SYNOPSIS. — John Valiant, a rich society favorite, suddenly discovers that the Valiant core poration, which his father founded and which was the principal source of his wealth, has failed. He voluntarily tur g over his private fortune to the receiver for the corporation 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 tm- mensely Shirley's mother, Mrs, Dand- ridge, and Major Bristow exchange rem- Iniscences during which it (s revealed that major, Vallant's father, and a man nam*d Sassoon were rivals for the hand of Mrs. Dandridge In her youth Sassoon and Valiant fought a duel on her account in which the was killed Vall ant finds Damory Overgrown i and creape sides the place. : saves the bite of a snake, which i 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 Sq uthall and Major Brist: YW acted as his father's seconds. Valiant and Shirley become good friends Mrs SR HA faints when she meets Valiant for the first time, Vallant dl«covers he has a fortune in old walnut trees s vearly tournament, a survival of the for sting of feudal times, is held at Damory court. At the last moment Vallant takes the place of one of the knights, who is sick, and enters the lists. He wins and chooses Bhiriey Dandrige as queen of beauty to the dismay of Katherine Fargo, a former sweatheart, who is visits in Virginia The tournament ball at ¥ court draws the elite of the cr om at ne Da InLry CHAPTER XXIV.—Continued. To the twanging of the deft black fingers, they passed in gorzeous array betwoen files of low-cut gowns and flower-like faces and masculine low-tails, to the yellow parlor ther® the music ceased wit crash, the eleven kni upon one knee waiting curtsied low, ed upon the dais, head to ghts each dropped ladies in- and Shirley, seat. leaned her burnished | receive the What | though the bauble was bris board, its feweled tinsel and paste? On her trembled, a true diadem. the eleven crown but Oi chasing but head It glowed and As Vallant | i | moonlighted garden at Rosewood, she had lain stant then trapped wood-thing her slender body swaying motion, she was another creature, resisting. Now to his every of her gown; her lips were parted, and as they moved, he could feel her heart rise and fall to her languorous breath. CHAPTER XXV. By the Sun Dial. Eyes arched with fan-shielded whis- pers, and fair faces, foreshortened as they turned back over powder-white shoulders, followed thelr swallow-like movement. From an circle of masculine devotees Katharine Fargo watched them with a smile that cloaked an increasing and unwelcome question Katharine handsome; a had never looked more critical survey of her mirror at Gladden Hall had assured her of that. Never had her polse been mere superb, her toilet more enraptur. ing. She was exquisitely gowned in rose-colored mousseline-de-sole, em. in tiny brilliants laid on in patterns. From her neck, in a splendid loop of iridesce Greek single against the kind leve,” as Betty fided to her partner—on paper reproduction (actual metropolitan shop-girls had pearis—' you Page con whose news. " diameter) been wont : and with on her rounded ing eyes in their milky breast circlet, nd wonderful coils presence was singing a in his blood. His coronation flowery periods ve rolled from the ma} 1d chosen a single paragraph he had lights an old book in the IHrary the last Crusade ter He the arc quaint feeling of the origir i noble knights bow pres fair lady, as their leige, whom they now as even in judgm as dainty in fulfilling these ou of and do recommend their all the m wigie of her swift melody ad iress as or's soul would He ~-a h French had translate haie phi These in your ence acts arms, as they can. whole story the Ila 186 which have been only wont to dis the bowed kneas of kneeling hearts and, inwardly turned, found the 1s gece them, ready in heart and hands not only vailing.” A hu: foud feet : testified to a It was had of and n O queen. of virtue is beaut in whom the of ¥. Your eves, | cern able with to assailing but to pre hed rustle of merest whisper applause the widespread the first sight many John Valiant and in both 1 1ianner he fitted their be woks st ideals for the music, whic! 1y into a march beside him knights and the for the royal quadrille. fashioned lancers, but 1 throbbed sudden and she stepped down Couple after lad ranged lies, behind | in the ! thing of the stately effect of the mi | uet to conversation, and John Valiants and Shirley's was necessarily limited “The decorations are simply deli cious!” she said as they faced other briefly. “How did you fe 7" manage “Home talent with a vengeance. Un cle Jefferson and 1 did it with our lit tie hatchets. But the roseg—" Watching that quadrille through | drooping received a sudden sion of Shirl emerald-tinted eyes, she nlightening im flawless at her fleoting glimpse the other merely sweetly Chalmers’ surrey had for but in she had then been isible. ‘this had been Kath arine’'s first adequate view, and sight of her radiant charm ha effect almost of a blow For Katharine be urrendered traction that had her the teurney field. And what had lain al ways In the back of ber mind as a half formed inte had become a if self during the Y's the tournament had adjudged pretty The wpped en her wraps and vel’ all but route Shirley, iny the the had who yet new, 15 at- aid ania to the old, gw apt on ntion, motor I'n another moment the wa out, to be by a and presently the host cloak, was dofling his plumed hat be fore her. Circling the polished floor in there was gratefully like former days in the sured touch, the true and ance. The intrusive gq was the John Valiant known of flashing repa graceful compliment, with a dignity, befitted the which sat well upon After a decorous dozen of rounds, took his arm and s.owed her per suceooded in hi 8 crimson the n maze, something as ready guid uestion faded she had al rtee and touch He Ways yet toO—-n8 lgre him Lusk. “More than queen!” he said under his breath. “I had my heart get on naming you today. | reckon I've lost my rabbit-foot!” Opposite, fant's “Ah haven't seen such a lovely dance for yeahs'” she sighed. Isn't Shirley too sweet? If Ah had hair like hers, Ah wouldn't speak to a soul on earth!" The exigencies of the figure gave no space for answer, and presently, after certain labyrinthine evolutions, Shir fey's eyes were gazing into his again. “How adorable you look!" he whis pered, as he bowed over her “How does it feel to be a queen?” “This little head was never made to wear a crown,” she laughed. “Queons should be regal. Miss Fargo would have" he music swept the rest away, but net the look of blinding reproach he gave her that made her heart throb wilaly as she glided on, . . . * » » The ot note of the quadrille slip. pred into a waltz dreamily slow, and Valiant put his arm about Shirley and they floated away. Once before, in the Handsome. conducted various rooms of the ground fleor, i 4 new gallant claimed her The mellow strings made on their | ington Post marched all in flushed unity of purpose to the great muslin walled porch with its array of tables groaning under viands concocted by Aunt Daphne for the delectation of the palate-weary And then once more the waltz-etrain supervened and in the yellow parlor joy was again unconfined. Again Valiant claimed Katharine and they glided off on “The Beautiful Danube.” Her paleness now had a tinge of color, but nevertheless he thought she drooped. "You are tired,” he sald, “ehan’t we sit it ont?” "Oh, do you mind?” she responded gratefully. "It has been a fairly stren. tous day, hasn't it!” Ho guided her to a corridor, where alcove of settees and seductive cush ions, to rout. There was no drooping of fringed lds, no disconcerting si lences; she chattered with ense apd plquanny, the evening,” serve them. she said. "And vou de- It's a fine big thing you old estate. And | know you have even bigger plans, too.” He nodded, suddenly serious and thoughtful. “There's a lot I'd like to It's not only thse house and grounds. There are . things. For instance, back on mountain—-on my own land- tlement they call Probably it has well earned the name. It's a wretched eollection of hovels and surly men and drabs of women and unkempt children, the poorest of poor-whites. Not one of them ean read or write, and they live like animals. If I'm ever able, | mean to put a manualtraining school up there. And then" He ended with a half laugh, sudden. ly conscious that he was talking in a language she would scarcely { stand-in fact, in a tongue? new to him- self. But there was no smile on her { lips and her extraordinary eyes gray, shot through with emerald— do the -is a set and sympathy he would not have guessed lay cidity. To Katharine, Indeed, It made little difference what philanthropic fads the man she had chosen might a as { regarded his tenantry. Ambitions like these had a manorial flavor that did not displease her. And the Fargo mil lions would bear much harmless ham- mering. A change, subtle and lncom- municable, passed over her “1 shall think of you,” she sighed working on in this splendid For it is splendid But {ll miss you, John" I've lusions on that dare say I'm almost forgotten 3 Here | have a place” ad, leaned back against the turned toward him, the pale i on her bosom-—she that he could feel her cheek A new walilz gh its languorous meas lect pro ne SEW no d breath on Lis had begun to sis ures Placa?” she queri ed “Do you think vou had no place there? Iz it possible understand that your going has left—a void?” He looked at her suddenly, and wos fell Belore he the big of Malor appenred, looking it him It has—left a void.” she yes still downe her voice just that you do not her how. Bris tow gnawere d, ver, form a ho said her ast, low for mes” major pounced ¥ juncture, feelinely upon them at hil accusing John of the nefarious design of robbing the blage i ight ular star ¥ hen Latharine put her hand in her 1 m," her eyes dewy sr their long and her fine been he agsen and partie shading lips ever so little r best avail and she had used it moved away, her faint color helghtened, she was glad of It was better as it me to her wer Inshes tremulous ent, able mom Ag ghe When John Valiant cs he stood watchin there w an iy from him, lamination It that that placidity which he had so admired days were no mask for fires juigite husk was the Hers was the lovell tall white splendid but chill weenn him and her hrough the shimmering a breath of wet rose an impalpable cloud ne came to ang hauteur in Tha ex ness of some swept Tit like tinted gown sprayed with lilies-of the and vivid, her fixed on his. The music of a iwoatep was lan a litle later, Valiant strolled down between lifting spirelike toward a sky which bent, a silent canopy of mauve and purplish blue. . Behind them | Damory court lay a nest of woven music and laughter. The long white. muslined porch shimmered goldenly, and beside it under the lanterns dal lied a flirtatious couple or two, ghost Hke in the shadows. “Come,” he =mald. to see the sun-dial now.” pruned creepers mation of delight. The cigeus; bars of late lillesof-the-val lilies, white elematia, iris and bridal wreath, shading out into tender paler hues that ringed tha spotless purity like dawning passion, “White for happiness,” he quoted. ‘You said that when you brought me i here—the day we planted the ram blers. Do you remember what 1 aid? That some day, perhips, 1 should love this spot the best of all at Damory court.” He wag silent a moment, trae dial's rim. “When | was very litle,” fie went on—"hardly more than three { Years old. 1 think-—my father and 1 hed sn play, in which we lived in a ' great mansion like this. It was called die of the Never-Never Land of beautiful fairy country in everything happened right. | now that the Never-Never Land was Virginia, and that Wishing House w Damory court loved it! No wonder his memory turn- ed back to it always! make it as it And I want the old dial to count happy hours for me Something had crept into his tone that struck her with a strange sweet terror and tumult of mind that clutched her skirts about knees had begun to tremble and caught the other hand to her cheek in a vague hesitant gesture. The moon- flowers seemed to be great round e staring up at her “Shirley—" he sald, and now his voice was shaken with longing—"will you make my happiness for me?” She was standing perfectly still against the sun dial, both hands laced together, against her breast, on his with a strange startled look. No her she the very soul of the passionate night, throbbed the haunting barcarole of Tales of Hoffmann:” of stars and OVE" night of | an inarticulate echo of his longing. He took a step toward her, and she turn. a way of escape in hiz arms “1 love you!” he said in my bride's garden you! 1 love you, 1 you!” For one Instant she struggled. Then, slowly, her eyes turned to his. the sweet lips trembling, and something dawning deep In the dewy blue that turned all his leaping blood to quick- silver. “My darling!” he breathed, and their lips met, In that delirious sense of divine comes only with love returned For him was but the woman in his arms, the woman created for him since the foundation of the world It was Kismet. For this he had come to Virginia For this fate had turned and twisted a thousand ways. Through riot his like a blaze, ran the legend of the calendar Every man carries his fate Spon a riband about his neck.” For her, some thing seemed pass from her soul with that kiss, rome deep irrevocable thing, shy but fiercely strong, that had sprung to him at that lipcontact as to magnet The foliage about them flared up in green light and the ground her rose and i like deed sea-waves She lifted her deathly pale, but on it was lit fires of southern gir fgo.” she whispered. “sou seen me Hea held her crushed could feel his heart thudding madly “I've always known you.” he sald. “I've seen you a thousand times. 1 saw you coming to meet down a cherry blossomed lane in Kyoto. I've But he caught her closes “Heaf it now th made re at i've il for ve both completion moment had that there one the of senses, silver fo steel under feet feil face to him It was the light that burned the whitest altar Six weeks had never to him ithe is me in India we, through the padding camel's from the desert mirages are the ! Ah, 0 or foot alway ¥ Shirley, ley!” ei ed mss Shirley, CHAPTER XXVI. The Doctor Speaks. While the vibrant strings hu and sang through the roses, and mmed | the stairway, Katharine She had been would happen that spirit of what on the porch with Judge and Doctor Southall) had out under a flag-of-truce she had sent him to the right-about, laughingly de- clining to depart before royalty number followed number, knight in purple and gold had before her. Now cloak no longer flaunted among the dancers, and the white satin gown and sparkling coronal had disappeared The end of the next “round-dance” found her subsiding into the flower-banked alcove sudden ly distrait amid her escort's sallies. [It at this moment that she saw, en tering the corridor from the garden, the missing couple It was not the faint flush on Bhi: ley's cheek—that was not deep—nor was it his nearness to her, though they closely, as lovers might But there was in both thelr faces a some. thing that resurgent conventionality had not had time to cover— a trem- bling reflection of that “light that was, on sea or land”"-—which was like a death-stab to what lay far deep. an Katharine's heart, her pride drew swiftly back, dismayed at the sudden verification, and for an in- stant her whole body chilled A craving for a glass of water has served its purpose a thousand times a8 her cavalier solicitously departed to the coading draught, hom the left off, sauntered searched he But the not the and WHE stood er th ghe rose and carelessly refrain the musi lightly alr her she ped down winding path tance in smiling mask sli and with a shi face In her ha: There that was wells bitter humiliation bolt and missed three ming just anoth had er door to the oper out by A swift glance about her showed was unobserved and she step grass and along the fiona ben ch at some dis bery He the from her A d to the the shratl re 3 ver : Tha wai were nc The wave gE Ove her was one of mil she go! For John Valls the h ¢ hand had zl] but thrown herself at his feet—and he had turned away to this flame vivid girl whom he had onths! once Years 1apely she known Heavy footfalis all at ed her—t men were comin the and as she pe ghted th not as many mo wo the house There was le of a match, red crack out, its face d $04 3 n 1 flare | 1 of floating hal Major I w H % anions face e was | i comi She wal would pass; but to her novance when ghe looked again, they had seat. ed themselves on &8 beneh a tow paces away To be f bery her shadow ted, thinking they an und in the shrub. like & hoo ri df ot but r and Oars mooning lonan 10 Pee half arisen, when voiced companion caused her to sit as he hac Erus that course, the ma Sometimes Thus. That cry in a London paper of who “finda It oer tnaintain that appearance so essential in his profession™ carries one back to the past with a Jerk. Back to the days appearance was not al ways ial” to the writer. One recalls Samuel Boyse, a contemporary of Johnson, for instance, who worked when his clothes were in pawn. His dress pledged, he would spend a few shillings thus acquired on meat to eat with his truffles and mushrooms and then take to his bed. There he would get under a blanket, slit to al low free play of his pen hand, and start work with a will jour. to when "80 easent only i MADE HIM FEEL LONESOME Sam Blythe, on the Water Wagon, Found That He Had No One to Play With, Two years ago Sam Blythe, the writer, elected to mount the water cart. He became boastfully, painfully, selfishly arid. For a time false friends tried to lure him back into the shack: les—hetween September 15, 1911, and of whisky from 312 persons—but they finally gave it up as a bad job. The other day Blythe was talking with two serfs of the demon at the Waldorf By and by their mania came upon them. They began te edge toward the bar, “Well, sald. “No,” sald Blythe. “Dunno. You may not eare to have me ih your lit: tle party, but I am golng right along I will drink water, or buttermilk, or ginger ale, or any non-alcoholic thing you say, but 1 am vot golug to stay out here all alone.” “Why, Sam, you're weicsme,” sald the bond slaves, fecnly. Sam, ses you later,” they "No, 1 am not,” sald Biythe. “1 can tell by the tone of your voices. I spent the best 20 years of my life making a collection of drinking friends, and now 1 have no one to play with "Cincinnati Times Star. Concave Cinema Screen. Eliminating false perspective and making every portion of the picture equally distant from the projecting light, a Chicago inventor has patent ed and placed on the market a con- cave screen for which much ls claim- ed. The screen fs a segment of a sphere, the lens of the projecting ap paratus being at the focal point of the screen, and as a result all the rays of light strike the surface at the same angle, and are reflected to the visitors without distortion. 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