Erslane Dale -- Pioneer
By John Fox, Jr.
Copyright bj Ch*r!ca Scribner'i Soni
DANE GREY.
SYNOPSIS.-To th» Kentucky
wil.i. iiM- s outpost commanded by
J*rn:ni* in the time lnune
un.tcly p.- ■ eding the Revolution.
i-unii'M a white hoy tleolng from n
tri»»e of SI awnees hy whom he had
n aj>lnr«l ami ;t J OP te*i a.s a Hon
of tin- chl'f Kahloo, lie Is given
shelter and al.racist the favorable
attention of Have Yandell, a lender
among the settlers The boy warns
his new friends of the coming of a
Fhawnee war p:iriy. The tort la
attacked, and only saved by the
timely aipeannce of a party of
Virginian*. The leader of theHe Is
finally wounded, hut in Ills dying
ni'-ni'-nts rceoglilZes the fugitive
youth an his son. At Red Oaks,
plantation on the James river, Vir
ginia, Colonel Hale's home, the boy
a; pears with a message for the
• oion- 1. who after reading it intro
duces the bearer to his daughter
Harbara as her cousin. Krskine
I»ale. Krskine meets two other
cousins. Marry Dale and Hugh Wil
loughby. Dueling rapiers on a wall
at I ted Oaks attract Frskitie's at
tention lie takes Ilia first fencing
lesson from Hugh.
CHAPTER V—Continued.
—s—
tin hour or more tlu'.v linil
driven mill there was no end to the
fields of tobacco mill grain.
"Are we slill on your hind?"
Barbara laughed. "Yes; we can't
drive ii roil ixl the plantation and get
back for dinner. I think we'd better
turn Trrtw."
I 'la ii la tlon," said Ihp lad. "What's
Hint '!"
I'.arbiira waved her whip.
"Why, all this —the hind the farm."
"i .h ! '
"li s called Ited Oaks—from those
big Iris's haek of the house."
"t'li I know oaks well—all of 'em."
She wheeled the ponies and with
fresh zest they scampered for home.
I'\ervliod.v had gathered for the noon
day dinner when they swung around
liie great trees and up to the back
porch, .lust as they were starting in
tl.e Kentucky hoy gave a cry and
darted down the pa|h. A towering j
figure In eoiiiiskln cap and hunter's
gnrli was halted at the sun-dial and I
loot ing tow and lliein.
"Now, I wonder who that Is." said ;
('o|on>d Dale. "Jupiter, hut that hoy
ecu run !"
They saw the tall stranger stare
woiideriligiy at the hoy and throw ;
hack his head and laugh. Then the j
two came on together. The hoy was
still Hushed hut the hunter's face was
j.l in e.
"This Is Dave," said the boy simply.
"line Yandell." ailded the stranger,
smiling and taking oil his cap. "I've
l.eeti al Williamsburg to register some |
lands and I thought I'd come and see j
how this young miln Is getting along." |
Colonel Dale went quickly to meet
lam with outstretched blind.
"I'm mighty glad amu did," he said
heartily. "Krskine has already told
us about you. You ure Just in time
for dinner."
"Tbat'ii mighty kind," said Dffve.
And the ladies, after he was present
ed, still looked at him with much cu
riosity anil great Interest. Truly,
strange visitors were coming to lied j
Oaks these days. 'I
That nig|it the subject of Hugh and
llarry going back home with the two!
Kentucklans was broached to Colonel |
Dale, and to the wondering delight
of the two boys both fathers seemed
to consider It favorably. Mr. Brock
ton was going to Knghind for a visit,
the summer was coming on, and both
fathers thought It would be a great
benefit to their sons. Kven Mrs. Dale,
on whom the htlnter bad made a most
irvecable Impression, smiled and said
si e would already be willing to trust
her son with their new guest any
w here.
"I s! all take good care of him,
n r fain," said I >ave with a bow.
Colonel Hale, too, was greatly taken
with the stranger, and he asked many
questions of the new land beyond the
mountains. There was dancing again
that night, and the hunter, lowering
a head above lliein all, looked on with
smiling interest, lie even took pari
in a square dance with Miss Jane Wil
loughlt.v, handling his great bulk with
astonishing grace and lightness of
foot. Then the elder gentlemen went
Into the drawing-room to their port
nlul pipes, and the boy Krskine slipped
after I hem and listened enthralled to
the talk of the coming war.
Colonel Dale had been in Hanover i.
ten years before, w hen one Patrick j
Henry voiced the first Intimation of '
Independence in Virginia; Henry, a }
cotin try storekeeper bankrupt; j
farmer— bankrupt; storekeeper again,
and bankrupt again; an Idler, hunter,
Usher, and story-teller—even a "bar
keeper." as Mr. Jefferson once dubbed
him. because Henry bad once helped
his father in law to keep tavern. That 1
far back Colonel Dale bad heard j
Henry denounce the clergy, stigmatize
the king as a tyrant who had forfeit
ell all claim to obedience, and had
seen the orator cuuglit up on the
shoulders of the crowd and amidst
shouts of applause borne around the
eourt-hotme green. He had seen the
s;une Henry ride into ttliiimpnd two
years Inter on a lean horse : with pa
pers in his saddle-pockets. Ids ex
pression grim, Ills tall figure stoop
ing, a'peculiar twinkle in bis small
blue eyes. his hrow-n wig without pow
der. his coat peach-blossom In color,
his knee-breeches of leather, and his
mocking of yaro. The speaker of
the Burgesses waVon a dais under
I a red canopy supported by glided rods,
and the clerk sat beneath with a
' mace on the table before him. but
Henry cried for liberty or death, and
j the shouts of treason failed then and
j there to save Virginia for the ki*V.
The lad's brain whirled. What did
| all this mean? Who was this king and
j what had he done? He had known
j but the one from whom he had run
! awav.: When he got Dave alone he
j would learn and learn and learn —
| everything. And then the yoiftig
| people came quietly In and sat down
quietly, and Colonel Dale, divining
what they wanted, got Dave started
on stories of the wild wilderness that
was bis home —the first chapter In the
[ Iliad of Kentucky—the land of dark
I forests and cane thickets that sepa
; rated Catawbas. Creek's and Cliero
! kces on the south from Delawares.
j Wyandottes and Shuwnees on the
| north, who fought one another, anft
j all of whom the whites must tight.
| How the first fort was built, and the
| first women stood on the banks of the
! Kentucky river. He told of the perils
| nnd hardships of the first journeys
| thither—fights with wild beasts and
wild men, chases, hand-to-hand com-'
bats, escapes and massacres and
only the breathing of his listeners
could be heard, save the sound of his
own voice. And he enme finally to
the story of the attack on the fort,
the raising of a small band above the
cane, palm outward, .and the swift
dash of a slender brown body into the
fort, nnd then, seeing the boy's face
turn scarlet, be did not tell how that
same lad bad slipped back Into the
woods even while the was going I
on, and slipped back with the bloody
scalp of his enemy, but ended with j
the timely coining of the Viufrliihins.
led by the lad's father, who got his
| death-wound at the very gate. The
| tense breathing of his listeners cul
| minuted now In one general deep
breath.
Colonel I>ale rose nnd turned i>
j (Jeneral WiHollglib.V.
"And that's where he wants to take
! our boys."
"(111, It's much si for now," said the
i hunter. "We have had no trouble for
some time, and there's no danger In
side the fort."
"I can Imagine you keeping those
| boys lii, side the fort when there's so
I much going on outside. Slill —"
j Colonel Hale stopped and the two
I hoys took heart again.
Colonel Dale escorted the -boy and
j Have to their room. Mr. Yandell must
i go with them to the fair nt Williams-
Miidens Moved Daintily Along in Silk j
and Lace, High-Hseled Shoes and
Clocked Stockings.
burg next morning, and Mr. Yandell
would go gladly. They would spend
the night there and go to the gover
nor's ball. The next day there was a
county fair, and perhaps Mr. Henry
would speak again. Then Mr. Yundell
must come back with them to lied
Oaks and pay them a visit—no, the
colonel would accept no excuse wJiat
e\ er.
The boy plied Dave with questions
about the people in the wilderness and
passed to sleep. Dave lay awake a
long time thinking that war was sure
to cme. They were Americans now,
i. said Colonel Dale not Virginians,
i Just as nearly a century later tije
' same people were to say :
r "We are not Americans no.v—we
j are Virginians."
CHAPTER VI.
It was n merry cavalcade that
J swung around the great oaks that
j spring morning in 1774. Two coaches
with outriders itnd postilions led the
way with their precious freight— the
elder ladles In the first coach, and j
the second blossoming with flowerlike
faces and starred with dancing eyes.
Booted and spurred, the gentlemen
rode behind, and after them rolled
the bnggage wagons, m-awn hy mules
in Jingling harness. Harry on a
chestnut sorrel and the young Ken
tucklan on ii hitrh-stepping gray fol
lowed the second conch—'Hugh on
Firefly champed the length of the
column. Colonel Dale and Dave
bronght up the rear. The road was
of sand and there was little sound of
hoof or wheel —only the hum of
voices, occasional sallies when n
neighbor joined them, and laughter
from the second coach as happy and
care-free as the singing of birds from
trees by the roadside.
The capital had been moved from
Jamestown to the spot where Bacon
had taken the oath against Kngland—
then called Middie-Plantatioiif* and
Williamsburg. The cavalcade
wheeled into Gloucester stree*, and
Colonel Dale pointed out to Dave the
old 'capltol at one end and William
and Mary college at the other. Mr.
Henry bad thundered in the old cap
ltol, the Burgesses had their council
chamber there, and In the hall there
would be a ball that night. Near the
street "'as a great building which the
colonel pointed out as the governor's
palace, surrounded by pleasure
grounds of full three hundred acres
and planted thick with linden trees.
My I.ord Di'.ntnore lived there.
At the planters came with
their families to the capital, and the
street was as brilliant as a fancy
dress parade would be to us now. It
was filled with coaches and fours.
Maidens moved daintily along in silk
and lace, high-heeled shoes and
clocked stockings. J
The cavalcade baited before a build
ing with a leaden bust of Sir Walter
lialeigh over the main doorway, the
old lialeigh tavern, in the Apollo room
of which Mr. Jefferson had rapturous
ly danced with his Belinda, and which
was to become the Faneuil hall of
Virginia. Both coaches were quickly
surrounded by bowing gentlemen,
young gallants, and frolicsome ■ stu
dents. Dave, the young Kentuckian,
and Harry would be put up-at the
tavern, and, for his own reasons,
Hugh elected to stay with them. With
an au revolr of white hands from the
coaches, the rest went on to the house
of relatives and friends.
Inside the tavern Hugh was soon
surrounded by fellow students and
boon companions. He pressed Have
and the hoy to drink with them, )ut
Dave laughingly declined and took t'M
lad up to their room. Below they
could hear Hugh's merriment foing
on, arid when he came upstairs a
while later his face was flushed, he.
was in great spirits, and was full of
enthusiasm over a horse race and
cock-fight that he had arranged for
the afternoon. With him came a
youth of his own age with daredevil
eyes and a suave manner, one Dane
Grey, to whom Harry gave scant
greeting, due patronizing look from
the stranger toward the Kentucky
hoy and within the latter a fire of
antagonism was Instantly kindled.
With a word after the two went out,
Hurry snorted his explanation;
"Tory!" . ■.
In the early afternoon coach and
horsemen moved out to an "old field."
Hugh was missing frotn the Dale
party', (Jeneral Willoughhy
frowned when lie noted his son's ab-
'J'hen a crowd of boys gatliered to
run one hundred and • twelve yards
for a hat worth twelve shillings, and
Dave nudged bis young friend. A
moment later Hurry cried to Bar
bara :
"Look there!"
There was their young Indian lin
ing up 'with the runners, his face
calm, but an eager light in his eyes.
At the word lie started off almost
leisurely, until the whole crowd was
nearly ten yards ahead of him, and
then a yell of astonishment rose from
the crowd. The boy was skimming
the ground on wings. I'ast one after
another be flew, and laughing and
hardly out of breath he bounded over
the finish, with the first of the rest'
laboring with bursting lungs ten
yards behind. Hugh and Dane Grey
had appeared arm in arm and were
moving through the crowd with great
guyety and some boisterousness, aid'
when the boy appeared with his hat
Grey shouted:
''Good - for the little savage!"
Iwskine wheeled furiously but Dave
caught him by the arm and led him
back to Harry and Barbara, who
looked so pleased that the lad's ill
huiuor passed at once.
Hugh and his friend hail not ap
proached them, for Hugh bad seen
the frown on his father's face, but
Krskine saw Grey look long at Bar
bara, turn to question Hugh, and
again be began to burn within.
The wrestlers hud now pepped
forth to buttle for a pair of silver
buckles, and the boy in turn nudged
Dave, but unavailing!}'. The wres
tling was good and Dave watched it
with keen interest. One huge bull
necked fellow was easily the winner,
but when the silver buckles were in
Ids baud, he boastfully challenged
anybody In the crowd. Dave shoul
dered through the crowd and faced
the victor.
"I'll try you once," he said, and a
shout of approval rose.
.The Dale party crowded close and
my lord's coach appeared on the out
skirts and stopped.
"Backholts or catch-as-cnlch-can?"
asked the victor sneerlngiy.
"As yoil please." said Dave.
"He's ..hurt," said Dave, "and
he's gone home."
ITO UK CONTINUED)
Very Much to Be Desired.
We all jthuuid like u cook such as
an Ktiglish clergyman advertised for
In the London Times. In his advertise
ment he said among other things that
It was essential not only that bis cool
should have a sense of humor but also
that she snould exemplify the spirit
of Galatlans, verse 22. Now Galatians,
verse 22, reads thus: "But the fruit
of the spirit Is love, Joy, peace. lonj
sufferlng, gentleness, goodness, ialtlL
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1 FROCKS FOR EARLY FALL; T
SNUGLY CLAD IN WOOL I
XTE\V frocks for early fall are mak
ing a dignified and impressive
entrance. They are less simple, but
not less graceful, than their predeces
sors of summer aud very generally
have adopted the vogue for drapery
and the uneven hem line, together
with some entirely new features. And
again they place an emphatic accent
on sleeves which are endlessly ingen
ious and beautifully decorated. Hot,
with true feminine inconsistency,
there are sleeveless frocks among
them and otlfers, sponsored by great
names, that have plain sleeves shorter
TWO OF THE PRETTY NEW GOWNS
than elbow iength. In afternoon and
evening dresses at all events one may
expect to see elaborate sleeves.
The rumored return of the normal
waistline Is not borne .out by present
displays; the waist line continues low
♦ml very often is bloused... Skirts
grow longer and panels continue to i
adorn thefn, usually draped and fall- j
ing below the hem line. Facings in j
contrasting colors, ornamental buckles, j
or cahochons, for holding drapery, and
little silver buttons are much in evi
dence. ,
Several of these new style-points
make their appearance in the after
noon dress of satin-crepe that is pic
tured here. It is one of the sleeveless
models in which bcth bodice and skirt
are Ingeniously drrped and the dra
pery faced with satin-crepe In a con
trasting color. The small silver but
tons and ornamental buckle will har
monize with any color combination.
Anwher frock of crepe shown in the
picture has adopted the loose strap
trim. In this instance the straps are
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amplified Into narrow panels. pointed,
where tliey are sot on to the bodice,
and- edged with Hut silk braid. They
fasten under the hem of the skirt.
Klbow sleeves, flaring slightly. add to
their reputation fo-. beauty by wldJ
borders of georgette. edged with braid.
TW« little French lass will never
feel the tooth In the wind of au
tumn while she Is clad In lu*r smart
outfit of knitted wool. She is fortified
against It by a coat that has a inuf-
fler collar and thstens up snugly at
one side frt>m col.nr to hem. It Is. of ,
knitted wool in a very dark red com- 1
bined with whit*. She wears also
knitted tights in the same colour, white
wool sox and a pretty wool cap with
little yarn tassel hanging on a cord
at the back. Comfy pockets offer a j
warm refuge for small hands and the
designer, having discovered a place
above one of them where quaint
flowers might bloom, immediately or
dered them to be embroidered there.
Manufacturers of knitted outer wear
have anticipated the fall needs of
school children, big and little, and ar« :
concerned with those of everybody else I
from the baby to grandmother. Theii j
sturdy products are ideal for the little j
folks because they are warm, elastit
and durable.
Meantime those whose business 's
designing dresses for girts have turned
out many practical and pretty models
for school wear. They are using that
dependable old favorite, navy blut
serge, tweed and jersey textures and
wool crepes. Some wool poplin is rep
resented and duvetyn Is forecast for
wear later on.
Styles retain the straight, low-belted
lines of the summer and look to novel
ties in trimmings to give them a dis
tinctive flavor of fall. Tin-checked
taffetsfS are used for Peter Pan Collars,
plaited vestees and puffs from elbow
to wrist on sleeves. Gaily colored rib
bons, silk braid —including soutache
applique of colored leather In'leaf de
signs and other applique trinimings o!
materials are among the new trimmlnj
Ideas. Red, yellow or green are likei
IN WOOL FROM HEAD TO FOOT
on navy blue serges, and they make at
tractive collars und cuffs.
The demand for bloomers to mate!
drosses for all school girls, appear!
to f>e growing, and even grownups an
experimenting with this combinatioi
for winter wear.
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Immmmrn "IT SAVED MY LIFE"
The Feeling Tribute of a Woman to
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The salary of an M. I'. is £4OO
Inally H year, on whicK lie
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days of antl-vaste campaigns both i
ministry and house of commons
shrink from increasing it. Hut the law
officers* of the crown suddenly dis
covered that an M. P.'s expenses may
!• gitimately be reckoned against his
Income, so that the poorer of them
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parliament ministry, since it seems
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"I wish to get some butter, please,"
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"Roll butter, ma'am?" he asked, po
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A writer in the Dallas News says
that people will soon have to agree
with him on the subject of dress. "The
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er it be undress, full dress, or liair
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i disease. It is the ability to resist dis :
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