HALL, PA.
John Valliant, a rich
suddenly discovers that
poratic wi i ! father
which was thai
wealth, has
over his pris
for the corporat!
possessions
whits
He voluntar
rtune to ti
His entir in
id 1 * CAr, a
Jory om A neg
im a way to
ts Shirley Dand-
+d beauty, and de
Virginia im-
Mrs Dand-
rem
'
afin to like
other,
ww
vie m
jor Brist
furing which
or, Valiant's father,
Sassoon were rivals f
Mrs. Dandridge In her ¥
on and Valiant fought a duel on
whic vo former was killed
ourt Overgrown
and decides to
Valiant saves
nd
'
hand of
har
. er
D
Hes
count
tha bite
Knowing the ¢ *8 8
s from
yf the
the
his fat
ae ae
Se uthall s r Bristow
father's seconds. Valiant
CHAPTER XXVI—Continued.
“Bristow, 1 5
girl’
Finest
8h
love with
And he
er as anyl
!" said the
[ ever saw
youd
a go
Hump
ly. “No man
enou h for
women marry
Lusk I used
but I've got
head, if you
fant.”
The
rine
was an
The major made an
had the effec
dropped silence. “I
of that!"
other Tesumed
bitterly
just
haven’
pearl fan
's fingers. WI
then!
exclama
open secret
t of con
The
what
lster
with
Katharine's hear
stood still
name of the
killed in that
Chalmers had told!
Shirley Dandridge’s
love with
“Was she?
The major's qus
that
conscious
about ab
‘I Ve
mothe
Sassoon!” Why
seem
rtainly
she
would
he brok
to a quarre
“You
busafly
“Not under the
fant was forced int
at that day, could
be a party
po
think n " said the
circumstiar
oft. No;
have de
Katharine’s Heart Beat Fast ahd Then
Stood Still. Sassoon!
meeting. He could have explained it
to Judith's satisfaction—a woman
doesn’t need much evidence to justify
the man she's in love with. He must
have written her—he couldn't have
gone away without that-—and if she
had loved him, she would have called
him back.”
The major made no answer, Katha.
rine saw a cigar fall unheeded upon
the grass, where it lay glowing like a
vanther's eye.
The other had risen now, his stoop
ed figure bulking In the moonlight.
His voice sounded harsh and strain.
ed: “1 loved Beauty Valiant.” he said,
“and his son is His son to me—but |
have to think of Judith, too. She faint.
ed, Bristow, when she saw him--Shir
ley told me about it. Her mother has
made her think it was the scent of the
roses!
him. Every sound of his volce,
sight of his face, will be a separate
stab! Ob, his mere presence will be
enough for Judith to bear. But with
her heart in the grave with Sassoon,
what would love between Shirley and
young Valiant mean to her? Think of
He broke off,
of silence, In
almost a sigh.
him reach the
and there was a blank
which he turned with
Then Katharine saw
bench with a single
“Bristow!" he sald bruskly. “You're
ill! This confounded philander
your time of life—"
ing
but he got up with a laugh.
he said; “1 was never better in my
life! We've had our mouthful of air
“Come on b ick to the house.”
“Not much!" grunted the other.
going both ought to have
He threw away his
the path into
“I'm
Ww here we
been hours ago.”
the darkness.
looking ater
peared,
and
him
roan b
CHAPTER XXVil,
Ambush.
rer
The
er
oft
i
which
season!
SIOr
O01
the
iver
were
Katha
nat re
used
hands
fi
“yg .
geams
strange,” she sald,
ir host
scarcely
Valiant
tides in
can
John
dred
him
I've danced with a
He's been
and yet he
home if
And you
were quite one of
the same
hun
New
h &
h short while
ore at
ways
all treat him as if he
yourselves
Shirley smiled enchantingly. “Why,
d to
with us a Val
y8 a Valiant. No matte
where he has lived, he's the son ot
the master of Da
said,
Bi ut
maybe it seams od
YOu ses
hie
mory
hat's the wonderful
Englisch
part of it
somehow.”
“Is It?" sald SHirley. “1 never
thought of It. But perhaps it seems
We have the old houses and the
old names and think of them, no doubt,
in the same way."
“What a sad life
pursued Katharine dreamily
now all about the duel,
Shirley shrank imperceptibly now.
The subject touched Valiant go closely
It seemed almost as If it belonged to
him and to her alone—not a thing to
be flippantly touched on. “Yes,”
sald somewhat slowly, “every one here
knows of it"
“No doubt it has been almost forgot
ten.” the other continued, “but John's
It's
BO
“You
of course?”
the old story What was it about-—
the quarrel? A loveaffair?”
“It's so long ago,” murmured
ley
if they would.”
“Major: Bristow, perhaps”
tured Katharine thoughtfully.
“He was one of the seconds,” admit
ted Shirley unhappily. “But by com:
mon consent
talked of at the time. Men in Vir
ginia have old- fashioned ideas about
women. ‘
“Ah, It's fine of them!” paeaned
Katharine. “1 ean imagine the men
who knew about that dreadful affair.
in their southern chivalry, drawing a
cordon of silence about the name of
that girl with her broken heart. For
if she loved one of the two, it must
have been Sassoon--not Valiants else
"How terrible
conjec
s ended for him,
but the poor woman was left to bear it
all the years. 1 fancy she would never
wholly get cver it, never ba able to
forget him, though she tried.”
Shirley made reply that was
the whirring wheels. The oth-
words seemed almost an echo of
what sh If had been thinking
married after a while,
woman must make a life for
you know, If lives here,
it will be sad for her, this opening of
the old wound by John's coming
And looking so like his father—"
Katharine paused. There was a kind
exhilaration in this subtle baitlag.
Shirley stirred uneasily, and in the
glimpsing light her looked trou-
bled Katharine's had touched
and in spite of her distaste of
the subject, Shirley had been entering
into the feeling of that supposititic
woman
The judge,
telling a low
It was quickly
some
lost in
ers
© he rse
Mas
too A
her ell,
be she
she
’
face
voice
UR
on the front
story
was
his
seat,
over
toned
The Year Was That of the Due
Date Was Day
Jessamine Anniversary.
the
the
Her whole min
i beer
hergel!
of the surrey
he bad the
, and the carriage rolled
accompanime nt giggles
As it
leaned
swueght She
of
judge's peroration
the Rosewood lane she
ou have dropped said
and your
sour fan ™
gloves, too
have ched them for yor
are there already. How short
rive has seemed!”
rea
we
§ w
ive up
Shirley, and
gtrange
Don’t dr the Lige™
seemed
hersalf
lane,
her wolee
even to
wake mother.’
Katharine bade her goodby with care
as the judge bundled
her down in his strong friendly arms.
No.” she told him, “don’t come with
It's not a bit necessary Em
maline will be walting for me.”
He climbed into her vacant place as
called their good nights
sleep iate enough in the
morning, [I reckon,” he sald with a
iaugh, "but it's been a great success!”
» - * * . * . -
in a chalr
said
sharp and
The wheels would
ful sweetness,
me
the girls
“We'll all
Emmaline was crouched
the hall, a rug thrown over her
in open-mouthed slumber. She
Shirley's
in
Knees,
started up at the touch of
hand, vawning widely
“1 ‘clare to goodness,” she muttered
“I was jes’ fixin' t’ go t’ sleep!”
“I~1'm so tired, Emmaline
the crown. [Its heavy."
The negro woman fntangled
glittering points from the
balr with careful fingers. Po’ li'l
chickydesdea!” she sald lovingly
“Reck’n she flop all th’ feddahs outer
her wings. Gimme that o' tin crown |
=] like ter lam’ it out th’ winder!
we go upstairs soft
Take
the
meshing
in the silvery-blue bedroom, she |
deftly unfastened the hooks of the
heavy Batin gown and coaxed her mis |
tress tor lie on the sofa while she un. |
pinned the masses of waving hair till!
they lay in a rich surge over the!
cushion. Then she brought a brush
and crouching down beside her, began |
with long gentle strokes to smooth out |
the silken threads, talking to her the
while in a soft crooning monotone.
Under these ministrations Shirley
lny languid and speechless, her eyes
closed. The fear that had stricken
her heart by turns seemed a cold hand
pressing upon its beating and an algid |
vapor rising stealthily over it. But!
COLSTRAY VY
hot
nally she
you, Emm:
d voice, “good nis
and you
hands
burned. Fi
"Thank
in a tire
Eoing
bed, too.’
wero and her eyelids!
roused herself i
ghe sald
I'm;
to
line
ht now,
must go
to sleep,
dark, |
at the |
seizin ig
and in-
shadow of
numbing wings. Vas her mother
one over whom old due)
been fought? She remembered
cape jesgamines Was the
that duel-—of death of
her mother kept?
Then
0
WAS
dread, noiseless
the
folding }
pn her,
tangible,
its
the had
the
date of {
the Sasgoon.—
She sat up in bed, tren
she rose. and
crept
’ LEP
hot hand
bling
the door with
the stair sliding
her along the
polished banister. As she passed
through the lower hall, a hound on the
tirred, thun
cpening
dow n
before
caution
her
cool
porch, scenting her, 1ped
mn the
way
flooring, whined
to the
chamber employed as a general re
a glorified ga
rret, as Mrs
fro y
through
14th; Ed
wenty-sixth
with a
willl a
room
SROON 8
The 1
Court
who had
Damory
eT
nan niuieqg
‘Oh, she whis;
God,”
Js
I was so sther,
You loved
when he
broke it
father!”
when happy!
him, atd
lied it
- Valiant
mother!
heart
your
was
Val
broke
Valiant who
iant His
slipped
and efouchad the
onized,
bare
shuddering
led hair wet
with tears Was her love to be but
the thing of an hour, a sin clasp
and then, forever, nothing? His fa.
ther's deed was not his fault, Yet
how could she love a man whose every
feature brought a pang to that mother |
loved more than herself?
and over, the wheel of
ght turned in the same desolate
groove, and over and over the parox
yems of grief and longiug submerged
her
Nolsalessly as she haa descended,
she crept again up the stair. As she
She
floor
and ag
down upon the
re
her disheve
ale
she S50,
over her
thou
Staff cf Life Made Use of by Cave
Dwellers Is Cultivated Today in
Switzerland.
How old is bread? Diagrantied |
boarders may have theories upon the
age of the particular bread served to
them, but that is beside the question
So long as records of civilized man
go back bread has been the staff of
life. It is somewhere in the history of
prehigtoric man that man first learned
vain, make dough and
bakesit on hot stones.
In the time of neolithic man, when
one branch of humanity for defense
drove piles In the edges of Swiss lakes
and bullt huts on their tops, bread was
made. That much at least {s certain
These stone age progressives had
learned to reap grain and probably to
cultivate it in a rude way. They pos.
sessed wheat of several varieties, bar
Curlously
enough, two of these prehistoric varie,
ties are still cultivated In Switzerland
not far from where the lake dwellers
These are the ble mottu, still grown
in ‘La QGruyare, and jthe nouette de
*
passed her mother's
a moment
ACTORS
GOOr,
and laying her
it, pressed her lips
the
to the
grain of wood
CHAPTER XXVIIL
The Awakening.
passed the
Vallant awoke
Abou
vded with flyl
ben Ad
ng
fact of
an
ona great
at the core
and his
his eves opened
day.
watch and
laugh
iain
these images,
sil at
He
rom
once, to the new
11a
rolled
“Past
“Good heavy
work 1 had
iooked
the bed wit} a
laimed.
all the
twelve!” he
What
laid out for
exe
' abhmnt
“nn abou
today?"
was rulashing
his curved
ut Chur
barkir
Presently he
lake,
unerring of walter
danced about rim
wet a valorous pas
the
ing
shocting
jets
under
the
bank to escs
terraces
new rapt
QUICKLY
ho
He tried
it marvelous
about the gardens
iat additio
el
to work
a a] i
ay-bed—a
end
cium
farther
the
there now
steeds stam
day, good he
sound walnut
How he
peered into stable
horse stood
more
one
ith
hil
go gallop
roads, in that
in those stalls
flesh bought w
ber from the
from th igide
Shirley would
gleaming
wher
Uncle
g over those
roseate future
1 #he belonged to him!
Jefferson, from the
itchens, watched him
sunehine, wh
Serenade
{TO BE CONTINIDED)
door of
swinging
istling the
the k
t in 4
in ue
Indian
a
To Remove Spats From \ Varnish,
One of best substances to use
in removing spots from varnished sur
faces is butter. The stronger the bet.
ter
the
Lausanne,
rom the Caucusus, but no one
the
dwellers came to have it
to make a coarse meal of the grain,
and even fragments of the bread have
been kept in the clay vessels that es
caped fracture
It is due to the lake dwellers’ cus.
tom of building their houses on piles
that we know go much about them
The mud beneath their huts made an
excellent trap to preserve things for
the modern scientist.
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