SYNOPSIS. John Valiant, a rich suddenly discovers that ration, 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- lected estate in Virginia. On the way to Damory court he meets Shirley Dand- ridge, an auburn-haired beauty, and de- cides that he is going to like Virginia im- mensely, Shirley's mother, Mrs. Dand- ridge, and Major Bil w exchange rem Iniscences during which it is revealed that the major, Valiant'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 account In which the former was killed Vallant finds Damory court overgrown with weeds and creepers and decides to rehabilitate the place Vallant saves Shirley from the bite of = snake, which bites him. Knowing the deadliness of the bite, Shirley sucks the poison from the wound and saves his life Vallant learns for the first time that his father left Vir- ginia on account of a duel in which Doe- tor Southall and Major Bristow acted as bis father's seconds. Valiant and Shirley become good friends Mrs Dandridge faints when she meets Valiant for the first time. Valiant discovers that he has a fortune In old walnut trees. The yearly tournament, a survival of the Jousting of feudal times, is held at Damory court. At the last moment Valiant takes the place | of one of the knights, who is sick, and | enters the lists, soclety favorite, the Vallant cor- CHAPTER XXI!Il.—Continued. 4 The twelve horsemen were now sit. ting their restive mounts in a group | at one end of the lists. Two mounted | monitors had stationed themselves on | either side of the rope-barrier; a third stood behind the upright from whose arm was suspended the silver ring The herald blew a blast, calling the title of the first of knights. In- stantly, with lance at rest, the latter galloped at full speed down the lists the There was a sharp musical clash, and | as he dashed on, the ring the | full length of its tether and swung | back, whirling swiftly. It had been a close thrust, for the iron pike-point had smitten its rim. went under cover of which the 1 back outside the lists position. In an upper tier of the stand tator made a cup of his hands flew up, er looped r i0oped former “The | field,” he called. “What odds?" “Five to ona Spotteswood,” a voice answered. “Ten dollars,” announced the first “Good.” And both memoran dum on their cuffs: A second time the trumpet sounded and the Knight of Castlewood flashed | ingloriously down the roped aisle—a | made out and a mounted figure plunged by, and presently, in a burst the herald proclaimed “The the Eagle Lusk, in old-rose doublet plume cantered back ing upon his pltke No simple approa urely and afooi, to send that point straight to the ti ark. it | at headlong gallop, astride a blooded | horse straining to take the bit, a deed requiring a nice perfect seat and an unwavering arm hand! of cheering, Knight of and Chilly and inky | ith o ailv With a silver Jlack one! toing, eye a and Those knights who looped back with | their pikes thus braceleted had spent long hours in practice and each rode as naturally as he breathed: yet more | than once a horse shied in mid-course | and at the too-eager thrust of the spur | bolted through the ropes. Valiant | made his first essay-—and missed— | with the blood singing in his ears The ring flew from his pike, catching | bim a swinging blow on the temple in | Where Had John Valiant Learned That Trick of the Loose Wrist and inflexible Thrust. its rebound, but he scarcely felt it. As he cantered back he heard the majors bass pitting him against the field And then, suddenly, stand and fleld all vanished. He saw only the long level rope-lined lane with its twinkling mid-air point. An exhilaration caught him at the feel of the splendid horse flesh beneath him--that sense of one ness with the creature he bestrode which the instinctive horseman knows. He lifted his lance and hefted it, seek. ing its absolute balance, feeling its point as a fencer with his rapier. When again the blood-red sash streamed away the heralds ery, “Knight of the Crimson Rose-—One!” get the field hand-clapping. From the next joust also, Valiant returned with the gage upon his lance. Two had gone to the Champion of Castlewood and two to scattering riders. When Valiant won his fourth the grand stand thundered with applause. The trumpet again pealed its silvery proclamation. Judge Chalmers was on his feet. “Fifty to ten on the Crimson Rose,” he cried. This time, however, there were no takers. He called again, but none heard him; the last tilts were too absorbing. Where had John Valiant that trick of the loose wrist flexible thrust, but at the fencing club? learned and distance, but on the polo field? The old sports stood him now in good stead. “Why, he has a seat like a was a passion and horseflesh a fetish! “Oh, dear!” mourned Nancy mers. Quint Carter be anybody Mr. Valiant Court got something Winkling it for thirty years, I'd rather else, him for that! Quint s Mr. Valiant misses—" with a lit “He won't miss,” she sald Katharine looked at her tle smile before and read it aright. John Va liant had striven in many contests, skill but of strength and before crowded grand stands dar Tey only of ing, never in all his life had he so desire to pluck the prize on and away instant the lance as the olive plume of for a last time later flashed yellow Castlewood shot failed An Kuight of the Crim the lists last ring on his pike And the tourney was won in the and hand-clapp Valiant took the rose from his i id bound it with a shred « his lance-point As he toward the 1 stand, the and fie Rose down with son +h Li iQ shouting toy assed 1 was 80 that he could of the The people were on ti hoofs file of knight nounted the Majestie George,’ Knight victor of tourney, fF 1 . Of eauly, Tace » part, cooked about People were clapping their the imers throw a tall scolor staring her She was conscious all at once that flanneled rider was close with was stretching up to very * that his pike point, red blossom, in il Oe Vith the rose r hand she curt. sied to him, while the blurred throng itself hoarse, and band struck up “You Great Big Doll,” with extraordinary rapture, the tune of which the noise finally sub sided to a battery gratulations which left her flushed and breathless. Nancy Chalmers the a little like ently, petticoated whirlwindas and when the crowd had pres lessened, ig “Mr. Fargo and his daughter are our guests at Gladden Hall,” he told her “They are ola friends of Valiant's, by the way; they knew him in New York.” “Katharine's lighting her now, | guess,” observed Silas Fargo. “See there!” ure, one hand beckoning to the con- course below, where Valiant stood, the center of a shifting group, round which the white bulldog, mad with recoverad liberty, tore in eccentric eircles. As they looked, she called softly, “John! John!" Shirley saw him .tart and face about, then come quickly toward her, amazement and welcome in his eyes. As Shirley turned away a little later with the major, that whispering voice seemed to sound in her ears—"John! John!" There smote her suddenly the thought that when he had chosen her his Queen of Beauty, he had not seen the other—had not known she was there. A few moments before the day had been golden; she went home through a landscape that somehow seemed to have lost its brightest glow. CHAPTER XXIV. Katharine Decides. Katharine left the fleld of Runny: mede with John Valiant in the dun. colored motor. She sat in the driver's seat beside him, while the bulldog ea pered, ecstatically barking, from side to side of the rear cushions. Her father had declined the honor, remark. ing that he considered a professional chauffeur 8 sufficient risk of his valua. ble life and that the Chalmers’ grays were good eflough for him-—a decision which did not wholly displease Kat rine, : e The car was not the smart Pan- [ down the avenue or along the shell roads of the north shore. It lacked those fin-de-slecle appurtenances which it ran staunch and true, The powerful hands that gripped the steering wheel were brown with sun and wind, and of keenness and energy she had never | surprised before. They | vehicles and there were few whose oc. cupants did not greet him. In as he presently remarked, it was a saving of energy to keep his hat off; and he tossed the Panama into the rear seat. On the rim of the village a group ralsed a cheer to which he nodded laughingly, and further on a little old lady on a timid vinecolored porch beside a church, waved a black. passed pp ea \ & KD AN" fr 4 0 ey ” " — z | The Tournament Ball at Damory Court That Night Was More Than an Event. *d hand to him wit} Katharine n to her with extra cg Ine gesture wed vires . ihat's Miss Mattie the qu iaintest ng-tasseled groves that smel eemed to with his yelr flight and vy on his feng FAVIDE Dalr the western) REE A. frnd i SLIGY y JOOKeG face at hor a YOu ever know a more 1} » ryaide See how t pink yvellos grain ' flelds fades inte Very few painters have ever captured a tint like that. It's like raspberries crushed In curdied milk.” “I've quite lost my heart to it all” | she sald, her jolting with the of their course, "It's a perfect pastoral * * * so different from four terrific pace s * += Of | course it must be a trifle dull at times ie » * gecing the same people al ways * * * and without the thea. ter and the opera and the whirl about but * * * the kind of life one reads about * * * {in the nov: {els of the South, you know * +» {| I suppose one doesn’t realize that it actually exists until one comes to a | Southern place like this And the negro servants! How odd it must be | to have a white-halired old darky in a brass-buttoned swallow-tall for a but. ler! So picturesque! At Judge Chal voice speed city i One I'm walking hearsal.” The car slackened speed as it slid by a whitewashed cabin at whose en. trance sat a dusky gray-bearded fig. ure, Valiant pointed, him?” he asked. “1 see a very ordinary old colored man sitting on the doorstep.” Katha rine replied. “That's Mad Anthony, our local Mother Shipton. He's a prophet and soothsayer. Uncle Jefferson-that's my body-servant-—insists that he fore told my coming to Damory Court. If we had more time you could have your fortune told.” “How thrilling!” sghe commented with half-humorous frony. He pointed to a great white house set in a grove of trees. "That is Beechwood,” he told her, “the Beverly homestead. Young Beverley was the Knight of the Silver Cross. A fine ond place, fsn’t it? It was burned by the Indians during the French and Indian War. My greatgreat-great-grandfath. er —" He broke off. “But then, those old things won't interest you" “They Interest you a great deal, don’t they?" she asked. “Yeu,” he admitted, “they do. You #00, my ancestors are such new ac. quaintances, | find them absorbing. You know when I lived In New York" “Last month.” He laughed a little—not quite the L through a stage COr7L48 YY laugh “Yes, she but had known { To think that a month ago | double-dyed New Yorker.” “It's been a strange experience for you When you back to New | York—" | He looked at her, oddly she thought. | “Why should I go back?" “Why! Because its { habitat. [ns't it?" “That's the word,” he said smiling [| “It was my habitat. This is my home.” She was silent a moment in sheer surprise had thought of this Southern essay as a quickly passing incident, a colorful chapter whose might any be turned. But it was impossible to mistake his mean. ing. Clearly, he was deeply Infatuated with this Arcadian experience and had no thought at present it indefinitely They were passing the entrance of a cherry-bordered lane, and without tak ing his rom the gear, nodded the low broadeaved | dwelling with its flowering arbors that flashing glimps and red between the intervenin “The Rosewood, I was a come your natural § She page day but to continue hands toward showed ses of in brown BE Lrees palace of the She looked in she ROINe ¢ a refuge it the in a Katha after absurd direct lcokad great gate of : i tii re wa floor of of GONE were RET & whole place, moreover, was glee in 16& vers tery and that the of old mys Small wonder fT elect custodian odor ) romance to this particular s i hn ir the ai was the high his decisions being as the major of the re is of the Medes and Persians the farthest county houses of the with laws “CAMS fro fr the were line neighbor. hood crammed overnight guests By half past nine o'clock the pha lanx of chaperons decreed by old cus tom had begun to arrive, and the great iron gate at the front of the drive erect and rustieas now-—-saw an impos ing procedsional of carriages passed up a slope as radiant with the fairy light of paper lanterns as a Japa. nese thoroughfare in festival season The colored bulbs swung $F - ah SPY) athe RY 7 ON 22 & TH : Remember That Mis Personality Counts for Much. | this remark about a certain type of | man at the head of a large enterprise | He Is the man whose office demeanor | is characterized by the coldness of a | snowball and the indifference of a stone, In his desire to become efficient and make every one about him the same he squeezes every bit of human feel ing out of his relations with his sub- ordinates and becomes a part of a working system, as dehumanized as his filing system or his adding ma chine or the typewriter which his stenographer manipulates. During of fice hours he is a machine which die: tates letters, looks over reports and develops efficiency. But—-""he's really very agreeable outside of business hours.” This man needs to know that, his ability being efficient, he becomes more efficient as he becomes more hu- man, just as a machine is more ef. clent the more machinedike it be. comes. He needs to learn that the man at the head of a big concern from tree and shrub, painting their rainbow lusters on grass and drive way. Under the high gray columns of the porch and into the door, framed in its small leaded panes that glowed with the merry light within, poured a stream of loveliness: in car. riage-wrapse of light tints, collared and r wide edged with fur or elder. or wide mandarin coats falling back from dazzling throats and arms, hair swathed with chiffon against the night dews, and gallantly cavallered by mas black and w These from their flowed presently, garbed to culine hite tiring rooms over lke dre the dowagers through flower HINR, make obeisance to then t« corridors, the of discovery in the hall, colored m and y drift lined foam on recurrent waves Behind the which shielded a rose-bower dozen igicians—violins, gui tars and mandolins--came and shivers, into the low and Me as wove of “Carry Qld clock in Back to the music Doors on opposite si wide » came Promptls ten, the merged and alia with two w « HAG d to her him Hascuiil Shai beheld gts pped He wore a slender dress-ss r set ith brilllants spar ireast had he had fancy ball of the winter be fhe 9 had been been one made from a paint Windsor of one of the dukes of a perfect foll for Shirley's white The eleven knights of each with his lady, splendid, were tricked out Many chosen if sufficient. in in ly gorgeous attire brocade had nonce from ite lavender bed, and ruffs been {TO BE CONTINUED) his business together, and that per sonality ‘is a good thing to keep on lets his position run him and who is a A pitia- Being a man with a per a high degree of efficiency i8 an ideal which every business man might well hold before himself, inside of business hours or otherwise. 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