COrTLPRY YV
SYNOPSIS.
John Valiant, a rich soclety favorite,
suddenly discovers that the Valiant
poration, woich his father founded
which was the principal source of his
wealth, has failed He voluntarily turns
over his private fortune to the receiver
for the corporation. His entire remaining
possessions cot t of an old motor car, a
white bull Damory court, a neg-
lected es. On the way to
Damory “court meets Shirley Dand-
ridge, an auburn-halred beauty, and de-
cides he is going to like Virginia im-
menss mother, Mrs. Dand-
ridge Bristow exchange rem-
inise which it is revealed
h he major, Vallant's father, and a
oor
and
dog and
ate,in Virginia
ley's
and Wr
«Nn
dunt ng
'
oR
+ named Sasson were rivals for the
hand of Mrs. Dandridge in her youth
Sasson and Vallant fought a duel on her
account in which the former was killed
Valiant finds Damory court OvVergr
with weeds and cree pera and the hn
ings in a very much neglected of
ides to rehabi toto the place
land proc
Shirl
wn |
iid
ndition, |
and |
a living for him
from the bite
him n z
bite, Shirley su
» wound and saves his
mother of the
strangely mon
her
his father le
a due! In
Major Bristow
nds Valiant §
friends Mrs
he first meels
Dandri¢ ige
Vall
ant
CHAPTER XIX-—Continued.
He sat down on a mossed boulder,
breathless, his eves sparkling. He had
thought himself almost a beggar, and
here in his hand was a small fortune!
“Talk about engagement rings!” he
muttered. “Why. a dozen of these
ought to buy a whole tiara!
At length he
presently turning
3
and cli on,
I at a right-angle to |
bisect the strip to its boundary before |
ge paused to “I'm no timber
eruigser” he said to himself as he
wiped his brow, “but I calculate there |
hundred trees big |
are all ot three
enough to cut. Why, suppose they are |
only a hundred
worth on an average
apiece. . That would nake—Good
lord!” he muttered, “and I've been |
mooning about poverty!” |
The growth was smaller and |
now and before long he came, on the |
hill's very crest, to the edge of ul
ragged clearing It held a squalid set.
iaubed
some
tos,
of
rose mbed
rest
sparser |
tlement, perhaps a score of dirtd
cabins little better than hovels,
of them mere mud-walled lean
with sod roofs and window-panes
flour-sacking Fences and outhouses
there was none Littered hs ram
bled aimlessly hither and thither from
chip-strewn yards to starved patches
of corn, under-cultivated and t
Over the whole pl hung an inde-
scribable of
filth unredeemed sq
pat
ighted
ace
ate
atmosphere digconsol
of ualor and vile
ness
the dog's collar,
Valiant, un
wretched place
glimpsed many
the slums of
the open sun
about it
gtood
ith one hand
hushing him
geen, looked
with a shiver.
wretched
great cities, but
light, with the clean
and the sweet clear blue
out with an unrelieved
contrast that was doubly
forbidding. He knew inst
the tawdry corner
known as Hell's-Half-Acre, the
to which irley had made her n
ride to rescue Rickey der
A quick glad realization of her cour |
age rushed through him. On its heels
came a feeling of shame that a spot
like this could exist, a foul blot on
such a landscape. It was on his own
land! Its denizens held place by
squatter sovereignty, but he was,
nevertheless, their landlord The
thought bred a new sense of responsi
bility. Something should be for
them, too
As he gazed, an
reached a climax
on
to silence,
at the
He had
in
this, in
woo is
purlieus
above,
and
and
that
unity
place
boldness
sinister
antly
was the commit
Sh ight
Sny
done
in }
bearded fig |
uproar
A red
the door and collapsed in a
the dirt He got up with a dreadful
ocath-—a jug thrown at him grazing
his temple as he did so—and shaking
his fist behind him,K staggered into a |
near-by lean-to
Valiant turned away with a feeling |
almost of nausea, and plunged back
down the forest hillside.
CHAPTER XX.
The Gardeners.
He saw them coming through the
gate on the Red Road-—the major and
Shirley in a lilac muslin by his side
and strode to meet them. Behind
them Ranston propelled a hand-cart
filled with paper bundles from each of
which protruded a bunch of flowering
stems. There was a flush in Shirley's
cheek as her hand lay in Valiant's
As for him, his eves, like a wilful |
drunkards, returned again ana again
between the major's compliments, to |
her face
“You have accomplished wonders,
sah! | had no idea so much could be
done in such a limited time. You
bave certainly primped the old place
up. | could almost think | was look-
ing at Drmory Court In the sixties,
sah!”
“That's quite the nicest thing you
could have sald, Major,” responded
Valiant. “But it needs the flowers”
He looked at Shirley with sparkling |
eyes. “How splendid of you to bring |
them! 1 feel like a robber.”
“With our bushels of them?
shall never miss them at all
you set out the others?”
“l have, Indeed. Every one has
rooted, too. You shall see them.” He
heap in
We
Have
led the way up the drive till
stood before the porch
“Gad!” chuckled the major,
would think it had been unoccupied
for three decades? At this rate,
goon be giving dances,
“Ah sald Valliant
thing 1 want to suggest. The tourna-
ment comes off next week, |
stand, and it's been the custom
have a ball that night. The tourney
ground is on this estate, and Damory
Court {8 handier than the Country
Club.
to hold the dance here?
floor rooms are in
sah’
The ground-
order, and if the
I as
sure vou."
“OR!”
breathed Shirley. “That
be too wonderful!”
red his
major seiz
it heartily “lI can answer for
the committee,” he sald “They'll
jump at it. Why, sah, the new gener
ation has never set eves inside the
house. It's a golden legend to them.”
‘hen I'll go ahead with arr
ments.”
He led them
The hand and
ange
around the house and
down the terraces of the formal gar
den, and here the major's encomiums
broke forth again “You are going to
take us old back, sah,” he
with real feeling Ig gvarden
original lines was uniq
piquancy and a pictures
thank God be
can understs owner
tate
spend h
all
the habit
Damory Court home.”
Vallant smiled slowly oh
dream of anything else,” h
life, as I map it out,
here The rest
the years when |
folks said
in
its
jueness that,
restored! One
of an
desire to
es
ing no
ring abroad. We
recur
ancestors and count
hope, you will to
of 3
don't
My
} in
Dein
e sald
to
count-
seems
doesn’t only
was little
father.’
The carefully adjusted
eye-glagses His head
away. “Ah, yes” he said
The twenty years,” continued
the “from my present
point, mainly for
major his
turned
was
last
other,
are
view
valuable con
trast
AS a
foie gr
‘makes one
He shook
vation makes
The next twenty
they
consistent
as.” said
value and butter?
1i8 head at her. "As star
appreciate plenty
years are to be
hold sldetrips, too
back to th
regimen of
Shirley
bread
de
one
here
Now
the n*
and there's a jaunt
“Contrast again™
3
estedly
“Yes and
who has
clanging life can really un
and bless«
n
3
no Fes, becal 1
that bia
Ife
ever Known
ferstand the
dness of a place
ine
hings
peace like
s § & iy sev 118 $ oy mot
LAE and ecause (0 HINO
which are to be y there
There are the gal and the opera
I need a breath of them both
And semi-occagional longer
the major reflected. “A
in a
leries
flights
look gee
100n Why
hii g
Dive m
too.’
abroad
once
no
Yes. For mental
pressions one can't get from between
There's ax old
in Italy and a particu
Japan in the cherry
and a tiny with
photographs-——im
book-covers
know
river-bank
cloister
lar in
island
ana
(pe
Hand on the
Rim.
a Greek castle on it
Little colored memories for me to
to dream over. But al
come back here to Damory
For this {s— home!"
They walked beneath the pergola
to the lake, where Shirley gave a cry
delight at sight of its feathered
“Where did you get them
from?’ she asked
“Washington. In crates.”
“That explains it.” she exclaimed
“One day last week the little darkies
in the village all insisted a circus was
coming. They must have seen these
being hauled hers. They watched the
whole afternoon for the elephants.”
“Poor youngsters!” he sald “it's
a shame to fool them. But I've had
all the circus 1 want gétting the live
stock Installed.”
“They won't suffer,” sald the major
“Rickey Snyder'll get them up a three.
ringed show at the drop of a hat and
drop it herself, Besides, there's tourn.
araent day coming, and they can live
on that [| see you've dredged out
some of the llies.”
in the Aegean
“Yes,
morning.”
We used have a
when we were little shavers,”
the major. “1 remember
take my dip here every
to
pursued
once,
He
dead.
cleared his throat
Valiant,
"”
said John
like to hear about him
“It was only that I struck my head
on a rock on the bottom and—stayed
down The others were frightened,
but hehe ain and again
till he brought It was a nar-
‘Please.”
dove down ag
me out
reckon
A silence fell. Looking at the tall
mubcular form beside her, Shirley had
a sudden vision of a determined little
cleaving the dark water, over
over, now rising panting
now plunging again, never giv
And she told herself that the
the That hard
jaw lips, would
suffer,
body
and
breath,
ing up
gON was
set of the
game sort
those firm
ching He might
Know no fiin
be strong
ghe
would
HNCON8CIOURIY
aloud “You look
do you not?
ike
“there's a strong
which
he
I h
show you
replied,
ave a photograph
sometimé. But
know?
“Perhaps 1
some confus
only
fon
stooped by the pebt
!
tesnbkr a v
hand to the bron? fucks that
gobbled
you named
about her fingers
she
i and
them"?
ard him hold forth
the Psalms
the
he read n one of
about
rv--and
when
the one the harp and
he called it
peezietree.™
Valiant’'s laugh rang er the
to be answered by a sudden
the terrace, where
naalte
out ov
creech from
the peacock strut a blaze of span
gied purp! i 1 vy turned to
issue from the
hand
exclaimed
a ur Daphne
twig-broom
“What
raff
fo
we'n
fan
“Heah!"” she
kyahin® on like er wil’ g
EOL CO
vo! © re honh
YO { t a Can
mp
weapon and the
raucous shriek of deflanc
ruffied disorder The
m Court looked
What shall we
call him
like tha
the bird
bir
name
Fire Craci
ghe
wf
I'd
goes off said
Cracker
with
And n
he ramb
major had brought a rough plan,
of the old ar
den I'l
ow.” sal “let's set
fers
Croyr
iro memory
ent of the formal! gar
y over the lines of the beds with
jefforson he proposed, “while
two potier over these roses”
Shirley
beneath
So
walked back
*h
the
Valiant
slo}
gother
With Ranston
like a black
ing go-cart
Crimson
much of
and up
the pergola to
puffing and blowing
poise over his creak
the ramblers
and white—-Va
the time on his knees,
nging deep into the black
apongy earth, and Shirley with broad
hat fiung on the her fingers
separating the thread like
roots and her
the
and pin
his hands piu
grass
clinging
arched
about them
raw
small foot tamp
Her
in
very near the brown
their fing
Once. as thes
ing down soil
hair--the color of wet wood
was
head and sometimes
touched over the work
flushed with the exerc
black and orange butterfly
the sin-glow, alighted
FOTrs
up, ise, a
on
arm perfectly still and blew gently
away. When a redbird flirted by. to
his delight she whistied its call so
perfectly that it wheeled in mid-flight
tilted inquiringly back toward
a sun-dial’
“Then you haven't found It?”
She led the way
of beds at
a hedge laced thickly with Virginia
creeper. He parted this leafy screen,
bending back the gpringing fronds
that thrust against the flimsy muslin
of her gown and threatened to spear
the pink-rosed hat that cast an ador-
through the maze
seen such a pleture as she
framed in the deep green.
Some such thought was in the ma-
Jor's mind,
the terra®e below,
off his hat and wipe his brow.
“With the place all fixed up this
way,” he sighed to himself, “1 could
belleve it was only last week that
made
were boys, loafing around this gyar-
den. And to think that now it's Va
liant’'s son and Judith's daughter!
Why, it seems like yesterday that Shir.
ley there was only kneehigh to a
grasshopper—and | used to tell her
her hair was that color because she
{ ran through hell
a thousand
Meanwhile the
hed th
i
bareheaded
{ about "
{
. | reckon!
Agures
years old
tWoO above
into
iy paca wi ys gtood a
had pu
a Cl
Toug
cular sun
WHS
of
5 metal
Round the
a sufn-dial,
y polished
its clad disk cut
stone in which it
{ tongue was socketed
edge of
in archaic
away
outer
the disk ran an inscription
lettering Valiant pulled
the clustering ivy leaves
“1 count no hours but
py ones’
If that
sald
It is true
| read the hap
had only been true!” he
Sea how the vines
sun from it. It cea
time the
the ged to
after Court was
irises
pastel and gravs
hall love this sp
the best of al
» the most now?
toward her,
otched
one
time-n
would
iti
th
In ‘
of ff SiOW
magical
The
i soft
4 Le cot 3
darkenes«
CHAPTER X XI.
Tournament Day.
of
tournament day
the village
vehicles
or moved
urely street ig
ons drawn
by shaggy -hoof orses and set with
chairs th jostled their
holiday load om utiyin
plantation and stud f
covered buggies, long
leas buckboards, frivol
abouts and
from the
webbed
grasasur
At m
canvas
tobacco
sober }
Arrow
us side
antiqg gshays resurrected
depths of cob
nrimeval
primeval
stables, relics of
and faded fortu
day
tarnished
ne
vehicles resolved them
IPP INASP SASF
FINANCIAL PANIC OF
| Year That Many Banks Failed and
Specie Payments Were Practical
ly Entirely Suspended.
Political rancor was at its height
| when Andrew Jackson vetoed the bill
renewing the charter of the United
States bank and removed the treasury
deposits, under which opposition the
| bank collapsed and a vast number of
state banks competed for the busi
ness, which included the issue of bank
notes. In 1837 there were 634 banks,
with an aggregate capital of $281.
| 000,000.
In the history of banking the year
| of 1837 is prominent for one of the
worst panics that was ever known in
America, which resulted in the failure
of many banks and a universal suspen
sion of specie payments throughout
the country, which were not renewed
until over a year and a half later, says
the National Magazine. During this
trying period, when banking opera-
tions were practically wiped out of
existence, all the banks but three con.
tinued doing business in Boston. There
were temporary suspensions of specie
payments in 1857, known as the panic
of '67: also in '61, when Boston fol
lowed the lead of New York, since
it was evident that further attempt
%
selves into luncheon booths
glowed aw ay
hampers
beneath the
closing all manner of
the
HTan
gents, dis
edibles
'
i
court yard Wi
house
s-spread
plent
tablecloths,
of Palos
0 ¥ reign
RR? iss A
Within Mrs. Merryweather Mason's
brown enthrons
Was
house hospitality
at
I sat
ni the generous dining-room
a regiment
quaintances
yard
an hour ls
campment
din of
pink
achieved
of
conver
had
aint
Poly Gifford
for
hore
fo all the interests involved
times of
in the Boston
day after day,
must be sustained;
Walker rose up and said:
men,
payments. There ia no other course
to be followed.” There were mur
murs of discontent and they were al
most ready
of the commenwealth for the bold po
sition he had taken, but he faced
them courageously, and next came the
news of the suspension of the New
York banks.
“Gentle
Difference.
Sald a Russian dancer to a Phila
delphia reporter.
“We can learn much from the dane
ing of animals, but why did we go.
of all things, to the turkey? There is
something a little too vulgar in the
turkey's dancing, and they who imi
tate it get talked about.”
8he shrugged her slender shoulders
“That won't do for womeh,” she re
sumed. “To say, ‘Everybody is talk
ing about him'-~that is an eulogy. But
to ray, ‘Everybody is talking about
ber--that's an elegy.”
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