HALL, PA. SYNOPSIS. John Valiant, a rich suddenly discovers that poration, which nis father which was the principal wealth, had falled He voluntarily turns over his private Jorti 1e 10 the rec for the corporation His entire remaining possessions consist of un white bull dog and Dumory lected estate in Damory court he m ridge, an auburn cides that he Is going mensely Shirley's mother, Mrs. Dand- ridge, and M Bristow exchange rem iniscences di 8 \ h It is ver led that the major, nt's fat and man named Sassoon were rivals ? hand of Mrs. Dan i in her Sassoon and Valla a duel on i account in which ITIer was Valiant finds Dar society favorite, the Vallant cor- founded and source of his court, 8 neg- vis Dand aired beauty, and de to like Virginia im Aor Overgr decides + first time nia on account tor Sout his ¢ become faints when iret tin a fort tourn ather's CHAPTER XXXIV. ~-Cantinued. Shirley's her face ting ness ca ling and her limbs th th Me indeed like a ghe had surmise? in panic and the me on unless-—and was wild prayer been mistaken Thoughts came haste: the cape jessamines no ls Valiant than But her mot fainting at of the zon eager interest in thronging of May these might | Sassoon the # she fourteenth 88 10 to ght had her's the ved in Shirley's ts of } from the bulldog rnamen seemed now to stan yut in a fight, throbbing an goate it be? Had she been stumbling a blind trail dovetailing of heart was beating should be mist n her hand across her eyes their clearness displa accoun im the rose and ball- new episode of to the tou ake as though compel and again. It was lay in Valiant's face that and a it w Beauty the locket, but one thing: whom her mother The lamplight eeemed spread to an Shirley thought sudden sweet wildness, not moved or uttered a fillumination was all about a splendid cloud happened. The mir hysterically prayed had been wrought! When she blew out the light, shining still remained. That glowing knowledge, like a vitalizing and phys fecal presence, passed with her through the hall to her room. the elfish light of her one candle, poignancy of her joy her past pain. wonder how that tragedy had Beauty Valiant's life to exile and her mother’s to unfulfillmment, and in time ghe was to know these things, too that could mean as he, not Sassoon, loved! unbearable radiance she cried but sound she her, acle for the was as sharp as ted out all else fancy no longer lover might agaln sweep across her memory undenied. She felt his arms, his kisses, heard his whispers against She need starve her Madonna lilies. She drew the curtain and opened the window noiselessly to the light. Only a few hours ago she had been singing to her harp in what wretched- ness! She laughed softly to herself The quiet night was full of his voice: “1 love you! 1 want nothing but you!” How her pitiful error had tortured and wrung them both! But tomorrow he, too, would know that all was well A clear sound chimed across the distance-—the bell of the court-house clock, striking midnight. One! Two! . . . How often lately it had run discordantly across her mood; now it seemed a clamant wafcher, tolling joy. Three! . Four! ea wi PFivel . . . Perhaps he was sleepless, listening, too. Was he In the old library, thinking of her? Sixt . . . Beven! . . . Bight! es « Nine! . . . If she could only send her message to him on the Bells! Ten! , . . It swelled more loudly now, more deliberate. Eleven! . . . Another day was almost gone. Twelve! . . . “Joy cometh in the morning”--ran the whisper across her thought. It was morning now, Thirteen! She caught a sharp breath. Her ear had not deceived her—the vibra tion still palpitated on the alr lke a i i of sound. It had struck A little eery touch crept along nerves and a cool dampness broke her gkin, for she seemed to hear, through the wondering sl voice of Mad Anthony, vered to her ear on the negro cabin, throwing its long curved across the group of laughing teen! the qua door-step of lence, shadow “Ah ter him. clock a-strikin’ sees gwine de co'ot-house night—en yo' gwine. wait, don’ wait, I'l mistis, er trouble-cloud gwine kyah him When de clock when de clock strike yo' le strike thuhteen She curtain had dropped the flowered ind drew back A weird fancy to press on her brain, Anthony foretold truly what ? What if there meaning in this, To nidnight, by a lonely a girl? Incredible! opened to a vague was swiftly me innate Mad gone ne ery him, ountry road Yet her mind had growing fear that ing to a thriving anxiety. That cherished while heritage of from centuries of th a mystical had p Yet all while actual common se: had before were ptic too? at she, yunt- superstition, secretly the which is the Southron-born bred derided, ontact wi race, n its gri the 186 Was cr in had come down her-—and appeter blood, m long generations, i The curtain wind that and somewhere mt upon Crying known wees that he PF were su Mag her COM De . Ty x Heel egan fo w ALLE a vhispered in the silk * ave in ! helow e conld hear lover or the “trouble-cloud” of mingled on her her wardrob« dra over her so it to the feet, [It falling from she thrust the Every breath in expression ive grew face ran on with tiptoe to frantic haste it a te ged o cloak that use-gown, © paaked its her once she pau i yrehensive glance her and shivered She she did, nor did the ou adventure wer scarcely she ask at might be toot absurd ne of She nel iW nor She was swept into hadowy yor feet rled away outlandish limbo of fear and crying dread Iinsnsin gr » ipping off he r and nolselessly herself agalr sr shoes, went ywn the stair and, $ : ww t over ne ¢© ACTORS about her, whin ith aw his ad and patted the snuffling inquiring instant before, with on + his mane, she led him the hedge but the work of a moment to on a sidesaddie and buckl Then, mounting, she turned him into the lane He was thoroughbréd, exciteprent seemed to fteelf tn Bim. He blew the breath through his delicate flaring nostrils and flung up his head at her restrain nd on the bridle. Once the Red Road, she let him have his will The long vacant highway reeled out ehind her to the and lonely tattoo She scarcely con scious of consecutive thought—all was a vague jumble of chaotic impressions threaded by that necessity that called her like an insistent Copse and hedge flew by, distemper on the shifting gloom; swarthy farmhouse roofs huddled like ghe silenced him = lifted hia he word. Selim i hi muzzle an hand kdl through to the stable It was throw & the and her tense communicate on fierce noof was voice, in pastures glinted back the pale stars. The faint mist, tangled in the branches of the trees, made them look like ghosts gathered to see her pass. Was this real or was she dreaming? Was she, Shirley Dandridge, really galloping down an hare-brained maunderings of a half. mad old negro? hung open, her pace, the long drive. front was blank and silent and its huge porch columns looked like lonely gray monoliths in the wan light. Not a twinkle showed at chink or eranny; the ponderous shutters were closed, There was a sense of desertion. emptiness about the place that brought her heart into her throat with a sickly horrible feeling of certainty. She jumped down from the blowing horse and hyrried around the house. The door of the kitchens was opea from it across the grass. She ran swiftly and looked In. A huddled fig ure sat there, rocking to and fro in the lamplight, “Aunt Daph,” she called, the matter?” The turbaned head turned sharply toward her. “Dat yo', Miss Shirley?” the old woman sald huskily. “Is yo’ come ter see Mars’ John ‘fo’ he gwine away? Yo' too late, honey, too late! He done gone ter de decpo fo’ ter ketch de th'oo trald. En, oh, honey, Ah knows in mah ala ha at Ast Mare’ “what 1s nevah Dam'ry co'ot no mo gwine come Hn CHAPTER XXXV, The Song of the Nightingale, Along the dark turnpike John Val- fant rode with his chin sunk on his He was wretchedly glad of darkness, for it covered a thou: familiar sights he had grown to Yet through the dark came sounds that clutching hands—the bay hound from some far-off kennel, whirring note of frogs, the high whinny of a horse across pasture- bars—and his nostrils widened wild braided fragrance of the over which the mist was spinning fairy carded wool, The preparations for his going had been quickly made. He was leaving behind him all but a single portman- teau. U Jefferson had this—with Chum--to the sta The old man had now gone sor the blockhouse, a up the track, to bespeak the of the express. He would go the horse his master the love, of a the to the its ncle taken tion rowfully afoot to little depot beside a dismal bank gouged by rains were dark k platform ntern flanked a stretch lonely of vel weather. was Hluminated that ed door, its sickly through bhilac k windows and 7 showing streaking side, In ti RE. lidog lan with ons waddled me WHE A ' he was leavin ory court, lea that it was not a Far away, Mountain, the roundin Powhattan long-drawn coming train Singing iis he heard hoot of aky echoes mixed galloping Among them ound of a horse, hor d His o fant wn fidgeted, vighed flung up wide nos. Who was inelled highway such breakneck shrilly was nearer now: he could rumbling and the click and But though he 3 stirrup, he did not ind held him motion feeling world beside i not ex % eeping impersonal hum, risin sp ring « lifted a f dismount the whirlw ht and speed © a sudde the © Beating f he, sitting his hie that ur F ay of speed ree in the known rider whose 3 outstripped the ri ing ? road skirted the the station, $a ry A Phe . to whom neared and all at | amr Have His Will. white glare from the opened firebox flung itself blindingly across the dark, fHluminating like a flare of summer Valiant, staring, had an in With a ery that was lost in the shriek of escaping steam, he dragged his plunging horse around and the white blaze swept him also, as the rider pulled down at his side, “You!” he cried. He leaned and caught tha slim hands gripped on the bridle, shaking now. “You!” The dazzling brightness had gone by, and the alr was full of the groan. ing of the brakes as the long line of darkened sleepers shuddered to its enforced stop. “John!"—- He heard the sweet wild cry plerce through the jumble of noises, and something fn it set his blood running molten through his veins, [It held an agony of relief, of shame and of appeal. “John . . . John!" py And knowing suddenly, though not how or why, that all ers were swept away, his arms went out and around her, and io the sh, dow af the COLrTRAYY lonely little station, saddles, clung and swayed together with clasping hands and broken words, while the train, breathing heavily for second, shrieked itself into the night, and left only the fragrance from the misty fields, the crowding silence and the sprinkling stars The blowing back was They breeze had risen the mist away as they went along the road A faint light lifting, forerunner of the moon. rode side by and to the and was side, n low by faint into each other whinnyings of equine comrade. glamour they gazed #8 faces. The adorable tweedy roughness of his shoulder thrilled her cheek " . And you were going Yes, yes, 1 know It was my i ; : ; misunderstood. Forgive me!” ship, the AWAY. fault 1 He ki anything ssed her hand. to “As if there forgive! Do you woods, sweetheart, What a brute | so! And all the time | wanted to take you in my arms like a Mttle hurt child. . . the vas-—10 fight day it rained? She him Even had glven irted me toward “Oh, 1 though up, but To have rhit! the church. “How pale came to me horribly how and how } #lay much ake it for you nat was iock really think? Or aid “1 be The you greatest m should noe miracle hereafter, er yo aarest ve love entrance of the cherry lane, hedge, pasture When ned his b elemaly let down the orse to the her golden ch estnut. back to where she the ured, » cam ing on the edge moon, ing ing the ginian night stood the late just show hills, paint yf the Vir lucence as fallen hood shone like a nim of her wait. of lawn, slden.- vest ge above @ was rim of the deep soft blueness with a trans pure as prayer Above the yf her cloak her hair bus, and the lovel Ploy inesas face catch the ilness of As they her's made ndert breath for stood heavened in each wart beating against wie world throbbing ngal ® beyond the ar thrill came and nimaginable mulody. It t the set ita to magical the leaves to break 8 cascade of golden notes their hearts was the song immortal THE END. n like the volce of rogsgcented night usic of itself, the ellver rose and swelled exultant and die in But in to wordless n ts fadeless Kept Out of Politics, In Austria women are forbidden by law to take an active part in politics or to join any political association spring the chamber of deputies decided to cancel the prohibiting clause, and the politieal committee of the upper house has now indorsed this vote of the deputies, with the explana. tion that “the part taken by women in associations wit political ten dencles is well known, and, under the can scarcely be pre This bill has been sent back leading an agitation against the rise feel most acutely. They have been successful in cheapening coal in Vienna and milk in Brunn. The leaders of the movement have been elected to mu- nicipal committees, and for the first time a woman has been put on a com- mittee of a town council, viz, that of Housing His Tender Spot. As a certain young artist of New York sat upon his stool on day in the rear a native, evidently with ideas of his own touching art “Did you ever try photography ®™ asked the newcomer. “No young artist, who continued his work. ed the native. painter, brush. “And,” the native added, with a dash of malice, “a good deal more like the place.” —Lippincott's. with another dab of the He Knew. Charles 8. Mellen, at a dinner in Boston, sald of a bankrupt: “His bankruptcy was like that which the parent described. “Pa, what's a bankruptey? a little boy once asked. “And pa, who had been ‘bit’ that week, answered Mtterly: “‘Bankruptey, my son, is where you put your money ia your hip pocket and let your creditors take your wallet and coat,” THE NEWS TOLD IN PARAGRAPHS Latest Happenings Gleaned From All Over the State. LIVE NOTES AND COMMENTS. Two Boys Rescued From Water, Horse Kicks Man To Death-—S8ick Man Shoots Himself—Boy Hit By Ball Dies. ing the Durl storm at Shenandoah height of the recent elec the 80 heavily trical electric light wires became that Be old y child, charged njamin Tonofsky, nineteen YOAars with a wife and fire, wires In his su a4 merchant fearing electri ane attempte d to the hatchet Dominick chop ne with a death ked to twenty- of and was sho« Kuchansk ive Years ola ingles, an a reialive io ctators The Ge short diets Ance yrge Jacobs fa west lected by the the hed 2 the with he head in a fourteen- pitched bal hile at ba Reading bb died felt gnme old Herman Ba suddenly had apparently no ill of from the blow and attended a concert festival at a play. base Year Ty he boy and Bulgarian Orthodox Church at go without a pastor be this the synod of t until have The Steelton must cause of the war lectors serving congregation are sent by Bulgaria and word has come tha conditions improve the place will to remain vacant three Pen Argyl slate quarries there was a fatality and two serious accidents. Barnet Sobers, years old, was strock on the head by a stone and killed. Wilbert dentally cut off his right forefinger, and E Bonney nearly severed his hand fn machinery. In Falling on the pavement, Mrs. Jeass Sharpe, of Coatesville, has entered suit to recover $10,000 damages for juries sustained. county jail, disembowled Bloze is in » pital In York street paving operations have been suspended because of a strike of thirty laborers. The laborers claim they were promised $2 a day when they left New York city, bw only received $1.60. tended the Northeumberiand, Montour and Columbia counties’ farmers’ pie nic at South Danville 0. 1. Reichert, eighteen years old fell down a forty-foot elevator shaft at the Home Brewery Company plant Shenandoah, and was fatally injured, Thieves entered and robbed five houses at Macungie, taking valuable jewelry and some money. AT TOMNETS, bs FORYYRY BNET APLAW mLareETh 88 Bonen A LIT TR y. 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