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SYNOPSIS. . ,
John Valiant. a rich society favorite,
sudden'Jy vers that the \ aliant cor
poration, which Ms father founded and
which wai the principal source of t.lfc
wealth, haa failed. He -volunturily turns
over his priv.it.' fortuhe to tho r"C'lver
for th- corporation. His entire remaining
poefloesiortq C' ltaict of an old motor car, a
white bull Oik and thunory court, a "eg
lect'it e#t*t« in Virginia. On the w ;ty t rt
Datnury court h«- meet* Shirley 1 >aad
rldg*,. an aubu>*i-f,a.lr.-! beatnf, and de
cides that h# ta going to like Virginia tm" k
menst-ly. Shirlt'v's mother. Mra. Irnnd
rtd#e, and itajof Brlstow cxcbaua» rem -
y- tnlacencea during ahlclv It I* revealed
that tht major. Valiant's father, and a
wan namcl SaMoon were' rivals fur the
hand of Mr*, I »amlrlii*e In her youth,
eaasoorj and Valiant fought a duel on her
Jccouj'.t In wiilca the former waa killed.
Valiant flrd* ptanopr court overjrrown
With wh.lb alSd creep* ™ und the li'illd-
Ings In a very much neglected condition.
Wallant explores hi* nncOalrnl home, He
Ik •i.rpriK«>d l»y a fox hunting party which
fitvarit-s his estate. He recofitiiaea Shirley
At the head of the party, lie Rives sanc
tuary to the conterrd fox. OosslpH dts
the advent of the n« w owner and re
call the tragedy in whlc.t tjj" elder Val
Isrtt took tin**. Valiant decides to re
habilitate fiamory court and make tho
land produce a ilvinu for him.
CHAPTE R XIII— Continued.
They stood or the edge of a stony
ravine which widened Ht one eud to a
nballow marshy valley.. The rocks
Were covered with gray-green feath
ery creepers, en wound with.-curly yel
low tendrils of love vine. Across the
ravine, on » lower level, began a
grove of splrtiJld trees that inarched
up into the> long stretch of neglected
forest he hai! seen from the house.
"You love It?" he asUed, without
withdrawing tTs eyes.
"I've lovetf tt all my life. I love
Vtrything about Damory Court.
Iluined as it iA, it is still one of tho
most estates in all Virginia.
There's noCc'cg finer even In Italy.
Just behind us. where those hemlocks
stand, i. wb»re tho duel the children
spoke of wa> fought."
He turned his head. "Tell mo about
tt," he said
She glanced at him curiously. "Didn't
jou know? That was the reason the
place was abandoned. Valiant, who
lived here, and the owner of another
plantation, who was named Bassoon,
quarreled. They fought, the story Is,
under those big hemlock trees. Sas
sooifw«*s killed."
'• He looked out across tho distance;
he could not trust his face. "And —
Valiant?"
"He went away the same day and
never came back; he lived In New
York till he dler 4 . He was the father
of the court's present owner*"* You
r.ever heard ihe story V
* "So," he admitted. "I—till quite re
cently I never heard of Ifcunory
Court."
"That was the last duel ever fought
in Virginia. Dueling was a dreadful
custom. I'm glad it's gone. Aren't
you?"
"Yes," he said slowly, "it was a
~"thing that cut two ways. Perhaps Va
liant, if he could have had his choice
afterward, would rather have been ly
ing there that morning than Bas
soon"
"He must have suffered, too," she
agreed, "or he wouldn't have exiled
himself as he did. I used Id wonder
if It was a love-quarrel--whether.they
could have been iu love with the same
woman"
"But why Should he go away?'"
"1 can't imagine, unless she had
really loved the other man. if so, she
couldn't have borno seeing Valiant
afterward." She paused with a little
laugh., "But then," she said, "it may
have been nothing so ropantlc. Va
liant's grandfather, why was known as
I>evil John, is said to have called a
man out because he rode past him
on the wrong side. Our ancestors in
Virginia, I'm afraid, didn't stand on
ceremony when they felt uppish."
He did not smile. Ho was looking
out once more over the, luminous
stretch of fields, his side-face towards
her Curious and painful questions
were running through his brain. With
an effort, he thrust those back and re
called his attention to what she was
a saying.
"You wonder, I suppose, that we
feel as we do toward thesei*! estates,
and set store by them, and —yes, i.nd
brag of them Insufferably as we do.
But it's in our blood. You Northern
ers think we're desperately con
ceited," she smiled, "but it's true.
We're still as proud of our land, and
its old, old places, and love them as
well as our ancestors ever did. Do
you wonder we resent their passing
tq people who don't care .for them Id
the Southern way?" /
"But suppose the newcomers do
care for them?"
Her lips curled. "A young million
aire who has lived all his life In New
York, to care for Damory Court! A
youth Idiotically rich, brought up In a
superheated atmosphere of noise and
money!"
He started uncontrollably. So that
was what she thought! He felt him
self flushing. He had wondered what
would be his impression of the neigh
borhood and its people; their possible
opinion of himself had never occurred
tn
-You think there's no chance of his
choosing to stay here because he
actually likes It?"
"Not the Slightest," she said Indif
ferently. - .
"You are so certain of this without
ever having semi him?" /
She (lanced at him covertly, an-.
noyedly sensible of the -impropriety
of the discussion, since the man dis
cussed was certainly his patron, may
be his friend. Hut his Insistence had
roused a: certain balky wilfulness that
would have Its way. "It's true I've
never seen him," she said, "but I've
road about him a hundred times In the
Sunday supplements. He's a regular
feature of the high roller section. His
idea of a good time is a dog-banquet
at Sherry's Why, a girl told me once
that there was a cigarette named after
him —tlu- Vanity Valiant!"
"Isn'ff that beside the point? Be
cause he lias been an idler, must he
necessarily be a—vandal?*'
She laughed again. "He wouldn't
call It vandalism He'd think It de
cided Improvement to make Damory
Court as frantically different as possi
ble. ,1 suppose he'll erect a glass
cupola and a porte-cochere, all up to
dnte and varnishy, and put orchid hot
house vflheitc tlio wilderness garden
was, and a modern marble eupld In
stead of the summer house, and lay
out a kite-shaped track—"
Kverythlng that was impulsive and
explosive in John Valiant's nature
came out with a bang. "No!" he
cried, "whatever else he Is, he's not
such a preposterous nss as that!"
She faced him squarely now. Her
eyes were sparkling. "Since you know
him so Intimately and so hlgtoly ai>-
prove of him—"
"N'o, no," ho interrupted. "You mis
take me, 1 shouldn't try to justify
him." Ills flush bad risen to the roots
of his brown hair, but he did not
lower -his gaze. Now the red color
slowly ebbed, leaving him pale. "Ho
has been an idler —that's true enough
—and till a Week ago ho was idiotic
ally rich .' But bis idling is over now.
AC^Hthr-moment, 'except for- this one
property, ho is little better than a
beggar."
She had taken a hasty step or two
back from him, and her eyes were now
fixed on his with a dawning half fear
ful question In them.
"Till tho failure of the Valiant Cor
poration, he had never heard of I)a
--raory Court, much less been aware
that he owned it. It wasn't because
he loved It that he came here—no!
How could It be? Ho had never set
foot In Virginia In his mortal life."
She put Up her hands to her throat
with a start. "Came?" she echoed,
"Came!"
"But If you think that even he could
be so crassly stupid, so monumentally
blind to all that is really fine and
beautiful —■"
"Oh!" she cried with flashing com
prehension. "Oh, how could you!
You—"
He nodded curtly. "Yes," he said.
"I am that haphazard harlequin, John
Valiant, binidSlf."
CHAPTER XIV.
On the Edge of the World.
There was a pause not to be reck
oned by minutes but suffocatingly
long She had grown as pale as he.
"That was ungenerous of you," she
said then with Icy slowness. "Though
no doubt you-—found it entertaining,
it must have still further amused you
to be taken for an architect?"
"1 am flattered," he replied, with a
trace of bitterness, "to have suggested
The Next Moment, With Clenched
Teeth, He Was Viciously Stamping
His Heel Again and Again.
even for a moment, so worthy a call
ing."
At his answer she put out her hand"
with sudden gesture, as if bluntly
thrusting tho majter from her con
cern, and turning went back along the
tree-shadowed path. £ ■ \j
Mo followed glumly, gnawing his
lip, wanting to say he knew not what,
but wretchedly tongue-tied, noting
that the great white moth was still
waving Its creamy wings on the dead
stump and wondering If she would
take the cape jessamines. He felt an
embarrassed relief when, passing the
roots where they lay; she stooped to
raise them.
Then all- at once the blood seemed
to shriak- fspra his heart. With a
hoarse cry he leaped toward her,
seized her wrist and roughly t ,dragged
her hack, feeling as he did so, a sharp
fiery sflng on his Instep. The next
moment, with clenched teeth, he was
viciously stamping his heel again and
again, driving into tho soft earth a
■ twisting root-like something that
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THE ENTERPRISE, WILLIAMSTON, NORTH CAROLINA.
slapped the brown wintered leaves In
to a hissing turmoil. '»
He had flung her from him with
such violence that she had fallen slde
wise. Now she raised herself, kneel
ing In the fenthery. llghT, Irotb-haads
clasped close to her breast, trembling
excessively with loathing and foellng
the dun earth-floor billow like a can
vas sea In a theater. Little puffs of
dust from the protesting ground were
wreathing about her set face, and she
pressed one hand against her shoulder
to repress her shivers.
"Tho horrible horrible thing!"
she said whisperlngly. "It would have
bitten ine!"
He cattle toward he#, panting, and
grasping her hand, lifted her to her
feet. He staggered slightly as he did
80, and she saw bis lips twist to
gether oddly. "Ah." she gasiiod, "It
bit you! It bit you!"
"No," he said, "I think not."
"l.ook! There on your ankle—thet
spot!"
"I dlil fe-il something, just that first
moment." He laughed uncertainly.
"It's que»r. My foot's gone fast
asleep."
Evi>ry remnant of color left hor
| fate. SNe had known a tiegro chiU
j who lia>' died of a vvnter moccftsln's
j bite soni) years before —the child of a
house-servant. It had boon wading In
j the crt-fk In the gorge. Tho doctor
j had sa'M then that IT one of tho other
child r«n. • • •
She grasped hH arm. "Sit down,"
she commanded, "here, on this log,
| and fvc."
i llr: pale fright caught him. He
I obeyed, dragged off tho low shoe and
bared the tingling spot. The firm
whi'.e flesh wa#«pufllng up around two
tiny blue-rimmed punctures. He
reached into his iiocket, then remem
bered that he had no knife. As tho
next best thing he knotted his hand
kerchief quickly above tho ankle,
thrust a stick through the loop and
twisted It till tho ligature cut deeply,
| while she knelt beside him, hor lips
i moving soundlessly, saying, over and
» over to herself words like those: "I
must not be frightened. Ho doesn't
realize tho danger, but I do! I must
j bq; quite collected. It 1B a mile to the
| doctor's, I mlgb*, run to tho house
I and send Unc' Jefferson, but It would
| lake too long. Besides, the doctor
j might not be there. There Is no one
to do anything but mo."
She crouched beside him, putting
her bands by his on the stick and j
I wrenching ft over with all hor.
strength. "Tighter, tighter," she said
"It must be tighter." Hut, to her dls |
I may, at the last turn the Improvised I
I cord snapped, and tho released stick j
| flew a dozen feet away.
| Her heart Reaped chokingly, then
| dropped into hammer-like thudding ,
Ho loaned back on one arm, trying |
to laugh, but she noted that his breath
came shortly as If ho had been run
nlng. "Absurd!" ho said, frowning ;
"How such- a fool thing—can hurt!" ;
Suddenly she throw herself on the
ground and grasped the foot with both
hands. He could s».e hor face twitch
with shuddering, and hor eyes dilating
with some determined purpose.
"What are you going to do?"
"This," she said, and he felt her!
! shrinking lips, warm and tremulous,
' pressed hard against his Instep.
He drew away sharply, with savage
denial "No—no! Not that! You
shan't! My lordr~you shan't!" lie
dragged hlB numbing foot from her !
! desperate grasp, lifting himself, push
I ing her from hiin; but she fought with j
him, clinging, panting broken sen- i
tencefl:
"You must! It's tho only way. It
was—a moccasin, aiwl It's deadly j
Every minute counts!"
"1 won't. No, stop! How do you |
know? It's not going to -here, llpten!
Take your hands away. Listen!~Lls j
ten!-- I can go to th« houao aud aer .
Uncle Jefferson for tho doctor and le
—No! stop, I Buy! Oh—l'm sorry if I
hurt you. How strong you are!"
"Lot me!"
"No! Your lips are riot for that —
good God, that damnable thing! You |
yourself might be—"
"Let me! Oh, how* cruel you are' J
It was my fault. But for mo It wo"uli L
never have—"
"No! I would rather—"
"Let me! Oh, If you died!"
With all tho force of her atrorc |
young bb'Jy sho wrenched away his t
protestsnt -han4e. A thtrst and a fiei- *
ish feeling were upon him, a curious j
irresponsible giddiness, and her hair
which that struggle had brought In I
tumbled masses about hor shoulderi, !
seemed to have little flames running j
all over it. His foot had entirely-lost j-
Its feeling. There was a strange weak
ness in his limbs.
Moments of half-consciousness,- or 1
consciousness jumbled with strange [
imaginings, followed. At times he felt
upon tho wounded foot, I
was J sensible of the suction of the j
young mouth striving desperately to J ;
draw the poison from the wound, j
From-time to tlnie-her wag- 1
of a white desperate face haloed vitli j
hair that was a mist ot woven spar 1
kles. At times he thought himself i 1
a recumbent Btone statue In a wood, ! 1
and her a great tall golden-headed''j J
flower lying broken at Ills feet. Again j 1
he was a granite boulder arm she a ! :
vine with yellow leaves winding and |
clinging nbout him. Then a blank —
a Benso of movement and of troublous
disturbance, of Insistent voices that
called to him and Inquisitive hands
that plucked at him, nntl then voices
growing distant again, and hands fall
ing away, and at last-—silence.
*•••••• •
Inky clouds were gathering over
the sunlight when Shirley came from
Damory Court, along the narrow wood
path under the hemlocks, and tho way
was striped with blue-black shadows
and filled with sighing no I'tea. She
'walked warily, halting often at some
leafy rustle to cntch a quick breath
of dread. v As she approached tho \reo
roots where the cape jessamines lay.
she had to force her feet forward by
shot r effort of will. At a little dls
tatice from them she broke , s.lck and
with It managed to drag the lunch to
hor, turning her eyes with a shiver
from the trampled spot near by. Shu
picked tip the flowers, and treading
with cautiodf retraced her tope to the
wider path.
She stepped Into the lied Road at
length in tho teeth of a thunder storm,
which had arisen almost without warn-
Ing to break with the passionate In
tens ity of electric storms in the South.
There was III) shelter, but even had
there been, she would not have sought'
It. Tho turbulence of nature around
her matched, In a way, her over
strained feeling, and she welcomed
the tierce bulge of the wind in the |
up blow ing whorls of her hair and the
drenching wetness of the rain She
tried to tlx her mind on near things
the bending grasses, tho scurrying red
runnels and flapping shrubbery, but
hor thoughts wilfully escaped the
tether, turning again. and again to the
events of the last two hours. She pie
- 4ui»'«l l : we-' JelTurttou'* e-vcK WHlhk HP
In ridiculous alarm, his -winnowing
, arm lashing his Indignant mule In his
flight for tho doctor. S
At tile mental picture she choked
with hysterical laughter, then cringed
suddenly against the sopping bark. J
She again the doctor's gaze lift
from his'llrst examination of the tiny
punctures to send a swift penetrant
glance at her, before he bent his great
body to tarry tho unconscious man to
tho house. Again a fit of shuddering
swept over her. Then, all at once,
tears caine, strangling sobs that bent
and swayed ber. It was the discharge
of tlje Ley den jar, the K ..sing of the
tense bbw siting and it brought ro
| lfef. After a titno she grew quieter,
jHe would gel. well! The thought
1 that perhaps she had Raved his life
j gave her a thrill that ran over her
j whole body. Attd until yesterday she
i had never seen him'! She kneeled In
! the blurred half-light, pushing hor wet
hair back from her forehead and smit
ing up In the rain that still fell fast.
In a few moments she rose and wont on.
! At the gate of the Kosewood bine
stood u mail box on a cedar post and
she paused to fish out a draggled Rich
mond newspaper. As sho thrust it un
; dor her arm her eye caught a-word of
a head-line. With a flush she tore It
from Its soggy wrapper, the wetted
; liber parting in her eager Augers, and
resting her foot on the lower rail of
i the spread it opt n on her knee.
She stood stock-still until she had
'read the whole. It was Ihe story of j
i John Valiant's sacrifice of his private ;
fortune ro save the ruin of the In
volved corporation.
Its effect upon her was a shock. She
i felt her throat swell as she read; then
sho was chilled by the memory of
; what she had 1 said to him: "What
i has he ever done except piny polo and
furnish spicy paragraphs for the so
i clety columns?"
"What a beast I was!" she said, ad- •
dressing the wet hedge, "Hit had jul-t
; done that splendid tfiTrT;;7 It was be j
... X j; N ,,
DIDN'T FIND IT INTERESTING
Settler Had No Hesitation in Declar- (
ing Encyclopedia Had Its Dry
Bpots. ' I
Dudley Field Malone, the new col- J
lector of the port of-New -York,-twtkl to i
a reporter:
"I'm too new to my job to talk about i
It yet. If I talked about it I might,
like the mountaineer, give away my
Ignorance.
"A man was hunting In I'lke coanty,
and up around Porters lake he visited .
a Bettler's house.
"He noticed a volume of a good
encyclopedia on a shelf above the gun,
and said:
'lt must be a handy thing away off
here to have an encyclopedia.'
"'Yep,' said the mountaineer. 'Yep,
hamly - T " wl y pot fb° lixtl hqoit.'
" 'Why haven't you got the others?'
gf I ain't finished this one yet, so 1J
ain't ready for another. 1 bought this
one off'n an »g«nt about eight years
ago. He come round six mouths aft
erwards and says, says he: "Here's
yer second volume, mister."
"'"What?" says I. "Why, I ain't Un
causa of that that he wan little hotter j
than a .beggar, and 1 Bald those hor- |
riblo things!" Again she bent hop I
eyes, rereading the sentences: "Took I
his detractors by surprise • • •
hail just sustained a grilling at Aho
hands of the state's examiner which
might well have drdod at their fount 1
the springs of sympathy"
She crushed up th* paper In her !
hand and rested her forehead on the
wet rail. Idiotically rich—a vandal —j
a useless, purseproud flaneur. She j
had called him *ll Ci,-it! Bhe could
si 111 see the paleness of hin look as
she had said It.
Shirley, overexcited as she still was,'
felt the SOI>B returning. These, how- j
ever, did not last long and In a mo» !
ment. she found bet self smiling again. I
Though Rho had I urt htm, she bftd {
saved him. too! When she whispered j
tlilH over to herself It still thrilled and j
start leip hor. Sho folded tho paper j
and hastened on wider the cherry- j
trees.
Enimnllne, tho neuro m,aid was wait- t
: lug anxiously on the porch. She was ;
(thin to BparencHs, with a face as i
| brown as a tobacco leaf, restless blaek j
eyes and wool'neatly pinned and Bet
off by an amber comb.
"Honey," called Htnmnllne, "l'so j
been fearln" fo' ,vo' w Id all that light
iilif r'arln' eroun'. Yo' got th' jess'-' j
mine? (Jive 'Olll to Ktn'llne. She'll tlx j
em all ivtro, jes' how Mis' Judith like." j
"All right, 'Hiniunllno,'' replied Shir- j
ley. "And I'll no and dress. lias 1
mother'missed 1119?"
"N'o'm. She ain' lef' huh room this j
whole blessed day. Now yo' barth'a '
all ready all 'eopVi th' hot watuh, j
en I sen' Kuuston with that tli* fus'
thing. Vo' hurry «vu peel them wet !
_ close off yo'Hn'f, or \ luu u out! o' .
them digested chili*."
llor young mistress flown and tho j
hot water despatched, the negro wom
an spread a cloth on Hie floor and J
began to cut and droits the long stalks !
of the. flowers. .This done, she .fetched-!
bowls and vases, anil set the jiearly-.
white clumps horn It id there—on tho |
dining room sldohonJi I. the hall man- |
tel and the desk of Hie living-room—
till the dedicate fragrance lilted tho I
house, quite vanquishing tho rose- 1
scent from the arbors.
As the trim colored woman moved
lightly about 111 t ie growing dusk,
with fho low click of KI'IHS and muf
fled clash of silver, the light tat-tat of j
n cane sounded, and she ran to tho
hall, where Mrs. Hand ridge was de
scending tho stairway, one slim white 1
hand holding the l>anls(er, i-HfMer tho!
edge of a white, sljk shawl which
drooped # lts heavy fringes to her daintv
llv shod feet. On the lower step sho
halted, hooking smilingly about at the
bloHSOiuin; bowls.
"Don' they §mell up th' wholo
house?' 1 said Krnmttlltio. "I know'd
v'o be ideas', Mis' Judith. Now put j
yo' hau' on mah shoulilah cn I'll take j
yo' to yo' IIIK cha'h."
They crossed the hall, tho dusky )
form bending to the fragile pressure of j
the fingers. "Now yo~c)}a'h,_j_
RHUS ton lie made up a little fliih Jes' I
to take tli' damp out, en th' big lamp's J
lit, en Miss Shirley II be down right j
rpdclc."
A moment later, in fact, Shirley de- [
I scended the stair, in a film % gown of
; India muslin, with a .1 arrow belting of ;
! gold, against whose (lowing sleeves !
! her baro arms showed with a flushed j
plnkufiss. the hue -of the pale coraL j
beads about her nook. Tho damp 1
n wspaper was In her hand.
At her step her mother turned hor !
head: she was listening Intently to
videos that ranie ft om tho garden— a
| child's 'shrill trelite opposing ltan |
; Hton's stentorian r,t uinbjo.
(TU IIK I ONTIN FELL.)
• lsed the volume yet. You Jest d',|
I out'"
" 'He dug, too. Nino year ago M |
was. I ain't more'n half through her
I yet. The'wife, she's about quarter
! through. It took a lot o' brains to I
I write this book, but it's my opinion; t
! all the Bame, and ! lon't mind tellln!
ye, that 1 think Khe'a got hpr dry J
streaks, like most everything else.'" |
Chinese Soldiers Are Good f-'ightera. |
- -Till within the last two years or bi l
the general Impression was that the }
Chinese soldier was intended to run
away.' The revolution of 1911 dis
sipated some of thfs absurdity. The
events of the present year have dis
persed the" remainder. It is now
recognized that there Is no finer mate
rial thanlhat Which could be selected
from among the sturdier of China's
sons. Nothing is waited hut training,
arms' .uL -WXadaiQfl~-gfc«yL leading.and a, _
good eautfe. \yith these, China could
well hold Its own. The t? pif vementt
that have been made during receif.
years in such things can be appro
ciated only by thos? who know what
the old troops, froit. ther ISannermea
downward, were lilie.--National R# *
view, China - ■
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Manston, Wis. "At the Change of
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| find loins until I could not stand. I also
hud night-sweats BO that tho sheets
| would be wet I tried other medicina
j but got no relief. After taking one bot
j tie of Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable
| Compound I began to improve and I
| continued its use for six months. Tha
j pains I'efc me, the night-sweats and hot
| flashes grew less, and in one year I was
| a different woman. I know I have to
! thank you for rny continued good health
I ever since." Mrs. M. J. BROWNELL,
1 Manston, Wis.
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Caravaggio Picture Found.
An Important find has been made In
| tho ait. collections of Marehese della
I Htufa at France. It Is a painting by
I Caravaggio, which had been lost sight
| of for many years. Tho painting was
T known to connoisseurs through a print
I In the (iallnrla (hull Uflzzl.
Slg di Plotro, the secretary of this
j gallery, was determined to find tha
j picture. It was known that In the
j year 1700 it was In possession of tha
j rormtanl family, which is now ex
j tlnct..
Hig dl l'letro, while examining Mar
j chose della Stufa's Collection naw the
j painting and Immediately identified it.
I The I'liz/.i print la an exact reproduo
i tion of tho picture, which is a typical
Caravaggio. it depicts six youths, one
I of whom in playing a violin, one a lute
| and one a Hate, wjiilo two are singing
and one Is listening.—.New York Bun.
Ancient Stage to Be Used.
A more than usually Interesting dra
j matlc revival Is announced for April"
| IH. when tho "Agamemnon" of Aos
| ehylus will ho performed ,in the an
| cient Greek theater of Syracuse.
| Nearly 21 centuries have passed
since I Hero I embellished his city with
j the theater which tradition attributes
| to tho.ar hitect Democopor Myrilla.
Aeschylus must havo taken refuge
| in the court of I Hero very soon after
i its completion, and it may be conjeo
| lured that the great trilogy, which bo
| gan with the "Agamemnon," was
j oft-en performed on it»; stage; It is
[known that the "Persae" was per-
I formed there and a work written for
j lilero by Aeschylus, entitled the "tot
neae," of which no trace remains.—
I New York 'Sun.
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