SYNOPSIS.
m—
John Valiant, a rich society favorite,
suddenly discovers that the Vallant cor-
poration, which his father founded and
which was the principal source of
wealth, has falled. He voluntarily turns
over his private fortune to the receiver
for the corporation. Fis entire remaining
lected estate in Virginia
Damory court he meets Shirley
ridge, an auburn-halred beauty. and di-
cides that he is going to like Virginia Im
mensely,
CHAPTER V.—Continued.
with a lilting stride, now and then
laughing to herself, or running a few
steps, occasionally stopping by some
hedge to pull a leaf which she rubbed
against her cheek, smelling {ts keen
new scent, or stopping to gaze out
across the orange-green belts of sun-
ny wind-dimpled fields, one hand push
ing back her mutinous hair from her
brow, the other shielding her eyes.
Farther on the highroad looped around
a strip of young forest, and she struck
into this for a short cut. In the depth
she sat down to rest on the sun-
splashed roots of a tree. Leaning back
against the seamed trunk, her felt hat
fallen to the ground, she looked like
some sea-woman emerging from an
earth-hued pool to comb her hair
against a dappled rock.
She drew back against the tree and
caught her breath as a bulldog frisked
over a mossy boulder just {in front of
her,
A moment more and she had thrown
outstretched. "Oh, you splendid crea-
ture!” she cried, “you big,
white darling!”
this sensational
sponded instantly
proceeding He
growls
she questioned, as his pink tongue
struggled desperately to find a cheek
through the whorl of coppery hair
“Why, you must be the one I was told
not to be afraid of.”
intelligent muzzle As |f
could be afraid of you! We'll
master right on that point.”
any
set your
Smiling
one
long grass, wound it round and round
* Be
it
rose-stem firmly through “Now,”
her, “go back, sir!”
He whined and licked her hand but
when she repeated the command, he
turned obediently and left her. A lit
tle way from her he halted, with a
sudden perception of mysterious pun
ishment, shrugged, sat down, and tried
his teeth, his failing, he rolled la-
boriously in the dirt
Then he rose, cast a reproachful
glance behind him, and trotted off.
CHAPTER VI.
Mad Anthony.
Jeyond the selvage
leaf-sheltered vi
illage
of the sleepy
a8 cherry bor
dered lane met the Red Road. On its
one side was a clovered pasture and
tall hedge of close-clipped box which
showed above a group of tulip
catalpa trees. On the sunny steps a
lop-eared puppy was playing with
mottled cat
The front door was open, showing a
hall where stood a grandfather's elock
and a spindlelegged table holding a
bowl of potpourri.
of that English Garland who had
adopted the old Middle Plantation
when Dunmore was royal governor un-
der George III. Framed portraits and
engravings lent tints of tarnished ail
ver, old-rose and sunset-golds—ecolors
time-toned and reminiscent, carrying a
charming sense of peaceful content of
gentleness and long tradition. The
dark polished stairway had at its turn
a square dormer-window which looked
out upon one of the rose-arbors,
Down this stair, somewhat later that
afternoon, came Shirley Dandridge,
booted and spurred, the rebellious
whorls of her russet hair now as close
ly filleted as a Greek boy's, in a short
divided skirt of yew-green and a cool
white blouse and swinging by its rib
bon a green hat whose rolling brim
was caught up at one side by a crisp
blue-black hawk’s feather. She stopped
to peer out of the dormer-window to
where, under the latticed weave of
bloom beside a round iron table hold
ing a hoop of embroidery and a book
or two a lady sat reading
The lady's halr was silver, but not
with age. It had been so for many
years, refuted by the transparent skin
and a color as soft as the cheek of an
apricot. It was solely in her dark
eyes, deep and strangely luminous,
that one might see lurking the som-
ber spirit of passion and of pain. But
they were eager and brilliant withal,
giving the lig to the cane whore crook
one pale delicate hand held with a
clasp that somehow conveyed a sense
of exasperate if semi-humorous re
bellion.
8he looked up at Shirley's voice, and
smiled brightly, "Of for your ride,
dear?”
“Yes
’
I'm going with the Chal
“Oh, of course. letty Page 18 visit-
Shirley nodded. “She came yester-
Road.” She waved her hand and ran
lightly down the stair and across the
lawn to the orchard.
She pulled a green apple from a
bough that hung over a stone wall and
with this In her hand she came close
to the pasture fence and whistled a
peculiar call. It was answered by a
low whinny and a soft thud of hoofs,
and a golden-chestnut hunter thrust
a long nose over the bars,
hand.
fore she gave it to its juicy crunching
She let down the top bar of the
fence and vaulting over, ran to
to her and saddled him. Then open-
ing the gate, she mounted and can
tered down the lane to meet the on-
aged man, a younger one with dark
features and coal-black halr, and two
girls,
Chisholm Lusk spurred In advance
and lifted his hat, “I held up
judge, Shirley,” he sald, “and made
him bring me along He tells
Pp
“Pshaw! Chilly,” sald the judge. “I
o'clock In born days You've
learned bad habits abroad.”
“You'll see,” he answered
man Friday doesn’t rout me
morrow, I'll up for murder.”
your
“It
out to
be
sunny hi
muf
way gouged with brusk
across shelving flelds and
in a long detour around
by a murky
gullies,
‘turn-rows”’
the shape of an Indian's head that
wedged itself forbiddingly between the
flelds of spring corn and tobacco
“I'm as thirsty as a cotton
batting came.”
“All right, we'll
judge, “and you'll have
gee a local lion, Betty
where Mad Anthony Ii
agreed the
a chance to
This is
You must
stop,”
ves
before. He's almost as celebrated as
the Reverend John Jasper of Rich
mond.”
Betty tapped her temple. “Where
have Ah heard of John Jasper?”
“He was the author of the famous
on ‘The Sun do Move' He
As it hadn't spilled in the
stood still”
nodded laughingly “Ah re
Is Mad Anthony really
Betty
member now
mad?”
Only
‘He's
bellave
harmlessly,” sald Shirley
blind The
conjures-—that's
stone
he
know,
% tyit
Fou
“Howdy Do, Anthony,” He Said.
in his ‘prophecismas.’
tunes, too. Ssh!” she warned.
sitting on the doorstep.
us.”
The old negro had the torso of a
black patriarch. He sat bolt upright
with long straight arms resting on
his knees, and his face had that pe
culiar expressionless immobility seen
in Egyptian carvings. His age might
have been anything, judging from his
face which was go seamed and crev.
iced with innumerable tiny wrinkles
that it most resembled the tortured
glaze of some ancient bitumen pot.
tery unearthed from a tomb of! Kor
The judge dismounted, and tossing
his: bridle over a fence-plcket, took
from his pocket a collapsible drinking
cup. “Howdy do, Anthony,” he said.
“We just stopped for a drink of your
good water,”
The old negro nodded his head.
“Good watah,” he sald in the gentle
He tells for.
“He's
He's heard
Marse. He'p yo'se'f. Come fom he
centah ob de yerf, dat watah. En dah's
folks say de centah of de yert is all
fiah, Yo' reck'n dey's right, Mars’
Chahmahs?”
“Now, how the devil do
who 1 am, Anthony?” The judge set
down his cup on the wellcurb. “I
haven't been by here for a year.”
The ebony head moved slowly from
side to side. “OI' Ant'ny don’ need
no eyes,” he sald, touching his hand
to his brow, “He see ev'ything heah.”
The judge beckoned to the others
they trooped Inside the paling.
brought some other folks with
me, Anthony; can you tell who they
are?"
The
you know
look wavered
the white head shook slow
know young mars,” sald
“How many yuddahs
One, two? No, I don’ know
sigiitiess
“Don'
“lI reckon you don’t need any eyes,”
the sweet cold water to the rest
i
her fortune.”
The old negro dropped
waving his gaunt hands
The judge beckon»d to
his bead,
restiessly
Betty Page,
grimace and drew back.
“You go, Shirley,” she
and with a laughing glance at
the lowest step
Mad Anthony
and
out
the
put
touched
R&R wavering
young body
CHAPTER VII,
Uncle Jefferson,
rose, while ever
is not invariably
The white
A red
beauty,
ever
a thing of
a joy for
bulldog, as
sunk in depression. Being trammeled
he could not understand the whims of
tied tc his neck irksome colored weeds
that prickied and scratched ard would
not be dislodged. 80 it was a chas
tened and shamed Chum who at length
wriggled stealthily into the seat of the
and thrust a dirty pink nose into his
John Valiant lifted his hand to
stroke the shapely head, then drew it
back with an exclamation A thorn
pricked his thumb He looked
and saw the draggled flower
“Oh,
of wonders!” he exclaimed
Where did you get that rose?”
Chum sat up and wagged his tail, for
his master's tone, instead of ridicule,
Perhaps the
pup
he
Ant'ny
en dah's
Wondah
Whut
“Dis de I'l mistis”
“aln’ afeahd ob ol
Dah’'s fiah en she ain’ afeahd
en ain’ afeahd
Ah gwine tell huh®
coloh ob yo' halh, honey?
“Black,” put in Chilly Lusk, with a
wink at the others, "Black as a crow.”
Old Anthony's hand fell back to his
“Young mars’ laugh at de ol
man,” he sald, “but he don’ know. Dat
de coloh dat buhn mah han’s—de eoloh
ob gol’, en eyes blue lke er cat-bird’s
aig. Dabh’s er man gwine look in dem
eyes, honey, en gwine make ‘em cry
en cry.” He raised his head sharply,
she
de
knee
toward the North
come fom.” he sald, “en heah”-—his
arm veered and he pointed straight
toward the ragged hill behind the
he stay.”
Lusk
Dah's whah he
Sr
mn
“He's
whis-
“the only
ten miles
hits it, 1
laughed nolseleasly
pointing to Damory Court”
pered to Nancy Chalmers,
uninhabited within
That's as near as he often
he
place
“Heah's whah he stay.”
“Heap ob trouble wait heah
fo’ him too, honey.-~heap ob trouble,
heah whah I] mistis fin’ him.”
“Come, Anthony,”
mers, laying his hand on the old man's
shoulder. “That's much mourn-
ful! Give her something nice to top
at least!”
Anthony paid no heed "Griet
Dahl's flah en she ain’ afeahd
repeated the
too
But
Ah
heah's de co'ot-house clock a-strikin’ in
de night-—en yo' gwine Don’
don’ wait, li'l mistis, er de
when de clock strike thub-
The voice ceased
became rigid
turned his
droning
form
eves slowly
face. For a moment no
“Watah?
He'p yo'se't™
The judge set a dollar bil on the
step and weighted it with a stone, as
the rest remounted. “Well, good by,
Anthony,” he sald. "We're mightily
obliged.”
He sprang into the saddle and the
quartette cantered away, “My experi
ment wasn't a great success, I'm
afraid, Shirley,” he said ruefully.
“Oh, I think it was splendid!” erled
Nancy. “Do you suppose he really be
lHeves thos spooky things? 1 declare,
at the time I almost did myself, What
an odd idea "when the clock strikes
thirteen,” which, of course, it never
does.”
"Don’t mind, Shirley,” bantered
Lusk. "When you see al! ‘dem trou
bles’ coming, sound the alarm and
we'll fly in a body to your rescue.”
They let their horses out for a
pounding gallop which pulled down
suddenly at a mufied shriek from Bet
ty Page, as her horse went into the
alr at sight of an automobile by the
roadside,
"Now, whose under the canopy Is
that?” exclaimed Lusk,
“It's stalled,” sald Shirley. "1
passed here this afternoon when the
owner was trying to start it, and 1 sent
Une' Jefferson as first ald to the in:
Jjured.”
“lI wonder who he can be,” sald
Nancy. “I've never seen that car be
fore.”
"Why," savd Betty gaily, “Ah know!
It's Mad Anthony's trouble-man, of
course, come for Shirley.”
Yas, Mars’, good watah
grace, after all!
With the first sight of the decora
tion Valiant had had a sudden memory
of a splotch of vivid red against the
gray-blue of a gown He
“And I warned
kled, “Told her not to be
He dusted the blossom pains
handkerchief
her” he chue
afraid!”
with
held it to his a
thing, breathing muskodors of
mid-moon of paradise
A |
dozed and yawned on the shiny
ion beside him
his and
face live brilliant
cush-
Of a sudden Chum sat
ked In earnest
Turning his head, his master saw ap
proaching a dilapidated hack with
side lanterns H great goggles and
sied curtains. It was
nustardtinted mule,
its front sat a col
age, whose hunched
brae and outward-crooked
him a curious expression
and bulbous inquiry. Abreast
car he remos a moth-eaten cap
“"Evenin', sub” sald, —"evenin’
evenin'
ke
3
and
Tt: srtnin
unceriain
on ored man of
Yerte
arms
of
gave
replete
of the
ed
he
Howdy do,” returned the «
“Ah reck’'n yo'-ll done had er breck
down wid dat machine thing dar
been hyuh ‘bout er hour, aln
“Nearer said Valiant
ful t the view's worth it"
yo'
three,”
iy, “bu
forth
"Huyh!
which gave sundry
{ leather
creakings of |
Dat’'s so, suh
teck'n ARI] be
He clucked to t}
Hm-n
back
Dwit's so!
gittin’ eriong
to turn the velilcie round
“Hold on.” cried John Vallant "1
direction.”
“No, suh
come "om Ah jus’ druv
‘case Miss Shirley mel me,
she say, ‘Unc’ Jeffe'son, yo' go 'treckly
out de Red Road, ‘case er gem
out
done
man
“"Oh--Miss Shirley
did she? What did you say
name was?’
“Dat’s hub fust name, Miss Shirley
Miss Shirley done said
She told you,
er
te 3
bh first
whut kinder dawg is yo' got dar?”
“It's a bulldog. Can you give me a
I've got that small trunk and
“Dat’'s a right fine dawg, Miss Shir
ley she moghty fond ob dawgs, too.”
“Fond of dogs, is she?” sald Valiant
It was nice
of her to send you here, Uncle Jeffer
son. You can take me and my traps,
I suppose?”
—.
Fer
{ "'Pens on whah yo' gwineter,”
| swered Uncle Jefferson sapiently.
| "I'm golng to Damory Court.’
{| A kind of shocked surprise that was
| almost stupefaction spread
other's face, like ofl over
“Dam'ry Coot! Dat's de old Valiant
place. Ain’ nobody lives dar. Ah
reck’n ain’ nobody live dar fer mos’ er
hun'erd yeahs!”
an-
over the
a pool.
"The old house has a great surprise
coming it, sald Valiant gravely
"Henceforth some one is going to oc
cupy it. How Is it anyway?”
“Measurin’ by de coonskin en th'ow
in erbout two mile
Ain’ gwineter live dar yo'se'f, sub, is
yo'™
I am for the
crisp answer,
to
in’ de tall, et's
present,” was the
Uncle Jefferson stared at him a mo
ment with his mouth open
ulating
Lawd! What
“i gre 3 ry
dat he shan
Then ejac
Fo
say
his breath,
folks gwineter
led to
under ao
ter
the rear of the
motor and began to unship the steam.
er-trunk ‘Whut yo' gwineter do wid
dat-ar?’ he asked, pointing to Car
Ah wid ol dat's
it mawn-
ter-night
Lhe
Kin come @ Bukey
en fotch in de
gwlneter rain Lo
This matter having been
they started jogging down
bordered road, the bul
mnmgside
arranged,
the green
idog prospecting
al
"S'pose’'n de Co'ot done ben sold
EwWineter fix It up
ownah,’ hazarded Uncle J«
en
new
ferscn
yO de
presently
Valiant directly
4 » on O00 gd
observed
Uncle Jef
heerd,
Ah
happened befo' Al
Post Oak Plan
knc
dal's Miss Shis
said the other
disremembahs
wus Gen
4 # i
arrogant heritag
way it seemed
{ clothe
| lant had
| glimpse
Reck'n
ork?” :
yo'all come
ired Uncle Je
Dey say dats
But Ah reck’n
f fo’ me." He
fTerson
So!
pow big place
Richmon's big ernu
the leisurely mule and
Richmon' onet
Ah nevab see sech houses
bigger'n de
ter
county coot
house
John Vaillant expressed a somewhat
{
J He
thoughtfully the blossom
band. in 3 absorption through whic
Un Jefferson's reminiscences oozed
on
absent Was
- # oy
a in
>
(TO BE CONTINUED)
Diagnosis by Electricity.
For the benefit of the nervous cases
that the doctor, it has been
asserted by Seripture that it is an
necessary to know how emotional they
ns it high the
temperature of fever
Moreover ¥ cases it Is neces
what experiences
the past or present life of the patient
For this purpose
the patient sits at ease with hands op
be go con
cealed in the arms of his chair that he
is unaware that the most intimate
processes of his soul are being reg
istered as various words are spoken or
various topics of conversation are dis
cussed, the galvanometer showing
when a sensitive subject has been
touched Fred W. Eastman, in Har
per's Magazine,
come 10
Just
are is ww how
Cage
in
gary to
in
eswtions
produce
the electrodes, which may
VERY MUCH WRONG NUMBER
Experience Probably Taught Testy
Old Gentleman to Be More Care
ful Whom Me Rang Up.
A gentleman was staying In an
English provincial town, when he
heard that Mr. Moneyboy, his partner
in business, was at another town close
by, so he rang up his hotei on the
telephone.
“Is Mr. Moneyboy there? he In.
quired.
“No, he 1s not,” came the response.
“Well, has he engaged rooms?”
“No. We don't reserve rooms
here; first come, first served is our
rule,” came the sharp and somewhat
airy roply.
He was rather taken back at the
lofty Independence they seemed to
revel in in that town.
“Can you tell me,” he asked, “If
he will stay with you when he
reaches the town?”
“It's possible he may. But we can't
say.”
“Look hers,” roared the irate gen.
tleman, “you're the most impudent
Jack-in-office that ever spoilt
business of the hotel to come and
speak to me.”
There was a chuckle at the othsr
end of the wire.
“This isn't a hotel:
jail,” sald the volce
The confused gentleman rang off
sharp.
it's the town
Why He Left Scotland.
At a Caledonian banquet in Lon
don a Scotsman who had settled In
the metropolis made a speech, in
which Scotland and all things Scot
tish were go fulsomely praised that an
Englishman, who sat next him, sald
when he had finished:
“If Scotland is all that you Scots
men shy It is, why don’t you stay
there instead of coming here?
“Weel,” answered the Scotsman.
“ARH tell yo hoo it wis wi’ me. When
Ah wis In business in Fife Ah fand a
the fowk wis just as cliver as mesel'
an’ Ah cudoa gar the two en's meet.
8ae Ah cam’ awa’ Booth, an’ sin’ syne
man, Ab've been daein’ rale weel”
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