. Abraham Lincoln before 1860 . see me. I talked with thegirl and persuaded her to elope with me; andthat night I put her on the horse and we startedoff across the prairie. After several hours wecame to a camp, and when we rode up we foundit was the onj we had left a few hours before,and we went in. The next night we tried again, and the samething happened—the horse came back to thesame place; and then we concluded that weought not to elope. I stayed until I had per-suaded her father to. give her to me. I alwaysmeant to write that story out and publish it,and 1 began once, but I concluded itwa
. Abraham Lincoln before 1860 . see me. I talked with thegirl and persuaded her to elope with me; andthat night I put her on the horse and we startedoff across the prairie. After several hours wecame to a camp, and when we rode up we foundit was the onj we had left a few hours before,and we went in. The next night we tried again, and the samething happened—the horse came back to thesame place; and then we concluded that weought not to elope. I stayed until I had per-suaded her father to. give her to me. I alwaysmeant to write that story out and publish it,and 1 began once, but I concluded itwas notmuch of a story. Hut i think that was the be-ginning of love with mo. Abraham Lincoln as we have cometo know him appeals to all men be-cause he is so like what all men wantto be. He appeals to all boys because;he shows them their possibilities. He-appeals to all women because he is si>-much the lover and because he proves,that the strongest manhood may be astender as the gentlest womanhood. THREE AFFAIRS OF THE HEART. INCOLN once told a friend of the beginning of love with him. With all hislove for people, for helpless creatures, and especially for the unfortunate, hislove for women and his grief over their loss almost broke his . great of his biographers hint that he was more than half in love with KateRobey, the pretty girl of the settlement, whom he helped, by pantomime, inspelling the word defied. She married Allen Gentry, son of the leading man ofthe village—after he and Allen made their first trip to New Orleans. While living in New Sale mhe fell in love with Ann, the beautiful daughterof James Rutledge, who owned the mill and kept the tavern where Lincolnboarded part of the time. Ann was engaged to a young man named McNamarwho had gone east to take care of his dying father. Some time after McNamar ceased writing toher Ann plighted her troth to Abraham, but the anxiety and humiliation of her first loves neglectwas too much for her sensitive, high-st
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