SYNOPSIS. a rich soclety favorite, rs that the Valiant his father founded was the principal source of has failed He voluntarily private fortune to the n His entire t of an amg John Valiant, suddenly discove poration, which remaining old motor car, a YY court, a neg On tr 18 Wy to riley and ginla im cides th at he a golr hange rem and = ir the yi ut h, by pn TEI 2 42 PT nosy Bg CHAPTER XXI|.—Continued. I got over it before 1 enough to make myself a larity,” the doctor retorted the they've Invent the grizzly } y thar anotner 2 was “I gee apers a new called re's ajor EOL yuthall,” ed to t personal dancs hink your the tch me 10.” . thank God,” “1 prefer to rer till preserved a twenty odd years ago.” If dign -" the majo rising “consists taste kerings, | you choose No mutters ed tor. member you st trace want non fo it f less bi What on e: had some “Friends! fewer I have The major angrily, strode to the « it. But on the thresho and presently shut it, slowly nd resumed his I was relighti his cigar, bv odd furt look slips face, and the ba match was 1 For a first in sultory rth do frien re arn "er sel snapped ds once.’ the other the better! clapped on loor, and © his straw hat pened doctor ive ed to Yme silence, way on grays people sald the here.” The major peer over I ie shoulder, That’ lent ter Kat down ¢ he's this judge's road in gtate “No.” to take a ten-mile “Friends!” Snapped the Other, Fewer | Have the Better!” to this county's populat But I'm coming to the fsed Valiant | in temporary aberration “The fon, 1 dance expect Prom would a moment of CHAPTER XXII, A Virginian Runnymede. “June in Virginia is something to remember.” Today the master Damory Court deemed this a true say ing. For the alr was like wine, and the drifting white wings of clov®, piled abovz the amethystine ramparts of the far Blue Ridge, looked down upon a violet world bound in green and silver, In his bedroom Vallant stood look- robe. Presently he took from a hook a suit of white flannel in which he ar- rayed himself. Over his soft shirt he knotted a pale gray scarf. The modish white suit and the rolling Panama threw out in fine contrast the keen sun-tanned face and dark brown aves. the hall below he looked about | with satisfaction. For the last three days he had labored tirelessly to | fit the place for the evening's event The parlor now showed walls rimmed | with straight-back chairs and the] rand plano-—long ago put in order— had been relegated to the library. That | for the artistic, which had | made him a last resort in the vexing | problems of club entertainments, had alded him in the Court's adornment Out of the kitchens Cassandra's | ege-beating chatted like a watchman’s | Aunt Daphne put the fin ishing an array of lighter edibles destined to grace the long ta now walled In In touches to on the rear porch, ith snow-white muslin iusters, U and hung nder the trees then experin cand On Was even various punch compour delicious aroma of vanills ostrils i i rudged Caus hor you where you ing be through wi 1 + 42 committee, and was brass of ruments winking in The stand was a confused EAauzr’ pastel hite SWa as they but one a quick Perhaps she ips her but then high, for he with a group of not have told e that it was of soft hat down as wound with a shaded tint. Her mother | She was not her out ing for He felt disappointment sme! Perl was still ill Perhaps his heart beat in the tier, young He what anv Murillo Curve pang of ine mother | aud if saw i lower could eople peEOpIE ghee WOre, blue with a whose d brim =» plume of was not ing his at the mon adorable the game with her “ look arins i in an little child lap--and but a | vouchsafed to him heteng upon him and le pavilion, for he | of the Ii for this distraction, he might een, entering the stand with the Chalmers just as the band struck up a delicious whirl of “Dixie,” the two strangers whom the doctor had ob served an hour before as they whirled | by the Merryweather Mason house be. | hind the judge's grays. Silas Fargo | might have passed in any gathering for the unobtrusive city man. Katha: rine was noticeable anywhere, and today her tall willowy figure in its champasne-color lingerie gown and hat | garnished with bronze and gold this tien, setting in relief her {ivory statuesque face, drew a wave of whis pered comment which left a sibilant wake behind him. The party made a picturesque group as they now dis posed themselves, Katharine's color lesa loveliness contrasting with the eager sparkle of pretty Nancy Chal mers and the gipsy-like beauty of he pas being held toward matron's ay god ent gest in a smiling single before the as ure a glance was major one But have 8 Betty Page. “You call it a tournament, don’t! you?" asked Katharine the judge “Yes,” he replied. “it's a kind of in which twelve riders com the privilege of naming a of Beauty. There's a ball to which the lucky lady is crowned. Those littie tents are where the noble knights don their shining armor See, go their capari chargers.” A file the tents of pete for Queen night, at there soned of negroes was approaching ading Weare a horse whose rated with the center in front planting a tall pole a hor gallows, From this whose whirled each l¢ bridle Various saddle and dee hues. In of the directly stand in ge top slend roped lists, Of others the ground irojected were up from 1 fzontal arm ar rd at hat a CO object t is That Splendid Old Man Giv- ing Directions? The One Whe Looks Like a Lion” the at whic excl Kath aimed arg y shoo tha fi “a i over bout the barriers Katharine looked “Who is that sp giving ne? The who looks like a lion He's com now." t's Major Montague Bi s judge. “He's been master of for years The tourna could hardly happen without the spleen. i $4 directic Way. istow.” Faas ure I'd “What to Hike a she girl he him,” aval lovely an- is It 8h who had the lists railing left?” he beckoned She was “Why bas the asked one the was ii major fr over Pe Yoice riley Or i 10 ndieton a low “Isn't twelve?” “He was. B feeling up to didn't give We'll have knights.” made an exclamation of dismay Ridge! And what a pity! have never been less than the number. It will spoil the royal quadrille tonight, too Why doesn’t in of ut he's 1 He it when he came, till half an to get along wasn't but hour with he ARO up She Poor There full place? lant? gure listen. Why not ask Mr. Va. He is our host tonight. I'm he'd be glad to help out, without the costume.” “Egad!” he said, pulling his im “None of us had thought of He could ride Pendleton's of course.” He reflected a mo- I'll do it. It's exactly the right You're a clever girl, Shirley.” hastily crossed the field, while mount, ment He neled figure--long since recognized — under the purple pavilion. She saw and hurriedly enter. in the moment's walt, gloved fingers clasped and unclasped been chosen long before John Vallant's coming. If a saddle, however, was perforce to be vacant, what more ap propriate than that he should fill it? The thought had come to her instantly, bred of an underlying regret, which she hhd all along cherished, that he was not to take part. But beneath this was a deeper passionate wish that she did not attempt to analyze to see him with others closed long circle bis assume ‘his place habituated to that place rightfully and name-—and shadow, that must res of his father things. She satisfaction a 3 his by reason of to lighten the gloomy t on his with warmer of heaved secret sigh as the rose in acquies The gtand a 1 whiteclad figure major turned to the and ur gr held up his hand for acious Liege in his big vit it rant vo Beauty yet unknown, and Esquires, alli! Whereas have enterprized and to hold jousts ro e hereby Runny achievement tou zr be 1 acquain mede are Gf nooie rnament to tilt Brievi ur i Round, who of ida 163% flanks and the sir glowing in his hat “The White Knig! . w ho is he™ udge de no wou I'hat ourt CHAPTER XXII The Knight of the Crimson Rose. of hors had halted in line before the grand stand in silen the herald, parchment The row emen a curving and now ho! the ting = LUNE a DANCED IN SURINAM JUNGLE Explorer Telis Part He Took in Fes tivities With the Daughter of Native Chief. In Harper's Magazine Charles W the native tribes in Surinam, South Africa, and dancing with ter of a chief “The commandant and Mr were with me opposite the drummers, where a Djoeka presented his daugh- ter, a superb black creature, two other girls, advanced into the ring, with coy step and posture, to ward three men, with whom they danced in pairs; the girls, with a shy lilt of the head and constant mov. ing of hands, passed and repassed, turning closely about their partners, A girl would fol Smit ed from the ring center, then, as he hum of laughing approval “Suddenly the dusky form of the emerged measmeric motions of the hands, al most touched me, turned like a flash, and was gone. A loud murmur rose Smit nudged my arm. ‘She likes you You have got to dance,” he whispered. Every explorer knows it is sometimos as unwise to accept such a challenge as it 1s sometimes indiscreet to re fuse. She advanced again with an { —— before each rider rocia olution with Knigh of { hit of the astlewood,” 2 Wegtover's ~ other by SUE girl reassured safety imbers fo the rhs adapt bucka come a of that in eptibil enabled m slight proficiency In dancing and be- later an integral part miei: throng "ONE music to BOMmMe nd-wing' to " mome Case of Commotian. Did you ever have a forceful female presiding in your kitchen who kept gonstantly in a turmoil for fear she might bring the house down about | your ears”? Rose Ssahl tells a story such treasure belonging to a family lived in California One afternoon the town exper lenced | a slight shock of earthquake “Pictures were thrown down, crock. and furniture rattled about. 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