a B8YNOPSIS. soclety favorite, John Valiant, a rich ] Vallant cor- suddently discovers that the poration, which his father founded and which was the principal source of his wealth, has falled He voluntarily turns over his private fortune to the receiver for the corporation. His entire remaining possessions consist of an old motor car, a white bull dog and Damory court, a neg- jected estate in Virginia, On the way to )yamory court he meets Shirley Dand- ridge, an auburn-haired beauty, and de- eldes that he is going to like Virginia im- iensely. Shirley's mother, Mrs. Dand- and Major Bristow exchange rem- fniscences during which it is revealed that the major, Vallant's father, and a man named Sassoon were rivals for the hand of Mrs. Dandridge In her youth Sassoon and Vallant fought a duel on her a unt in which the former was killed finds Damory court overgrown the bt i very much neglected condition tant explores his ancestral home. He »d by & fox hunting party which his estate He recognizes Shirley t the head of the party. He gives sanc- tuary to the cornered fox Gossips dis- cuss the advent of the new owner and re call the tragedy in which the elder Val fant took part Va wi in v | 1 ® Till the sun was high John Valiant lay on his back in the fragrant grass, meditativeiy watching a bucaneering chicken-hawk draw widening circles against the blue and listening to the vibrant tattoo of a “pecker-wood” on a far-away tree, and the timorous wet whistle of a bob-white The whole place was very quiet now. For just into sound and movement: when the sweaty horses had stood snorting and stamping in the yard with the hounds 1H riding<oats winking like rubies in the early sunshine! Had recognized him as dged kerer of the stalled She saw me drop that wretched brute through the window,” he chuckled. “I could take oath to that But she didn’t give me away, true little sport that ghee was And she won't I think of any reason, but I know she angry? At length he r¢ she tin Lin oO I wonder!” ao ayd went back to the house. Wilh a bunch of keys he had found he went to the stables, after some difficulty gained access, and propped the crazy doors and win- dows open to the sun. The building was airy and ighted and con- tained a dozen roomy box-stall spacioms loft and a carriage-house The straw bedding had unre- moved, micegnawed sacking i gotted hay lay in the mangers, and th welll been Was a decay. the the “There!” gemelly mildew mowed away and moved mass of He found a stick festooning cobwebs, debris piece-meal he said with satisfaction place for ‘ncle Jefferson ever gs here's a the mao here he returned, or ta it was noon when a wash-up in the to with which Aunt Daphne, in suggestive of a bran-meal poul after lake, the a cos iy dim tice him Fried chicken, corn-bread so e fr ft and fluffy that it had om the pan with a spo« potatoes, and his surpri mil “Ah done druv ouah ovah, suh.,” explained Aunt "s gotter be milkec de Red Sea fo’ browned fresh COW to ge, ® Ol Daphne Case she er n dry ez Izril” “Aunt Daphne,” with his mouth full, this green thing?” “Dat? Dat's jes’ turnip-tops, wid er hunk er bacon in de pot 77 she fu ob inn inquired “what do you call suh, Laws 8he Bit Her Lips as He Snapped the Offending Bole Short Off. er-me, et cer'n’y do me good ter see yo' git arter it dat way, suh. Reck'n yo' got er appertite! Hyuh, Hyuh!” “l have, | never guessed it before, and it's a magnificent discovery. How- ever, It suggests unwelcome refleo tions. Aunt Daphne, how long do you estimate a man can dine like this on —<well, say on a hundred dollars?" “Er bhun'ed dollahs, suh? Dat's er right smart heap o' money, deed ot is! Well suh, 'pen’s on whut yo' raises. Ef yo' raises yo' own gyarden-sass en chick'ns en algs, Ah reck’'n yo' kin live longah dan dat ar Methoosalum, en still haf mos” of it in de ol stock: in’.” “Ah! 1 can grow all those things myself, you think?” “Yo' cert'n’y kin,” sald Aunt Daphne. “Ev'ybody do. De chick’'ns done peck fo’ deyselves en de yuddah things-—yo’ o'ny gotter ‘courage 'em en dey jes’ grows.” i Valliant ate his dessert with a thoughtful smile wrinkling his brow As he pushed back his chair he smote his hands together and laughed aloud. “Back to the soil!" he sald, “John Valiant, farmer! The miracle of it is that it sounds good to me, 1 want to raise my own grub and till my own soil, I want to be my own man! And I'm beginning to see my way. Crops will have to walt for another season, but there's water and pasture for cat- tle now. There's timber—Ilots of it— on that hillside, too. I must look into that.” He filled his pipe and climbed the staircase to the upper floor. There were many bedrooms with great four posted, canopled beds and old-fash- foned carved furniture of mahogany and curly-maple, and in one he found a great cedar-lined chest filled with bed-linen and napery. In these rooms were more evidences of decay bedroom he mentally chose for his own was the plainest of all and was above the library, fronting the vaga- bond garden It had a great black desk with many glass-knobbed draw- ers and a book-rack He lingered longest in a room whose door was painted The Hilarium, It had evidently been a nursery and schoolroom Here on the walls were many sbelves wound over with net works of cobwebs, and piled with the assemblage of toys There were school-books, too, thumbed and dog-eared, from First Reader to Caesar's Gallle Wars, with names of Valiants scrawled on their fiy He carefully relocked the door he wanted to dust those toys and books with his own hands In the upper hall again he leaned the window, sniffing far of orchards and peach The soft whirring wing went past, al face, and ch their faithful brute.like In the room vigorous so leaves from roi flung blown the scent fence-rows sound of a bird gtartied the old bent oaks seemed to limbs with a yawn of pléasure could hear the Aunt Daphne's hard-driven the sound flooded a comfortable He went to his trunk and fished out a soft shirt on which he knotted a tie. exchanged his Panama for and whistling the bar from Tales of Hoffmann, went gaily out ‘1 today,” h tramped you below 1d broom and the echoing space commotion he of with feel tremendously a confided to the dog, as he through the lush grass. “If me ladle the muck out of that fountain with my own fair hands have a fit. I'm lable to do any son th His eye he “There or a sid hims fron south gerumptious swept and down ty taf { house in the whole So site he “tc sunsets And on w that back clear Blue Ri He Only out many rim skirted BOme of 4) iiiies of them -—and and weed those green little and spotted trout.” He was but there's straighten margin a show im wharf! below them to dive I'l ft with the pebble to rocks from, yes, stock a few hundred yards deep that there might habitation within fifty miles. All he stopped short; there was a sudden movement in the thicket be yond-—the sound of light fast footfalls, ag of some one running away made a lunge for the dog. but with a growl Chum tore himself from the restraining grasp and dashed into the bushes A child, no doubt,” thought as he plunged in pursuit, that lubberly brute will scare it to death!” He pulled up with an exclamation. In a narrow wood-path a little way from him, partly hidden by a wind- fall, stood a girl, her skirt transfized with a wickedly jagged sapling He saw instantly how it had happened. the windfall had blocked the way, and she had sprung clear over it, not noting the screened spear, which now held her apike In have been He he and half another moment Vallant of flamecolored hair beneath broad curved brim of her straw hat At her feet lay a great armful of cape jessamines. joyous, ran through him. instant he had not recognized her. CHAPTER XIII John Valiant Makes a Discovery. with amusement, off one of of reserved strength that every wom an likes, been so silly-~thank you so much.” said Shirley, panting slightly from her exertions. hurt—only my dress—and you know very well that 1 wasn't afraid of that ridiculous dog.” A richer glow stole to her checks as she spoke, a burn PA. her horse that morning at Damory Court, she ha. glimpsed in its glass on the porch. Both laughed a little. He imagined that he could smell that wonderful hair, a subtle fragrance like that of sun-dried seaweed or the elusive scent that clings to a tuft of long plucked Spanish moss. “Chum stands ab golved, then,” he said, bending to sweep together the scattered mine. “Do you-—do you run like that when you're not frightened?” “When I'm caught red-handed. Don't you?” He looked puzzled She pointed to the flowers. “1 had stolen them, and I was trying %o ‘'scape off wid 'em’ as the negroes say. Shocking, fsn't {t?7 But you see, wobody has lived here since long be fore | was born, and ! suppose the flower-thieving habit has become in- grown.” “But.” he interrupted, “there's acres of them going to waste. Why on earth shouldn't you have them?” “Of course | know better today, but there was a—a special reason. We have none and this is the nearest Tha \ A 2 oa J ’ \ eB a 7 fe a “It Won't Hurt,” Reassured the Would- Be Operator. place where they grow mother My nted some for this particular day.’ heavens!” he cried nk you can't go right Why, Jeu can "'s« way, tin on 1 the whole garden any gleam of azure ] suddenly out of iged back agaln little rash perty ? little at es and th darted or What bent back one ¢ e¢ jong Jessa and ind It around I can for hi {owe will the owner eay Ha f 1) ne stems wo the AusSWwWer ¥F Ou # 4d Lis ed you ii8 s looked at him, abruptly serious do that? His » hard for it unds,’ horses you two beady Twenty sald, ‘and a And look what red-brown eva raven dozen a mor tho Mey veering » ties? pitas mettied pony under the whip But as suddenly of resentment passed; under the bent thoughtfnl Do you think ings?" she asked gravely no.” smiled | gh the shadow a b the the hat-brim * Oi ¥ face i tl “Oh dear, he a single iam vegetarian.’ havent your meat ?™ Perhaps. So nmny of us would As a matter of fact, | don’t hunt my- self. but I'm no reformer.” Why don't you hunt?” “if don't enjoy It” slightly trifle difficultly don't know why. Idlosyncrasy, | sup pose. But [ shouldn't care for hunt | ing, even with bows and arrows. | would kill a tiger or a poisonous rep- own He siiy. But even then I should hardly enjoy it. | know some animals are pests and have to be killed Some men do, too. But I don’t like to do it myself.” “Wouldn't that theory lead | wholesale evasion of responsibility ?™ “Perhaps. I'm no philosopher. But i a blackbird or a red fox is so pretty, even when he is thieving, that I'd let him have the corn. ['m like lord High Executioner in “The kado' who was so tender-hearted that he couldn't execute anybody and planned to begin with guinea-pigs and { work up. Only I'm afraid | couldn't even manage the guinea pigs” She laughed. “You wouldn't find many to practice on here. Do you raise guinea-pigs up North?” “Al” he sald ruefully, “you tag me, too. Have | by chance a large letter N tattooed upon my manly brow? But I suppose it's the accent. Uncle Jef ferson catalogued me in five minutes. He sald he didn't know why [ was from ‘de Nort’ but he ‘knowed® It. I've annexed him and his wife, by the way.” “You're lucky to have them. Une’ Jefferson and Aunt Daph might have slipped out of a plantation of the last century. They're absolutely ante-bel Most of the negroes are more less spoiled, as you'll find, I'm She turned the conversation “Had you seen Damory or bluntly. Court before?” “No, never." “Do you place?” “Do I like it?" cried John Valiant. “Do I like It!” A quick pleasure glanced across her face. “It's nice of you to say it that way. it's become mechanical our great show-place.” At that moment a patter of foot: steps and shrill shrieks over the last-year's leaves beyond the lilac bushes. It's Rickey Snyder,” she sald, peering out smilingly as two children, pursued and pursuer, burst into view “Hush!” she “lI wonder what are up The palr came in a whirl the bushes The foremost seven-year-old negro girl, in short cottonade garment, You see, It's they to.” WAS & The other was white and as freckled as a turkey's egg, with hair cropped like a boy's She held a carving knife cut from a shingle, whose edge had been deeply ensanguined berry juice. Tune pursued one stum- a heap, while tha other pounced her like a wildcat “Hold still], you scolded. “How stay still? Yau var cd awa, upon she you limb of Satan” can | do it when won't “Oh. the one, in simulated srror: “oh, Doctah Doctah Ah gotter hab dat operation? Is yo' sho’ gwine twitter aroun’ mah dem knives saws en things? “It won't hurt,” reassured the would be operator: “no more than it did Poly Gi Aud I'll p right back again” is x? Walt er good Sn) has tor insides en ord it your | ie Ah jew” remem bahs Ah fo'got ter make mah will leabs—" “Nonsense!” made alwars do it beforehand. ™ “No, sub: Ah Ah leabs mah thimbl church, en mah { ter Ricker Snyd« A twig snapped unde Both scrambled girl to look at grin back oblected the other irri You it yesterday done clean fergot ot oe ter ge t's foot to tl r feet he t wit wide sell conscious fossing | short halr fre came toward Shir wri : " Mus ny fee you at goodness - all “Are you said, we didn’t Valiant that's going to fix ahe inquire d Lescale » looked at f #1 i the man without any tedious for said Vallant Yes “Well” she sald eritically | got your job cut | should say you're the kind to do Rickey!™ 8 i be but laughter in it “What did 1 | Rickey “Tm nplimentary it was.” sald Vallant. “I shall try to deserve your good opinion” { "But what a ghastly play!” Shirley, “Where did “vou've But 1 i.” tried to there was a& hint of 8 ut for you iiriey’s voice stern SAY sure | pow?" ing meant it iired to be Cor But claimed learn ft?" ‘We were p the hospit { “She's got you laying Mis’ Poly Gifford in al,” Rickey answered | bles what they cut out “Oh, Rickey!" expostulated Shirley | with a shudder WASTED WEALTH OF COUNTRY | All Kinds of Game Has Been Indie criminately Slaughtered Through out Labrador. | The fish, flesh and fowl of Labrador, | have been exploited to the last degree, | and no seintific or practical effort has i 3 | habilitation. Our auks, curlew, ducks {and many other birds have become | od. white settlers, have go far diminished where once there was always plenty. The destruction of seal herds has erable poverty. unrivaled herring and mackerel have left us altogether. The salmon eatch i= only a shadow of what it once was, and even the returns of our still val uable cod fishery show increasing un- certainty in quantity and distribution. The growing number of trappers, the lack of protection, or the destruction of thelr food supplies, bas made the annual winter fur hunt insufficient to maintain in comfort all who prosecute it, and that in spite of the immense increase In the price of pelts. Seals did, She keeps them in & Bhe was showing {* to Miss Mattie Bue yester- She was telling her all about it each other their cuts and bragged “You certainly have a highly devel oped taste for the dramatic,” sald Shirley “1 wonder what your next effort will be’ “It's tomorrow,” Rickey (nforn “We're going to have the due between Vallant and Sassoon.” The smile was stricken from John Valiant's A duel—the duel—be tween Vallant and Sassoon! He fell his blood beat quickly. Had there been such a thing in his fathers Was that what had blighted it? “Only ied 1 i face 14 ” life? where it really hap rchard not here but in the Greenie's going to be “Ah aln'!” “Ah ain’ gwineter be dat Va how!" “You are, wrathfully Meredith oO contradicted Greenies. fies t palit, too!” insisted Ric) “You needn't be s0 pi and and after she kills put the € hoosety bloodhounds on no dawg l nie tittered. “Dey aln heah'd tech me,” she sald, k Shirley interposed, That was a They don't—" Rickey cheer exciting lead and Ri wasn't ay,” a mui between gentl that duel I know it” fully 1 “But it makes it more Will you come, Miss I won't rge you omiss said Shirl y, isn’t it about time ¢ had her tea” s 4 in unch of jessamine broad roots of a mottled the with phe said sugdeni ng to a {imson weed had settled, with glassy vibrating, a long ungainly t with an odd sword is that?" he asked A snake doctor. If Unc’ Jefferson were here he'd say, ‘Bettah watch out! Dahl's er snek roun’ erbout heah sho'!’ fill of darky superstitions ™ Suddenly trees took a quick turn, and Il away | at their feet. “There,” she sald. “This is the finest view at Damory Court™ TC BE CONTINUED) Wings ke nse | like beak. “What 1 neediell He'll you full the slim path between the fol ERATE 3, " 3 oe ps 3 i A So 1 and whales are rapidly approaching a | similar fate i i is made of our unlimited water power | joy the wild scenery, the ing atmosphere, though our rival those of Norway, and have the additional attraction of being virgin coast from the straits of Belle safe. in our waters. country until attention is turned to the development of industries that | man does not share with the tiger and the shark. To the Point. 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