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
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| 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
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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
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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
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which every business man might well
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