SYNOPSIS.
favorite,
aliant cor.
soclety
<}
John Vatlant, a rich
suddenly discovers that t
porati which his father founded and
which was the principa source of his
wealth, had falled. He voluntarily rns
over } private fortune “to the receiver
for t} poration. His entire remaining
posse s consist of an old mot
whits dog and Dan
lect estate In Virs
Damory court he
ridge.
cides that he
mensely
idge, and
inisconces
that the
man named
hand of Mrs
Vallant’s father, and a
Sassoon were rivals for
Dandridge In her youth
Sassoon and Valiant feught a duel on her
account In which the former was killed
Vaillant finds Damory court overgrown
with weeds and creepers and decides to
rehabilitate the place Vallant saves
8hirley. from the bite of a snake, which
bites him. Knowing the deadliness of the
bite, Shirley sucks the poison from the
wound and saves his life. Valliant learns
for the first time that his father |
ginia on account of a duel In whi
tor Southall and Maj« Bristow
his father's seconds Valiant and
become good frienda Mrs. Damn
faints when she mosis Vallant fo
first time. Valiant discovers that
a fortune In old walnut trees. The
tournament, a surviv of tha fousting
feudal times, { ry
the last moment
of one of the knights
enters the lists He
8hirley Dandridge as qu
the dlsmay of Katherine rE
gweeth who Is visi
The tournament ball
draws the 3f the country
lev is ¥ aliant
beauty is Shirley
and they engaged
Fargn, to
ant
ant
art
CHAPTER XXIX.—Contir
The inquiry was drowr n
from several chi
scrambled to th
ful glances over
man who had be t
bush had risen and was coming
them at a slouching amble,
dragging slightly. His }
deed, was enough to cause panle,
e face, set now in a grin, ¢
costume, he
ldrer
pear
his savar
his tramp-like
flerce and animal
black, the children flad
rabbits, older ones dragging
without a backward look—all
Rickey, who stood quite still 1
ening eyes fixed on him in
blanched fascinated terror
He came close
his eves from hers, th
grimy hand under her chin
ber twitching face upward,
lo 3K a
like White
like startle
younger
save
wid
to her, never
en put his heavy
and turned
uckl
“Ain't afeard, d
with admiration. “Wou
with th’ fine folks’ white]
‘uns! Know who I am, dor
“Gree! King.”
Rickey's
formed than
“Right
spoke the name
An’ 1
jes’ th' same look
no higher'n my kne
th’ Dome no mo’,
Honing an’ a eddic
ter make ye ar
gweel ydovey
from th’ lovin’
step-parient, eh?”
8 small
know you, too
ez when ye wuzn't
duck
embrace
Rickey
out and her
arm went
fingers tore
“There He Goes!” He Said With Bit
ter Hatred.
she burst in a
“don’t you even
I'l kill
band. “Don’t you,”
paroxysm of passion;
speak her name! If you do,
you!”
So flerce was her leap that he fell
back a step in sheer surprise.
hs laughed loudly, “Why, ye
spittin’ wile-cat!” he grinned.
He leaned suddenly, gripped her
wrist and covering her mouth tightly
with his palm, dragged her behing a
clump of dogwood bushes. A heavy
step was coming along the wood.path
He held her motionless and breathless
in this cruel grip till the pedestrian
had passed. It was Major Bristow. his
epruce white hat on the back of his
head, his unsullied walstecoat dappled
with the leaf-shadows. He stepped
out briskly toward Damory court,
swinging his stick, all unconscious of
the flerce scrutiny bent on him from
behind the dogwoods.
Greef King did not withdraw his
band till the steps had died in the dis.
tence. When he did, he clenched his
fist and shook it in the alr. “There
he goes!” he sald with bitter hatred.
“Yer noble friend that sent me up
for six years t' break my heart on
th’ rock-plle! Ob, he's a top-notcher,
|
he is! But he's got Greef King to
reckon with yit!" He looked at her
balefully and shook her.
“Look a-vere,” he said In
volce. “Ye remember me.
one ter fool with, Yer maw foun’
out, I reckon. Now ye'll promise me
ye'll tell nobody who ye've seen. I'm
nly a tramp; d'ye hear?”
roughly.
Rickey’'s
I'm a bad
fingers and
the
face.
He shook her again viclously,
blood pouring into his scarred
Ye snivelin’ brat, ye!" he snarled.
“I'll show yer!" He began to drag
her after him through
few yards and
of the headlong ugly chasm of Lovers’
Leap. She cast one desperate look
about her and shut her eyes. Catching
her about the walst he leaned
and held her out in mid-air, as {f she
had been a kitten. “Ye ain't seen me,
hev yer? Promiee, or over ye go. Ye
won't look so pretty when ye're
layin' down there on them rocks!”
The child's was paper-white
and she had begun to tremble llke a
leaf, but her eves remained closed.
" he deliber
face
“One two counted
Her eves opened.
huddering glance
brok She clu
broke wild supple
e, 1 promise!
She tu
below,
rned
then
resolution tehed
into
‘she cried
I promise!”
e said
I've
ut at the
no steady
forth
but with : *nutle constancy
the
downpour whic
ending.
that gave
Hscomfort
»f sudden
i lisconsolate
pools the roadside
ick,
gray bri
lage
high-light the
by Th
*
s not
gh a
that shone on the fol
too th however,
Mama!
ism
and touched
soaked blue
ross the drip
raying akeins of mist
ied in the
here and
intervals
Wan
flooded
cattle
il & mourn
there,
The indoors had
her She was
She wants
} ebhy mist
wet rain In
snd cam
* TAN upstairs
a om
with leath alters and a soft
thus accoutered
“Lawdy-mercy
goin
'
Emmaline saw her
1 disapproval
urged;
rainin’
“I'm neither sugar
1
line,” responded
“you ain't
It's dawgs
nor salt, Emma
Shirley listlassly
her raincoat, "and the
do me good
cats en
walk will
On the sopping
up at her mother's w
ight of the ba
iawn she glanced
the
0 panging self
overiaid the fine
ive sssociation
had been
her
indow Since
i ber ow
ess had
gonsit
She
and
them
between
full of horrible
must betray her
her loss of 8p
feeling that face
ind the
be guessed
Her
troubled
cause of
mother, had, in fact,
by this, but was
guessing the truth. A
had
Valiant,
followed
and she
tournament
first
not
her
had
sight of
Inter to translate
the light of her own disc overy.
flitted to her that
might hold something deeper than
{riendship in Shirley's acquaintance
with Vallant, it had been of the
vaguest. His choice of her as Queen
in
had saved his life
There was fn her mind a more ob
vious explanation of Shirley's altered
demeanor. “Perhaps it's Chilly Lusk.”
she had sald to herself.
bad a foolish quarrel, 1
well, in her own time
me."
Ab,
tell
wonder?
she will
- » -. . . . .
There was some relief to Shirley's
overcharged feelings in the very dis
comfort of the drenched weather: the
sucking pull of the wet clay on her
boots and the flirt of the drops on her
cheeks and hair. She thrust her dog
skin gloves into her pocket and held
her arms outstretched to lot the wind
blow through her fingers. The mole
ture clung in damp wreaths to her
hair and rolled In great dross down
hier cont as she went,
The wildest, most secluded walks
hati always drawn her most and she
instinctively chose one of these today
en gwine make ery.”
had forgotten the in
when he had read
now the quavering
back to her with
reality. “Fo' dah's
afeah’d, en dah's
Et's whut eat
ha'at outen de breas whut she
afeah'd of!” If it wera only fire and
water that threatened her!
She struck her hands together with
inarticulate cry. Bhe remembered
the laugh In Vallant's eyes as they had
planted the roses, the characteristic
1 he tossed the wav.
halr from his forehead--how she
named the ducks and the pea
and chosen the spots for his
and she smiled for such mem
‘em cry en
her fortune, but
prophecy came
a shivering sense of
flah en ain’
watah ain’
thing de
she
en she
de
dat
ing
had
cock
lowers;
these dear
nothing
tried to res
her life,
earth
that
meat
She
trivial things could
her in the fut
ilize that he was gone
that he was the
whom to marry
to ure
rom one
would
“Doesn't That Prove What | Say? He
Said, Bending Toward Her.
ha to
and loyalty
sald this over
varying
“You can't! No
ove Bim,
strike to the heart her
to her mother, and she
and over to herself in
phrases
how much
! His father
vour mother's |
It’
#
matter
te
ue
mother! md enough
track of tall oaks Al ad pities,
than a bridie-path, wind
igh brackenstrewn
that even the wild
found in her
hurts she had always fled to
the She
every one the black
pale dogwood and gnarled
the prickly-balled “button
the lowly mulberry and
vd oak, and walnut They
friendly and pitying coun
standing bout her with arms
rtwined. Now, with the rain weep.
ng in soughing gusts through
they offered her n r
throt
them
mwinam Lo) 7 ir
ympanionship of trees
Known them
gum and
hickory,
splors,
inte
them
0 comfort. She sud
threw herself face down on the
soaked
denly
Moss
‘Oh, God!” ghe eried “1 love him
that one evening
if 1 could only
him, and suffer some other way!
suffering, and it isnt our
We neither of us harmed any
He isn’t responsible for what
his father did-why, he hardly knew
Oh, God, why must it be so
hard for us? Millions of other people
It doesn’t scom just
Have
He's
fault!
ne!
too,
them like this!”
fog against the stareyed moss. She
wag scarcely conscious of her wet and
clothing, and the
strands of her hair. She
Was 80
the bushes-—parting now to a hurried
step that fell almost without sound on
the spongy forest soll
He was in a somewhat
walking suit of brown khaki, with a
leather belt and a felt hat whose brim.
stiff with the wet,
visor-wise
over his brow. In an In
they stood, looking at
drenched and trembling.
“How can you?
roughness that sounded akin to anger.
each other,
this!™ he lald a hand on her arm.
‘You're wet through.”
“I-~1 don’t mind the rain,” she an-
swered, drawing away, get feeling
with a guilty thrill the masterfulness
of his tone, as well as its real concern.
‘I'm often wet”
His gaze searches, her face, feature
by featuro, noting her pallor, the blue
black shadows bereath her eyes, the
Anthony's whitewashed cabin
er man gwine look in dem eyes, honey,
‘ery ng. He still beld her hands
“Shirley,” he said, “I know what you
Intended to tell me by those flowers
I went to Bt, Andrew's that night,
dark, after I read your letter.
Who told you? Your—mother?”
she “Bhe
no!" would
have told me!”
His face lighted ith
movement he her to
irley!” he cried “It shan't be
It shan’t, I tell You can't break
our lives in this! It's
thinkable "
“No,
ing
No, cried.
never
irresiet
him
an
i
ihie caught
'
you!
two like
ghe sald
IR from her
stand. You sare a
" ’
no!" piteousnly,
him don't
and
“You
man,
do understand.” he ingisted.
my TE nd my darling! It isn't right
for that spectral thing to come be
us! Why, it belonged to a past
generation! However sad the out.
come of that duel, it held no dishonor
I know only the
brought my father! It's enough
it wrecked three lives. It shan't
lke Janquo’s ghost
ours! 1 know what you
would love you the more.
love you more
but it's wrong,
“It's the
“Listen.
If she knew
bear anything
suffer lke this. You
told you her
father"
“ey
hn,
tween
too well ruin {it
wal
again,
if 1 could
dear.
"
way
It's wrong!”
only
Your loves
she
mother you
you loved
rather
have
She
her
iced hir
Was never
Why, I've
1
my dolls
carlet 3
trees sang to
I said prayers at
; Years
11 V1 « "wt =
tiki 1 went a
the
knee
were
way to sch
breath
hless
her
old. We
ised,
that prove what 1
ling toward her
far better than herself
8 your
“Could
anded, }
toget
remis
ff your
maybey
it
be sald 1}
loves you
want
FL
happiness
that mean
er boso
herg
m heaving
her — always — always! To
in 'thing—the
the tones of your
f that Oh, you don't
women feel-—how they rems
they grieve! I
you ean say till my
it can’t change it. It can't!
felt as though
with bLiru!
A helpless anger simmered
‘Buppose,” he sald bitterly,
your mother one day, perhaps
£ years, learns of your sacrifice
is likely to guess in
ink. Will it add to her pleasure.
u fancy, to d
nception of filial
that, [ suppose!-—you
ur own life?”
she de
t
To
ua
be
ded eve
lines
face voice,
know
HOw
how
oul cries o
Valiant
he were bat
the end,
iscover that out
a
of this
loyalty for it
nave spoile
She ghuddered
h “She will
earn,” she sald brokenly
“Oh, 1
ald
i
know sh
would suffer
ness
nything for my
wouldn't have
for my sake.”
His anger faded suddenly,
looked at her agein,
burning in his eyes
Shirley!”
that
wheel! 1
but you!
door
happl
her bear
; '
fut 1
any
more
he tears were
he sald.
you are
love you
I'd rat
to
“It's my heart,
binding on
too, th
her beg my bread
door with your
can there be in life for
Think of our
! Think of the fate that brought
here to find you in Virginia!
love
till we were old and gray-—together,
OH ®
darling! Don’t throw
this!"
His entreaties
our AWAY
her
[eft
unmoved She
iter,
head,
Ereatl ciear
ied dowp
him through
that welled over and rol
at
cheeks
“I can’
strength
she
Bhe
sald
“l have n
put out 1
if she gpoke and
im Pp gesty
dropped It
that
lity and
ht at his heart more strongly than
words He felt a
and tenderness,
hand
and pressed it
It eeemed to him very small
had in
fi hopelessness
warm gush of
piLy
He
speak!
!
ith
i
gently without
took her at
ng,
iis lips
and cold,
They
arainst
gh the
gulding
and
passed
bracken,
together throu
his strong arm
} path
uneven came
to the open silence
“Don't with
and without
went rapidly
mering road,
in
come ghe
me,’ gaid
a backward glance,
from him down the shim-
CHAPTER XXXI,
The Evening of an Old Score,
Rat-tat-tat-tat-tat! —Major Bristow's
CRIN pI i wood
Ie great
had a
used
without
or stick
of Damory
tang of impa
door
the Kno Ker
"
SNOW
nareh
a porch
stentorian
Te
o ©
+
de Lawd
John
Wy
sence
breakfa
ergin et
nattah, suh?™
lak sump!
seem
5
‘Peahs
Don
The major lo
Isn't he well?
uh. Ain’ et no m
sin hd f{ -
FAG ow
lonesome lak
don’ sing no
r'n er
Ae 1s ’ fa w
dese las days
Alin’
aftah de
mo’
planny sence de day
Me en He
1 Daph me pestered
cake and
juleps.’
head
up all dat mint
in.” he sald, “but ain’ do
Majah, h's sho’ ‘feahed
gwineter happen
¥ malor
30 180!
: eniffed
"hat fool idea's got under your wool
Been seeing Mad Anthony
11 o
| bet
~
i a dollar
Jeflerson
feeming
swallowed once or
difficulty and
ith his toe "Dat's
gloomily “Ah done see
yuddah day ‘bout et
He see tro 8 er
én trouble ergwine., Dat same
hossshoe drop offen de
en dis ve'y mawnin' er
fiy inter de house. Das’
er mighty bad boodoo, er mighty bad
hoodoo!”
“Shucks!”™
as
signe
gravel w
8a
de old m de
he row!
ir
in
ni}
night
stable
de
do’,
buhd done
said the major. “You're
old Anthony, with your
{f your Mars’ John's
as joony
infernal
up before
while,”
the
that
son
long I'l wait for him a
He started in, but paused on
threshold “Did you say-—ah--
mint was all gone, Unc’ Jeffer
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