunter's camp on the shore of Lake Placid Summers he had wandel d with a 8 guide Ide and canoe through the lakes and rivers of the wilderness hunting and fishing and reading rending the law books which he had borrowed from Jud Judge Jude e Fine of Ogden Ogden- burg Each summer he worked down the to that point for a visit with his new friends The history history his his- tor tory of ot every week had been written to Him BIm and her letters had reached him ilm at nt the points where he was wont to o rest In his travels The lovers had hadnot hadnot not lost their ardor Theirs was the love ove that hopes bopes and endures and is patient On a day In June 1811 he boarded a i steamboat at Ogdensburg on his way to o Chicago C He arrived In the evening eve eve- ning and found Samson at the home of f BIm DIm and her mother mother n a capacious and md well furnished house on Dearborn street Him BIra was then a little over o five twenty fi e years old A letter Jetter from John Wentworth says that she was an nn exquisite bit of womanhood learned earned in the fine arts of ot speech and dress Iress and manner Tire The store hind had doubled In n size under her management and with the help of or orthe the he capital of Samson and Sarah Traylor Traylor Tray Tray- lor The fhe epidemic had seized seised her toward the last of her nursing and left the he marks of its scourge ul upon on her bel It hud had marred her beauty but Samson writes the Ule girl irl was still sUI very hand- hand seme She was kind of ot scared to meet larry harry for fear of what hed he'd think of or those hose little little marks on her face but 1 I told old her not to worry orrl You are arc the smartest and aDd loveliest lo coking a creature that I ever saw raw in inay my ay life said Harry Horry after be he had h hold holdI ld I her r in hi his arms anus II a moment But Bat we iOU what hut bapP happened to me nie- nie look ook at nt nay face she sho ans answered ered It IB is more b beautiful than thUD ever he saId aid Those marks mark have hare doubled my mylove mylove love ove for yon you Ih 1 are lire medals of ot honor onor better than thou this one that 1 wear roar I want int to marry you RS na Monas soon Mon as is possible Ive I've been breD looking for- for forward ward i-ard to that t 1 I was sixteen Then mien I think Ill I'll tale tt you yea arid and u lr marry you yon before you OU have a 11 chance to o I tight light it another r duel duet I 1 dont don't hear r anything but lore aad marriage raid hl Weve veve been en musing down ut lit our bou house boure e to keep Josiah from running r off ore and nd getting married lies lie's engaged already Engaged Ina d To whom Harry Barry asked Ul To 10 Annabel She's Shee a little ittle older r than he h. la Is 11 She laughed fit at t him Dud cud prom promised lied to marry mirry him himas nt as b soon M as he was tag n nominated for Pres- Pres b by all his friends She would now vote tote for him herself He lIe has become a good athlete and the boat best scholar in school Ho lIe has en every boy huy toy and girt girl Irl in the village Tillage working for or him evenings s and Saturdays What are they doing Harry Marry asked Making those run ne newfangled led things they hey call You can build a n aIre alire lire Ire In a second with cm em fhe They cut cut splinters out of or soft wood dip their ends eulls In in brimstone which brimstone which J Joe 00 learned how to make male make and put them thom in a hot oven iven until the brimstone Is baked Then a scratch will bring a n dame Joe JOl o puts them up In bundles and aDd sells them their to the merchants and calls them lucifer matches He lie has Invented a machine that will cut and dip a thou- thou splinters an hour I tell you Annabel Is In danger dunger He lIe took a lucifer out of ot his pocket 10 1 n J scratched It on the bottom of his boot toot The party looked with wonder ot at t Its flame which quickly consumed the he slender thread of pine In his lin gersI gers ers gersI ersI I have Ia e always thought that Joe JOl would mild make matte a whale of a imm ll said Harry larry I Wo all on seem s.-ern tt U t. be threatened threaten cJ un I Ir r r diate and overwhelming happiness happy happi ness BIm Dim exclaimed The only thing In the way |