ILLUSTRAT!
ATTORNEYS,
ATTORFEAY AP LAY
Eniarosth Bh
Tae Lov@ of Done Bouse
SYNOPSIS.
John Valiant, a rich soclety favorite,
suddenly discovers that the Vallant cor.
poration, which his father founded and
which was the principal source of his
wealth, had failed. 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 nexg-
lected estate in Virginia. On the way to
Damory court he meets joey Dand-
ridge, an auburn-haired beauty, and de-
cides that he Is going to llke Virginia Im
mensely, Shirley mother,, Mrs. Dand.
ridge, and Major Bris ow exchange rem
Inlscences 4d which it is revealed
that th 3 Valiant's father, and a
man named Sassoon were rivals for the
hand of Mrs. Dandridge In her youth
Bassoon and Valiant fought a duel on her
account which the fosmer was killed
Valiant finds Damory court vargrown
with weeds and creepers
rehabilitate tha place Valiant
Shirley from the bita of a snake, whi
bites } Knowing the deadliness of t
bite, ‘ay sucks the poison from the
wound 1! saves his life, Vallant le
for the first time that his father left Vir
gina on account of a duel in which Doe
tor Bouthall and Mailor Bristow acted as
his father's seconds. Vallant and Shirley
become good friends Mrs Dar iridge
fainta when she n Valiant for the
first time. Valiant vers th he has
a fortune in old walnut trees raaris
toarnament, a survival of the jou
foudal times, is held at Damory
the last moment Valiant takes
of one of the knigxhts wi
eiters the lists He wins
iirley Dandridge as queen
ismay of Katherine
} rt. who is i
in
m
who caused
an
who looks so m
ley, uncertain
fr was love
ant's pisto i
Kin zg. a }
Bristow had
ag" his
with . 3 4
to change her Aerts
fatally wounded hy Gree
fora dying he confesses
ridge that he had kept
1 r
had written to her
CHAPTER XXX! Continued.
In the little haircloth trunk back In
her room lay book. It
held a few leaves torn from letters and
many ings From
there she had known of his work. his
marriage, the great
cess for which his
the name that from
ing, the had so seldom taken
lips. Some of them had d«
his habits and idiosyncrasies,
an altered personality, and aloo
or loneliness that had set his
and made him, way, a stranger to
those who should have known him
best. Thus her
hold a double image
these shadowed forth,
she had loved,
in the locket she we
breast, It
printed on
Valiant
porch at
have risen,
grave,
He
wri
Mar rr
eling that
in
net
Shirley
Frpr
1 Ar Ty
an old scrap
newspaper clip:
name had stood
upon her
alt with
hints of
ye
art
tm on
ia
mind h ome to
» ETAYE man
and man
outhful face was
re always on her
this face that
heart, and wt
the
whose 3
was
her
had stood
Rosewoo
en
before her
1, it had
instinet, from
on
seemed
that
had
tten!
nof kent silence! He had
It
like a muffled bell
ant was gone with
room by lay that
who would never s
the Hfelong friend-—who had
failed her thirty years ago!
and in a tin box a m away
ter.
“He won't rouse
through her
But
pealed
Vali-
th
Beauty
her youth; in
old
rr al ¥
peak to ber
near
again,
ile a let
lay
the doctor |
He Went Upstairs, Into the Bedrooms
One by One.
had said, but a little later, as he and
Valiant sat beside the couch, the major
opened his eyes suddenly
“Shirley,” he whispered.
Shirley?"
She was sitting on the porch just
outside the open window, and when
she entered, tears were on her face
The doctor drew back silently: but
when Valiant would have done so, the
major called him nearer,
“No,” he panted; “I like to see you
two together.” His voice was very
weak and tired.
As she leaned and touched his hand,
he smiled whimsieally, “It's mighty
curious,” he sald, “but | can't get it
out of my head that its Beauty Vald
ant and Judith that I'm really talking
to. Foolish—isn’t {t?" But the idea
seemed to master him, and presently
he began to call Shirley by her moth
o's name, An odd youthfulness crept
into his eyee; a subtle paradoxica’
boylshness. His cheek tinged with
“Where's
color. The deep lines about his mouth
smoothed miraculously out.
“Judith,” he whispered, "“—you—
sure you told me the truth a while ago,
when you said--you sald—"
“Yes, yes,” Bhirley answered, put-
ting her young arm under him, think
ing only to soothe the anxiety that
geemed vaguely to thread some vague
hallucination.
He emiled
easier,” he sald.
again. “It makes ft
He looked at Valiant,
his mind seeming to slip farther and
farther away. “Beauty,” he gasped,
‘you didn't go away after all, did you!
[ dreamed it—I reckon. It'll be-
right with you both.”
He sighed peacefully, and
turned to Shirley's and closed.
| so glad,” he muttered, “so
i didn't really do it, Judith.
been the—only-
| —l—eaver did.”
The doctor went swiftly to the
and beckoned to Jereboam.
now, Jerry,” he said in a
quickly.”
The old
the couch
Is you' gwine as
Is vo'? Mars’
The cracked but loving voice struck
the of the falling se
8 major opened
his
“I'm
glad
It
nave
door
"Come in
low
his knees by
ried
* Jer
on
he
void nee
3
ais
For a last time th
CHAPTER XXXII.
Renunciation.
grim gse that
The
haste
gathered
Its
dene
: uildos whose
be joyful
mper as his
r took him Into icoming armas.
Next day the major was carried to
his in the myrtle
At the ce the old
crowded to (ts doors.
pled a Ramble place at
others, he knew, were
he. The
ame diml
iy
bark trail
final
At
h was
nt ©»
reat
1
St drew’s ger
ehure
cu
me side——the
older friends that
late afternoon through
fa
ia
to clothe with subtle
the as
colors the
rector he read the
ponses
ly, and their
Valiant
the Go tor
faces
face of
grim
yond
Many glanced
will had been
were tears on m
thao
ness
him
few there
n that
Jered
DOREOR BE
Miss Mattie
between,
Sue was be
and wan
sat Rickey Snyder. Shirley's
ing amall
shoulders ae if it would stay the
grief that
)K them
The
darkened
Miss
hell »
ail the
yut the
of
sho
evening before had been further
by chiid’s disappearance
Mattie Sue had sat through
night in tearful anxiety. It
was Valiant who had solved the riddle
{In her first wild compunction, Rickey
ed out the story of her meet
Greef King, his threat and
terrorized silence, and when
i of this he had guessed her
He had
the de
the
and
[ns]
whereabotts
the Dome, in
i which on a snowy night
had rescued her
her shabbiest
| and trinkets left behind, taking with
her only a string blue glass beads
| that had been Shirley's last Christmas
8lX Years ago,
here in
dress,
of
“Let me stay!” she had walled
not fit to live down there! It's all my
are in Hell's Ha'f-Acre
and ever!” Valiant had car
i ried her back in his arms down
| mountain-
wal
He thought of this now as he saw
| that arm about the child in that pro
| tective, almost motherly gesture.
made his own heariache more unbear
{able. Buch a little time ago
felt that arm about him!
He leaned his hot head against the
cool plastered wall, trying to keep his
mind on the solemn reading. But Shir-
ley's voice and laugh seemed to be
running eerily through the chanting
lines, and her face shut out pulpit and
lectern. It swept over him suddenly
that each abominable hour could bat
make the situation more impossible
for them both, He had seen her as
she entered the church, had thought
her even paler than in the wood, the
bluish shadows deeper under her eyes,
Those delicate charms were in eclipse.
And It was ha who was to blame!
It came to him with a stab of en.
lightenment. He had been thinking
only of himself all the while. But for
her, it was his presence that had now
become the unbearable thing. A cold
sweat broke on his forehead. *
for | am a stranger with thee, and a
sojourner; as all my fathers were, O
spare me a little, that I may recover
my strength before 1 go hence :
The intoning volee fell dully on his
WMS,
To go away!
il ought to stay h
i forever
To pass out of Le
life, to a future empty of her?
could he do that?
ed from her in the rain he had felt a
frenzy of obstinacy. It had seemed so
clear that the barrier must in the end
yield before their love. He had never
thought of surrender. Now he told
himself that flight was all that was
left him. 8She-—her happiness—noth-
ing else mattered. Damory court and
its future-—the plans he had made—
Valiant name-——in that clarifying in-
he knew that all these, from that
May day the Red road,
stant
on
about her. She had
tion of all.
“Lead, kindly
gloom"
The voices the unvested choir
rose clearly and some one at his side
ering that this had been
‘favorite hymn. But
heard
the service was ended the
illed the big yard while the
nt words were spoken at the
been the inspira.
Light,
of
the
he
was whisg
major's
en
Wh
i
: §
i
i
She Tried to
Coming te
Years Agol
Letter
Thirty
imagine That
Her—Then.
Valliant, standing with
saw Shirley, with her mother and the
doctor, pass out of the gate, She was
not looking towerd him. A mist was
before his as th drove away,
and the fon of her re waver
4 t i wry 1
ing and Indistin¢ pale blurred
the rest,
ayes they
nained
face
He realized
vard
cking
iy to
ty and the sexton
door He
was em was
went
taide
%
i
t
»
the church
gate, and ju
to him. It was
Lusk They had not u
Even
ight sf the s 11
KLION. Valiant
all
¢ seemed to have los
youthfulness, It w
sleaplessness, and
that touched
16y stood
Vallant knew
ted to say.
about the bush.”
“I've got
reckon
Shirley"
touched the young
“Yes,” he said, “I think [ know.”
no new thing, with me sald
the other hoarsely. "It's been three
vears. The night of the ball, I thought
that-] don't mean ask
what you might have a right to resent
but I must find out. Is there any
reason why I shouldn't try my luck?
Valiant shook his head. “No.” he
sald heavily, "there i¢ no reason
The boyish look sprang back to
Lusk’'s face. He drew a long breath
“Why, then 1 will.” he said “J=1'm
sorry if I hurt you. Heaven knows |
the #t ou
one { is
spoke
AR
had a
him
look
what
uffering
once.
ch other,
while tl
r had wa
beat
stammering
somethin I
that
sald
to ask
you've
won't
guessed that
Valiant fellow's
arm
“rer
it's
to
He grasped the other's hand with a
and Valiant
ightclenched at his side.
. - - - » * .
A later Vallant climbed th
sloping driveway of Damory court. It
seemed to stare at him from a thou
sand reproachful eyes. The bachelor
red squirrel fron his tree-croteh
down at him askance. The
redbirds, flashing through the hedges,
Fire-Cracker,
the peacock, was shrieking from the
upper lawn and the strident discord
seemed to mock his mood.
little
make no other.
brought
grown to be a part of It,
should remain
laid to the walnut grove. As his fa
ther had done, he would leave behind |
him the life he had lived there, and |
the old court should be once more |
closed and deserted Uncle Jefferson
and Aunt Daphne might live on in the |
cabin back of the kitchens. There |
was pasturage for the horse and the
cows and for old Sukey, and some
acres had already been cleared for
planting. And there would be the
swans, the ducks and chickens, the
peafowl and the figh,
A letter had come to him that morn.
ing. The corporation had resumed
utiness with credit unimpaired. Pub
ie oririon was more than friendly
and they
iow. A place waited for him there,
and ove of added honor bh 8 concern
already looked forward to a new ca-
jut he thought of
thrill. The old life
There were still
spaces somewhere
this now with no
no longer called.
wide unpeopled
less needed, and there
der the great gray columns, his steps
spiritless and kmgging. The Virginia
creeper, trailing over {ts end, waved
to and fro with a sound like a eigh.
18 would it be before the lawn
was once more unkempt and draggled?
Before burdock and thistle, mulle
and Spanish-needle return to
smother the clover? Before Damory
court, on which he had spent such
loving Leno would lle again as it
that afternoon when had rattied
her on Uncle Jefferson's crazy
hack? Before there would be for him,
in some faraway corner of the world,
only Wishing-House and the
Never land?
In the
fore the
1
would
lay
he
thit
oment be-
eyes on its
. phrase
hall he stood a m
fireplace, his
carven motto, “1 clinge the
pear-thrust He
wander restlessly through the
was like a & began to
111
like
ng-room looked
the little lady |
had
a 1 rowliin
been
dy seomed
Devil-John,
yf his leap
ically at |
The shu i
threw them
light
ing from
and weaving a
in the prisms of
ET
open
erce the yell
the figures
+h
t Lou
BAN
inhbows the
bed ros
then passing
‘halr-back
r a frame
the wal
childish
slood
records of
The dolls now rade
and
#1
ttle
dress-pa
in glass ht
solors
tha
cares, prints In brig
were
shutters
me time on the
fear people, on
ie the
H opened
i
i
and stood »
efore he turned and went
downstairs
rough the rear door he could
and Aunt Daphne sift
impet-vine plecing
with
kitchens
3 +.
’ 10 in
calico ¢ t
BiiCO quilt
and
Qa
little equ:
and green
utive darkies were sg
looking up at her =
¢, while a wary ban.
iously about their
Ire d
rawied
* 5
:
de roostah say.
wnt
Aun
‘Or
wifes,
Daph?
roostah he ho
Oey !
O00 1
come!
Hah
oon!
Mars’
to all he
Young
come!
Uo
Mars’ Young
Young Mars’ come!’ En dey all mighty
skeered, ‘case Mars’ John he cert'n’y
fond ob fried chick’n. But de big tub
key gobbler he don’ b'leeve ‘tall.
Doubtful-—doubtful
lak dat. Den de drake he peep eroun’
de cornah. en he say, ‘Halsh! Haish!
Haish!® Fo’ he done seed Mars’ John
comin’, sho’ nuff jut et too late by
den, fo’ Aunt Daph she done grab
Pull en Mars’ John he gwine
bery evenin’ fo’ he
Now you chillun runs erlong
home ter yo' mammies, en don’ yo’
pick none ob dem green apples on d«
way, neidah”™
it was not till after dark had come
that Valiant said goodby to the gar
den. He loved it best under the star
light. He sat a long hour under the
pergola overlooking the lake,
ot
iet,
he could dimly see the green rocks,
and the white froth of the water bub
bling and chuckling down over their
¥
The lifted and
out
the little lamps of stars. Under its
light a gossamer mist robed the land
scape In a shimmering opalescence,
their
values and became transmitted to sil
ver eentinels, watching over a de
mesne violet-velvet shadows filled
with sleepy itterings and stealthy
ngs and the odor of wild honey-
suckle,
At the last he stood before the old
Suzdial, rearing its column from its
pearly clusters of blossoms. “1 count
no hours but the happy ones:” he read
inscrip with n indrawn
Then, groping at its base, he
the ivy that had once rambled
and drew up the tangle again
he stone disk. His Bride's-Gar
’
Lie
moon finally
fv
of
tw
tion
the library, an hour
big black
later, sitting
arias Sure z tan)
plgeonholed desk, he
“oy spd .
i tonight on the
le Jeflerson
am leaving
tes Une will
3 note in
not stay Dar
more pair
very far
feelin
at
are
and I shall
. always!”
CHAPTER XXXII.
The Voice From the
Past.
the A . r : fe
Th eft the
here
dridge
AITIAR
box the
the key
while
tt
room
her hands
she sat
since first the littl sy 1} lain In
1¢ had been
Now
was
her palm like a
all afire the
a aimost
hat 1
that |
Thirty
imagine etter's
hen years
gol
bors had i
Loo,
jen
ae
to her
she
that
have
have
room
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Talk has the reputation of
cheapest thing is
being the
there As supply
to do with values, doubtless the sup
counter value
Things that
qualit ¥
If talk were conf
done
are cheap lack enduring
ned to the things
the thing said, it
would have a greater value
Some one asked Edison if he experi.
enced much inconvenience on account
He replied that he
thanked God for it every day, since it
protected him from the distracting ef-
fect of other people's talk. He could
thus live his own life, think his own
thoughts, do his own work in his world
of silence
more than to
idea Concerning Battle of
New Orleans Has Been Found
to Be Correct,
bs
Interest in the slumbering cotton.
battle plan in an abandoned trunk in
| the celler of the St. Charles hotel
| Little is known about the drawing or
the other centants of the trunk which
has remained unnoticed for years in a
dark corner.
Five veterans of the battle have
added their signatures to the remark.
able map to attest the fact that It is
8 mis representation of the battle
plan as made under the direction of
Andrew Jackson by his military engi:
neer, H. Laclotte. It shows a line of
cotton bales which a marginal note
says was 1,000 feet long with a pro
longment extending 600 feet Into the
woods. Some historians deny the
story about the use of cotton bales.
The live veterans who say
seph 8t. Cyr, Jean Lamothe,
Gervals.
appear ir the footnotes.
ly, says the New Orleans Item, as it
will be of servico for the staging of
the battle, which is to be one of the
leading features of the Exposition of
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