Mil HALLE EDM1ME - ' . . :? ffll '. 1LLU5TRATION5 6 LAUREN 5TOUT 5 uU SYNOPSIS. suddenly discovers that the valiant cor poration, which his father founded and which was he principal source of his wealth, has failed. He voluntarily tunr, 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 neg lected estate In Virginia. On the way to Damory court he meets Shirley Dand rldg. an auburn-haired beauty,' and de cide that he Is going to like Virginia Im mensely Shirley's mother, Mrs. Dand ridge, aiM Major Eristow exchange rem iniscences during which It is revealed that the nvJor. Valiant's father, and a man named Bassoon were rivals for the hand of Mrs. Dandrldge in her youth. Bassoon and Valiant fought $ duel on her account In which the former was killed. Valiant finds Damory court .overgrown with weeds and creepers and decides to rehabilitate the place. Valiant saves Shirley from the bito of a snake, which bites him. Knowing the deadllness of the bite, Shirley sucks the poison from the wound and saves his life. Valiant learns for the first time that his father left Vir ginia on account of a duel In which Doc tor Southall and Major Brlstow acted as his father's seconds. Valiant and Shirley become good friends. Mrs. Dandrldge faints when she meets Valiant for the first time. VaTta.pt discovers that he has a fortune in old walnut trees. The yearly tournament, a survival of , the Jousting of feudal times, is held at Damory court. -At the last moment Valiant takes the place of one of the knights, who is sick, and enters the lists. He wins and chooses Shirley Dandrige as queen of beauty to the dismay of Katherlne Fargo, a former sweetheart, who is visiting ih Virginia. The tournament ball at Damory court draws the elite of the countryside. CHAPTER XXIV. Continued. To the twanging of the deft black fingers, they passed in gorgeous array between files of low-cut gowns and flower-like faces and masculine swallow-tails, to the yellow parlor. Once there the music ceased with a splendid crash, the eleven knights each dropped upon one knee, the eleven ladles-in-waiting curtsied low, and Shirley, seat ed upon the dais, leaned her burnished head to receive the crown. . What though the bauble was but bristol board, its Jeweled chasing but tinsel and paste? On her head it glowed and trembled, a true diadem. As Valiant set the glittering thing on those rich and wonderful coils, the music of her presence was singing a swift melody in his blood. His coronation address held no such flowerv Tierioda as wnnlH hnvo mil 01V from the major's soul. He had chosen a single paragraph he had lighted on in an old book in the library a history-of the last Crusade in French black-letter. He had translated axld memorized the archaic phrasing, keeping the quaint feeling of the original: "These noble knights bow in your presence, fair lady, as their , leige, whom they know as even In Judgment, as dainty In fulfilling these our acts of arms, and do recommend their all unto your Good Grace in as lowly wise as they can. O queen, in whom the whole story of virtue is written with the language of beauty, your eyes, which have been only wont to discern the bowed knees of kneeling hearts and, inwardly turned, found always the heavenly solace of a sweet mind, tee them, ready in heart and able with bands not nnlv tn aaaaillnv hut n nra. vailing." ... A hushed . rustle of applause not loud: the merest whisper of silken feet and feathered fans tapped softly testified to a widespread approbation. It was the first sight many there had had of John Valiant and in both looks and manner he fitted their best ideals. The queen's curtsey was the signal for the music, which throbbed sudden ly into a march, and she stepped down beside him. Couple aftew couple knights and ladies, ranged behind them, till the twenty-four stood ready for the Toyal quadrille. It.was the old fashioned lancers, but the deliberate strain lent the famillaV measures some thing of the stately effect of the min net. Quadrilles were not Invented as aids to conversation, and John Valiant's and Shirley's was necessarily limited "The decorations are simply deli clous!" she said as. they faced each other briefly. "How did you manage "Home talent with a vengeance. Un cle Jefferson and I did it with our lit tie hatchets. But the roses " They were swooped apart and Shir ley found herself curtsying to Chilly Lusk.. "More than queen!" he said under his breath. "I had my heart eei on naming you today. I reckon 1 ve lost my rabbit-foot! Opposite, in turn, Betty Page had BiJijpea ner aainty nand in John vi iant's- - "Ah haven't seen such a lovely unfiw ior yeans:" sne sighed. Isn't Dmney 100 sweetT if Ah had hair like on moonlighted garden at Rosewood, she had lain in his arm for. one brief in stant then she had seemed like some trapped wood-thing resisting. Now, her slender body swaying to his every motion, .she was another; creature. Un der the drooping tawny hair her' face was almost as pale aa the white satin of her gown; her Hps were parted, and as they moved, he could feel her heart rise and fall to her languorous breath. no hers, Ah wouldn't speak to a soul . j a aa earcn: . . - - The exigencies of the fl euro travn - "V space for answer, and nroaontiv certain labyrinthine evolutions, vShir- ey s eyes were gazing into his again wow adorable you look J" he - whis pered, as he bowed . over her, hand .now ioes it feel to be a queen?" "This little head was never made wear a crown," she laughed. "Queens snouia be regal. Miss Fargo would nave . - . The music swept the rest away, BOt the look of blinding ' O v WMVU U gave her. that made her heart throb ..11 Jll - . a . . wuuiy as sne guaea on. ' . The last note of the quadrille slip- pea into . a waltz dreamily slow, Valiant nut h! Arm nhmif Shlrlcv they floated away. Once before, la to but he and and the CHAPTER XXV. By the Sun-Dial. Eyes arched with fan-shielded whis pers, and fair faces, foreshortened as they turned back over powder-white shoulders, followed their, swallow-like movement. From an ever-wiaening circle of masculine devotees Katharine Fargo watched them .with a smile that cloaked an increasing and unwelcome question. , Katharine had never looked more handsome; a critical survey of her mirror at Gladden Hall had assured her of that Never had her poise been more superb, her toilet more enraptur ing. She was exquisitely gowned in rose-colored mousseline-de-sole, em broidered in tiny brilliants laid on in Greek patterns. From her neck, in a single splendid loop pf iridescence against the rosy mist, depended those fabulous pearls "the kind you Bim ply can't believe," as Betty Page con fided to ,her partner oh whose news paper 'reproduction (actual diameter) metropolitan shop-girls had been wont to gaze with glistening eyes; and with in their milky circlet, on her rounded breast, trembled three pale gold-veined orchids. Watching that quadrille through her drooping emerald-tinted eyes; she had received a sudden enlightening impres sion of Shirley s flawless beauty. At the tournament her fleeting glimpse had adjudged the other merely sweetly pretty. The Chalmers' surrey had stopped en route for Shirley, but In her wraps and veil she had then been all but invisible. This had been Kath arine's first adequate view, and the sight of her radiant charm had the effect almost of a blow. For Katharine, be it said, had wholly surrendered to the old, yet new, at traction that had swept her on the tourney field. And what had lain al ways in the back of her mind as a half formed intention, had become a self admitted . purpose during the motor ride. In another moment the waltz fainted out, to be succeeded by a duax-temps. and presently the host. In his crimson cloak, was doffing his plumed hat be fore her. Circling the polished floor in the maze, . there was something gratefully like former days in the as sured touch, the true and ready guid ance. The intrusive question faded. He was the John Valiant she had al ways known, of flashing repartee and graceful compliment, yet with a touch of dignity, too aa befitted the lord of a manor which sat well upon him. After-a decorous dozen of rounds, she took his arm and allowed her perfect Katharine Had Never Looked More Handsome. figure to be conducted through the various rooms of the ground floor, chatting in quite the old-time way, till a new gallant claimed her. The mellow strings 'made on their merry tune, and at length the Wash ington Post marched all In flushed unity of purpose, to the great muslln- walled porch with its array of tables groaning under viands concocted by Aunt Daphne for the delectation of the palate-weary. . - And then once more the waltz-strain supervened and in the " yellow parlor Joy was again miconfined. - Again Valiant claimed ' Katharine and they glided off on "The Beautiful Danube." Her paleness now had a tinge of color, but nevertheless he thought she drooped. "You are, tired," he said, "shan't we sit it out?" " "Oh, do you mind?" she responded gratefully, -"It has been a fairly stren uous day, hasn't It!" y -" He guided her to a. corridor, where branches of rhododendron screened an' alcove of settees and seductive cush ions. Here, her weariness seemed put to rout. There was no drooping of fringed lids, no disconcerting si lences; . she chattered with ease and piquancy "I have been listening to paeans all the evening," , she said. "And you de serve them. It's a fine big thing you are attempting the restoring of this old estate. And J know you have even bigger plans, too." He nodded, suddenly serious and thoughtful. "There's a lot I'd like to do. It's not only the house - and grounds." There are . .. other things.. For instance, back on the mountain-on my own land Is a set tlement they call Hell's-Half-Acre. Probably it has , well earned the name. It's a wretched collection of hovels and surly den and ; drabs of women and unkempt children, the poorest of poor-whites. Not one of them can read or write, and they live like animals. If I'm ever able, I mean to put a manual-training school up there; And then " He ended with a half laugh, sudden ly conscious that he was talking, in a language she would scarcely under stand In fact, in a tongue new to him self. But there was no smile on her Hps and her extraordinary eyes cool gray, shot through with emerald were looking into his with a frankness and sympathy he would not have guessed lay beneath her glacial pla cidity. To Katharine, indeed, it made little difference what philanthropic fads the man she had chosen might affecfaa regarded Ms tenantry! Ambjtlons like these had a manorial flavor that did not displease her. And the Fargo mil lions would bear much harmless ham mering. A change,. subtle and incom municable, passed over her. "I shall think of you,M she sighed, "as working on in this splendid pro gram. For it Is splendid. But New, York will miss you, John ' "Ah, no. I've no delusions on that score. I dare say I'm almost forgotten there already. v Here I have a place." Her head, leaned back against the cushion, turned toward him, the pale orchids trembling on her bosom she was so near that he could feel her breath on his cheek. A new waltz had begun to sigh its languorous meas ures. , ' "Place?" she queried. "Do you think you had no place there? Is it possible that you do not understand that your going has left a void?" A He looked at her suddenly, and her eyes fell. Before he answered, how ever, the big form of Major Bristow appeared, looking about him. 'It has left a void," she said, her eyes still downcast, her voice Just low enough, "for me." The major pounced upon them at this Juncture, feelingly accusing John of the nefarious design of robbing the assemblage of its bright and partic ular star. When Katharine put her hand In her cavalier's arm, her eyes were dewy under their long .shading lashes and her fine lips ever so little tremulous. It had been her best avail able moment, and she had used it As she moved away, her faint color slightly heightened, she was glad of the interruption. It was better as it waB. When John Valiant came to her again. . . . But to him, as he stood watching her move lightly from him, there was vouchsafed illumination. It came to him suddenly that that placidity and hauteur which he had so admired in the old day 8 were no mask for. fires within. 'The exquisite husk was the real Katharine. Hers was the loveli ness of some tall white lily cut in marble, splendid but chill. And with the thought, between him and her there swept through the shimmering candle-lighted air a breath of wet rose fragrance like' an impalpable cloud, and set in the midst of it a misty star tinted gown sprayed with lilles-of -the-valley; and above It a girl's face clear and vivid, her deep shadow-blue eyes fixed on his. . . The music of a two-step was lan guishing when, a little later, .Valiant and Shirley strolled down between the garden box-hedges, cypress-shaped and lifting spire-like toward a sky which bent, a silent canopy of mauve and , purplish blue. Behind them Damory court lay a nest of woven music and laughter. The long whlte musllned porch shimmered goldenly, and beside It under the lanterns dal lied a-flirtatious couple or two, ghost like In the shadows. "Come," he said. "Let me take you to see the sun-dial now." The tangle had been cut away and a narrow gravel-path led through the pruned creepers. She made an excla mation of delight The onyx-pillar stood In an oasis of white moonfiow ers, white dahlias, mignonette and nar cissus; bars of late lllles-of-the-val-ley beyond these, bordered with Arum lilies, white clematis, iris and bridal wreath, shading out into tender, paler hues that ringed the spotless purity like dawning passion. . " : - "White for happiness," he quoted. "You said that when you brought me here the day, we planted the ram blers. Do ; you ' remember what" I said? That some day perhaps, I should lpve tills spot the best of all at,Dambry court" He was silent a moment, trac ing with his "finger the motto on the dial's rim. "When I was very little, he went on "hardly , more than three years old, I think my father and I had a play, in ; which w lived In a grt mansion Ilk this. It was called Wishing House, and it was in the mid dle of the Never-Never Land a sort of beautiful fairy country in which everything happened . right - I know now that the Never-Never Land was Virginia, and that Wishing House was Damory court No wonder my father loved it! No wonder his memory turn ed back to it always!' I've wanted Ho make it as it was when he lived here. "And I want the old dial to count happy hours for me. , Something, had crept into his tone that struck her with a strange sweet terror and tumultXf mind. The hand that clutched her skirts about her knees had - begun to tremble and she caught the other hand to her cheek in a vague hesitant gesture. The moon flowers seemed to be great round eyes staring up it her. - "Shirley" he said, and now his voice was shaken with longing "will you make my happiness for me?" She was standing -perfectly V still against the sun dial, both hands, laced together, against iher breast, her eyes on his with a strange startled look. Over the hush of the garden now, like the very soul of the passionate night, throbbed the haunting barcarole of "Tales of Hoffmann:" - ''Night of stars and night of love" f ' an inarticulate echo of his longing. He took a step toward her, and she turn ed like one in sudden terror seeking a way of escape. But he caught her close in his arms. "I love you!" he said. "Hear it now in my bride's garden that I've made for you! I love you, I love you!" For one instant she struggled. Then, slowly, her eyes turned to1 his, the sweet lips trembling, and something dawning deep in the dewy blue jthat turned all his leaping blood to quick silver. "My darling!" he breathed, and their lips met In that delirious moment both had the sense of divine completion that comes only with love returned. For him there was but the woman in his arms, the one woman created for him since the foundation of the "World. It was Kismet For this he had come to Virginia. For this fate had turned and twisted a thousand ways. Through the riot of his senses, like a silver blaze, ran the legend of the calendar: 'Every man carries his fate upon Lptknown as many months ! riband about his neck." For her, some thing seemed to pass from her soul with that kiss, some deep Irrevocable thing, shy but fiercely strong, that had sprung to him at that lip-contact as steel to magnet The foliage about them flared up in green light and the ground under her feet rose and fell like deep sea-waves. She lifted her face to him. It was deathly pale, but the light that burned on it was lit from the whitest altar fires of southern girlhood. "Six weeks ago," she whispered, "you had never seen me!" He held her crushed to him. She could feel his heart thudding madly. "I've always known you," he said. "I've seen you a thousand times. I saw you coming to meet me down a cherry blossomed lane, in Kyoto. I've seen your eyes peering from behind a veil In India. I've heard your voice calling to me, through the padding camel's feet, from the desert mirages." You are the dream I have gone searching always! Ah, Shirley. Shirley, Shirley!" her spirits She had been so certain of what would happen that evening that when her father (between cigars on ; the porch with Judge Chalmers and Doctor Southall) . had searched her out under a flag-of-truce, she had sent him to the right-about, laughingly de clining to depart before royalty. But number followed number, and the knight in purple and gold had not paused again before her. Now the scarlet cloak no longer flaunted among the dancers, and the white satin gown and sparkling coronal had disappeared. The end of the next "round-dance" found her subsiding into the flower-banked alcove sudden ly distrait amid her escort's sallies. It was at this moment that she saw, en tt5rlp.fr te corridor from the garden, the miss&af couple. i It was not the ffciiit flush on Shir ley's cheek that was not deep nor was it his nearness to her, though they stood closely, as lovers might But there was In both laeir faces a some thing that resurgent conventionality had not had time to cover a trem bling reflection of that "light that never was, on sea or land" which was like a death-stab to what lay far deep er than Katharine's heart her pride. She drew swiftly back, dismayed at the sudden verification, and for an in stant her whole body chilled. A craving for a glass of water has served its purpose a thousand times; as her cavalier solicitously departed to fetch the cooling draught, she rose, and carelessly humming the refrain the music had Just left off, sauntered lightly, out by another door to the open air. A swift glance about her showed her she was unobserved and she step ped down to the grass and along the winding path to a bench at some dis tance In the shrubbery. Fre the smiling mask slipped from br face and with a shiver she dropped Irer hot face in her hands. There were no tears. The wave that was welling over her was one ojf bitter humiliation. She had shot, her bolt and missed sle, Katharine Far go! For three yers she had held John Valiant roma tically speaking iaj the hollow of yher shapely hand. Now she had all but thrown herself at his feet and he had turned away to this flame-haired, vivid girl whom he had CHAPTER XXVI. The Doctor Speaks. While the vibrant strings hummed and sang through the roses, and the couples drifted on tireless and con tent, or blissfully "sat out" dances on the stairway, Katharine Fargo held her stately court no less gaily for the- f stealthy doubt that was creeping over Heavy footfalls all at once aproach- ed her two men were coming from the house. There was the spitfing crackle of a match, and as she peer4 out its red flare lighted the massive face and floating hair of Major Bris tow. His companion's face was in tb shadow. She waited, thinking they would pass ; but to . her annoyance-, when she looked again, they had seat ed themselves on a bench a few paces away. To be found mooning in the shrub bery like a schoolgirl did not pleas her, but it seemed there was no re course, and she had half arisen, when the major's gruff-voiced companion spoke a name that caused her to alt down abruptly. ITO BE CONTINUED.) Sometimes Thus. That cry in a London paper of a jour nalist who "finds it Impossible to maintain that appearance so essential in his profession" i carries one back to the past with a ferk. Back to the days when appearance was not al ways "so essential" to the writer. One recalls Samuel Boyse, a . contemporary of Johnson, for Instance, who worked only when his clothes were in pawn. His dress pledged, he would spend a few shillings thus acquired on meat to eat with his truffles and mushrooms and then take to his bed. There he would get binder a blanket slit to al low free play of his pen Iiand, and start work with a will, . MADE HIM FEEL LONESOME 8am Blythe, on the Water Wagon, . Found That He Had No One to ' - . Play With. ' . Two years ago Sam Blythe, the writer , elected to mount the water cart He became boastfully, painfully, selfishly arid. For a time false friends tried to lure him back into the shack lesbetween September 15, 191i, and June 23, 1912, he received. 418 bottles of whisky from 312 persons but they finally gave It up as a bad Job. 'The other day Blythe was talking with two serfs of the demon at the Waldorf. By and by . their mania came upon them. They began to edge toward the bar. , 1 "Well, Sam, see you later," they said. . ' i "No," said Blythe "Dunno. You may not care to have me lit your lit tle party, but I am going right along. I. will drink, water, or buttermilk, ox ginger ale, or any non-alcoholic thing you;: iy, but I am not going to stay out here all alone.' Why. Sam, you're welcome' said the "bond slaves, feclT. , - . "No, I am not" si&ld Blythe. "I can tell by the to of your voices. I spent the best. 20 years of my life making collection of drinkinf friends, and now I have no one to olay with." Cincinnati Times-Star. ... . ' '" " - f "..i ; - ---'" i ; Concave Cinema Screen. Eliminating ; false perspective and making every portion " of the picture equally distant from tha projecting light a Chicago inventor ha - patent ed and nlar.eri on Vio . - uiai jkBb . h coa cave screen for which much Is clain ed. j Tht Aa i .... . . - -., w 2u is segment c sphere, the lena rt W -..- r "jcvtjuis paratus being at -the focal point Bwccu, una as a result all ravs ; of sv. - - . --- - Jt uio - b urines the same angle, and are reflected mo Ywiiura. wimout distortion. Other- virturA nlafma r 11. y ".v. ivf me cone screen, says Popular Mechanic, tA 4 i uipruves me s.coustid ties of the hall, or thfiater hi it is used. As sound waves are Jected and refleetPd in t, . . v BB1UI3 J ner, the concave screen reflects uiuBic 01 uie orcnestm and A 1 1 - m m Mm .Ml w xiaris or me thexher: vury common fnnlt. - - of a ai at the at to An concave is proper which pro- maxk tfct t soma TEXT Tie cr head; woe Lam. 5:16. thatehaJ m is ular mod K mac ners in iv." err. rnn Who obJectS Preacher J these may we seeoLeheM him who knows the way --ciuss, mat is all my- Unrighteousness. : 1. All unricrVifn,, fi-7 r"", es8 iBsin term and In the Bible is JS Position to "truth." ilN one .hair's breadth from that s unnghteousness. or sin. C5 tni8 aennition we have to purpose of which was tebeaS reflection of the mind of God. i was to elorifv QnH in v., . . " MOT, n-J and spirit, but, alas, what a J there has been; and this failure lauea 10 nit the aim ot ohvl of his being. His body is mi mind is diseased, his soul is J YtTT dirt "Ml 1 ! . Pi j aii uae smneo and cd snort or the glory of God." Eves Tlghteousness is as filthy tnis sense sin is "any lack of conlorjl uy to the' will of God." Transgression. 52. Sin is the transgression of N law. (I John 3:4.) From the state d the soul we pass to the-wert ad fc the days of the dispensation of science and before the giving of fe law, sin was against the ebaractsi God. It was unrighteousness, or 1 godliness, and not, strictly speafc; transgression; and yet, there rat because death came, which it wages of sin, the result of Adam'a disobedience to' a positive eomi But when the law has come,fhei nnnimoTiHmont Via a haon r!Ton Af wiii iim.ii v. uug ivvii q.'vm, I sin passes from the unrighteousiea:j positive transgression. God las & down a line, and by deliberate ttj man steps over the line transgrae. M 1 1 -ana oecomes a sinner uj cuiui- If "violation of the will of God" You say you do not sin, youwk ing the best you can. Yes, bit jr. have a verv low idea of sin. Bra your crooked life, which seems to you, side by side with the stn&j line of God's sinless life and biikj law, and you must cry out, HA merciful to me the sinner." ToisJ look good to yourself, you mayspFj good to your neighbors, out n ; sight you belong to the wlciea of vour many sins against Go( of perfect love, Borne idol in ?g heart, neglect of his Sabbath, m or 'angry feelings, lack of tajWJj or apology, misrepresentaim hood, deceit, slander, repea e n rlear command W V JJ say, do you not need to cry clean, unclean?" 3. To him that knoweth to g and doeth it not, it is sin (JiJJJ Many a man defends h mse he is not an outbreak does hot commit any flagr he is outwardly decent and J what about God's estimate "Man looketh on the utj ance, but God looketh ion Does that man in his heart? Does he 1 ve W J and prayer? Does he sen lows unselfishly? Uff all these things, he is a J fuse to use med cine w sick, and you out the use of he kni When we sit alone sciences we find sins y a large item in the a count a? Unfaith. itj; 4. Whatsoever Is not 0 (Rom. 14:23.) Here main of Questions of J things which bbeerDin 4 but which would be s 4 r difference oe wrong in themselves of&n under certain circuntf 1 .o rv j m conscience .y. Paul's day about thee which had been offers 1 afterwards of ered . kets of the city, ntofg man is to give an Zo God, and yo j5 that if anything torJ sinful and wrong, .the 5 such a thing i 8 flueO category must be PjJ . amusements etc. ken t hS condemn eJ nappy t..ne Whica - in tnat j And a m 1 faith; for whatsoe ( lg sin." t,ot thing u ,. sen m ,...pth J" ;,. t'i V.ot UUU" ..tPUl ' .f eat, w- q uv