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roct Result of 8u-ii interest to the f C TIALLm EDM1NIE RIVES 11 LAUREN 3TOUT SYNOPSIS. John Valiant, a rich society favorite, suddenly discover that the Valiant 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 neg lected estate in Virginia, On the way to Damory court he meets Shirley Dana ridge, an auburn-haired beauty, and de cides that he is going to like Virginia Im mensely. 8hlrleys mother. Mrs. Dand ridge, and Major Bristow exchange rem iniscences during which it is revealed that the major. 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 aeoount 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 blto of a snake, which bites him. Knowing the deadliness of the bite, Shirley sucks the poison from the mnnil an1 mvm hi life. Valiant learns for the first time that his father left Vlr- lihrary, but not alone the old nigger I "Maybemaybe an hour, Bristow. Maybe not." The major winced and shut his eyes, but when the doctor, reaching swiftly for a phial on the table, turned again, it was to find that look once more on him, now in yearning appeal. "South all." he said, "send for Judith. I I must see her. ' There's time." The Judge started up. "I'll bring her," he said, and his voice had all the tenderness of a woman's. "My car riage is at the door and with those horses she ought to be here in twenty minutes." He leaned over the couch. Bristow," he said, "would you would was with him! Uncle Jefferson bore a tray with a frosted goblet over whose rim peeped green leaves and which spread abroad an ambrosial odor, which the major sniffed .approvingly as the other set the burden on the desk at his elbow, v "Majah," said the latter solemnly, "you reck'n Mars' John en Mise Shir ley" "Good lord!" said the major, wheel ing to the small ormolu clock on the desk. "It's 'most four o'clock. Haven't you any idea where he's gone?" No. suh. less'n he's gwineter look ovah dem walnut trees. Whut Ah's you like, me to send tor tne rector t gwlne ter say yo' reck'n Mars' John The major smiled, a little wistfully. en Miss " " and shook his head. He lay silent for "Walnut trees? Is he going to eell a while after the Judge had gone out them?" , he seemed housing nis strength wnne Tree man come f'om up norf some- the ormolu clock on the desk ticked inia on account of a duel in which Doc- ter Be erbout et ylstidday, Yas, ominously on, and the doctor busied S; Ether's trvntrs suh. Yo' reck'n Mars' John en-' become good friend. Mrs. Dandridge "Nice pot of money tied up In that raints wnen sne meets vsuan yi , ,, ,v vo. first time. Valiant discovers that he nas i umoert xio saw it nguv uu. a fortune in old walnut trees. 1 ne yeany i a ucy 0id rascal to have mnvior a tournament, a survivui ui mo yz I 1 feudal times, is held at Damory court. At master. the last moment Valiant taices me pmc 01 one oi me kuis"". " I ..t . KAfoli enters the lists. He wins ana cnooees uu. xjo.hi rjr ju ui. c ucy Shirley Dandridge as queen of beauty to dan drlvin er 01 stage, ter de deepo Z'l&t.vSS ter drummahs en llghtnin'-rod agenU. The tournament ball at Damory court I An fin0 j0 pray je Q00(l Man ter mek araws me eme 01 me cvuuuj.iuS. r ti 1 u aaa .nKArW ley is crowned by Valiant as queen 01 i iuwb juuu uayyj, uo ouuw ovuaaj, beauty. Valiant tells Shirley of his love "Dut Ah's moughtly "sturbed In mah ana mey Decome fngugeu. ""'".r mlnH mniurht'lv 'atnrhfid' Pftreo. determining not to give up Vali- mina mougnt ly 6turD6Q. tint without a strueel. nolnts out to Shir- Th hidden wa.tr.hftr waited motion .trrihlA it would be for the worn- I . . . . . u h th duel to meet Valiant. ieBS. rTom wnere no swwa uo who looks so much like his ratner. enir- looK He malted U1I tnrougn tne rear "y-Ji"W"' vsml window he saw the negro's bent figure ant's pistol, breaks the engagementGreef disappear Into the kitchens. Then he lnJLJ lifted himself upright, and JLi to IV TV iiau V w-f -- I . . . against his prosecutor. Valiant pieaas resting tne pistol on we screen-iop, with Shirley, but raws to persuaae tQQ deiiberate aim and pulled the IU tiiaufia uci utuwuui . lit The hammer clicked sharply on the worthless thirty-year-old cartridge, and the major sprang around with an ex 'Hyuh, byuh!" agreed Uncle Jeffer- "No," He Said, In Answer to Her Look, "Ho Won't Rouse Again." CHAPTER XXXI. Continued. Uncle Jefferson's lips relaxed in a wide grin. "Ah reck'n dah's er few stray sprigs lef, suh. Step in en mek I clamation, as with an oath, the other yo'se'f et home. Ef Mars' John see I dashed the screen aside and again yo', he be mought'ly hoped up. Ah pulled the trigger. gwineter mix yo' dat julep in two "You infernal knurderer!" cried the shakes!" major. It was all he said. for. as he He disappeared around the corner swung his chair up. the one-time bully k,,oai, va iQlB.oa wm! Mm rt VtA nnih on1 in a malnr armnA Intn I TT 11 TT1 1 1 V A I A I i the hall, threw his gray slouch hat struck him a single : sledge-hammer on the table, and sat down. blow with the clubbed pistol. It fell It was quiet and peaceful, that an- fUn 0n the Major's temple and the dent hall. He feu to thinking of we heavy Iron crashed throagh. many times, of old, when he had sat Qreef King stood an Inetant breath' there. The house was the same again, ing hard. then, without withdrawing " Ti V J ... 1 ,3 ll.t I . m a . . . . a uuw. xi uau wiiKu iiuui a muy mg eves irom ine nrostraie iorm. nis years slumber to a renewed prime, hand groped for the cold, goblet and Presently he said huskily: "You've had a bad fall, Bristow. You were dizzy, I reckon." "Dizzy!" echoed the major with feeble asperity. "It was Qreef King." Greef King! Good God!" 'He was hiding behind the screen. He struck me with something. He swore at his trial he'd get me. I was On he had lived on meanwhile and ,tIng It to hi. p.( drained It io Its 1 12 tool not to haVe remembered hi. now was old. He sighed. How gay the place had been the night of the ball, with the lights and roses and mueic! He remembered what the doctor had said about Val dregs. "There!" he said. "Them's my six-years' debt paid in full, ye lily-liv ered, fancy-wesklted hellion! Take that from the mayor of the Dome!' There was a man's step on the lant and Shirley it had lain ever gravel and the sudden bark of a dog. since in his mind, a painful . specula- I The pistol fell from hie hand. He tlon. The recollection roueed another I stole on tlctoe alone the corridor and thought from which he shrank. He J leaped through the French window. Burrea uneasily, vv nat on earia Kept i as ne aasnea across the lawn, a that old darky so long over that Julep? startled cry came from the house be- A slight noise made him turn his head. But nothing moved. Only a creak of the woodwork, he thought. and settled back again In his chair. hind him. No human eye had seen him, but he had been observed for all that. Run your best now. Greef King! Double It was in fact, a stealthy footfall and turn how you will, there Is a swift- major dlfflculUy. "But I reckon tilt1! CT:J:ml r!B?.?-J";?!f betterbeeettleawith.or.he'll ...-.j, outvuj u6uio i ana noi a Dig one at inai, dui u is or a crouched, listening, In the corner be- faithful breed that knows neither fear hind the tapestried screen a man nor quarter. Like white lightning, evuiy ciaa, wun a scarrea cneex. without a bark or growl. Chum It had been with no good purpose launched himself on the fieeine auar- that Greef King had dogged the major ry, and In the shadow of the trees his these last few days. He hugged a hot teeth met in the razzed trousers-lee. hatred grown to white heat in six Kicking, beating with his hands at the dragging weight, the man dashed on. Not till they had reached the hem locks was that fierce grip broken, and then it was with a tearing of flesh and sinew. Panting, snarling with rage and pain, the man seized a fallen branch and stood at bay, striking out with vicious sweeping blowe. But the bull dog, the hair bristling up on his thick neck, his red-rimmed eyes fiery, cir cled beyond reach of the flail, crouch ing, for another spring. Again he launched himself, and the man, dodging, blundered full-face into time was out" A look, wolMlke and grim, had sprung Into the doctor's face. His eyes searched the room, and he crossed the floor and picked up something from the rug. He looked at it a moment, then thrust it hastily Into his breast pocket. ' "I remember now. It was a pistol. He snapped it twice, but It missed fire. He can't hide where well not find him!" The doctor spoke with low but terrible energy. Not that I care myself," said the he'd be kill ing some one worth while one of these days. A big tear suddenly loosed itself from the doctor's eyelid and rolled down his cheek, and he(turned hastily away. There's no call to feel bad," said the major gruffly. "I've sort of been a thorn-In-the-flesh to you. Southall. We always rowed, somehow, and yet ' The doctor choked and cleared his throat. ! I reckon," the major murmured with a faint smile, "you won't get quite 60 much fun out of Chalmers and the rest. They never did rise to you as I did." A little later he asked for the restor ative. '.'Ten minutes gone," he said then. "Chalmers ought to be at Rose wood by now . . what a fool way to go like this. But it wasn't apo plexy, Southall, anyway." At the sound of wheels on the drive. As they passed Valiant, she held out her hand to him. There was no word between them, but as his hand swal- owed hers, his heart said to her, "I ove you, I love you! No matter what a between us, I shall always love you!" It was wordless, a heart-whisper that only love itself could hear, and he could read no answer in the deep pools of her eyes, heavy now with un shed tears. But in some subtle way his voiceless greeting comforted and lightened by a little the weight of dumb impotence that he had borne. In the library, lighted so brightly by the sunlight, yet grave with the hush of that solemn presence, the major looked Into the face of the woman for whose coming. he had waited so anx iously. - . "It's all up, Judith," he said faintly. I've come to the Jumping-off place." She looked at him whitely. "Monty, Monty!" she cried. "Don't leave me ttys way! I "always thought " He guessed what she would have said. "Heaven knows you re needed more than me, Judith. After all, I reckon when my time had to come I'd have chosen the quick way." His voice trailed, out and he struggled for breath. "Jerry's in the hall, Monty. He asked me to give you his love." ' "Poor old nigger! He used to tote me on his back when I was a little shaver." There was a silence. "Don't kneel, Judith," he said at length. "You will be so tired." She rose obediently and drew up a chair. "Monty," she faltered tremu lously, "shall I say a prayer? I've nev er prayed much my prayers never seemed to get above the ceiling, some how. But I'll try." He smiled wanly. "I wouldn't want any better than yours, Judith. But seems as If I'd been prayed over enough. I reckon God Almighty's like anybody else, and doesn't want to be ding-donged all the time." He seemed to have been gathering his resolution, and presently his hand fumbled over his breast. "My wallet; give It to me." She drew It from the pocket and the uncertain fingers tools. out a key. "It opens a tin box in (my, trunk. There's a letter In it for yW He paused a moment, panting: lTu dith," he said, "I've got to tell you, iut It's mighty hard. The letter . It's one Valiant, gave me for you that morning, after the duel. I never gave it to you." If she had been white before, she grew like marble now. Her slim fin gers clutched the little cane till it rat tled against the chair, and the lace at her throat shook with her breathing. "Yes Monty." He lifted his hand with difficulty and put the key into hers. "The seal's still unbroken, Judith," he said, "but I've kept it these thirty years." She was holding the key in her hands looking down upon it There was a strained half-ffearful wonder in her face. For an instant she seemed. quite to have forgotten him in the grip or some swift ana painful, emo tion. "I loved you, Judith!" he mered in anguished appeal. ' the time we were boy and girl togeth er, I loved you. You never cared for me Sassoon and Valiant had the In side track. You might have loved me; but I had no chance with either of them. Then came the duel. There was only Valiant then. I overheard his promise to you that night, Judith. He had broken that! If you cared more for him than for Sassoon, you might have forgiven him, and I should have lost you! I didn't want you to call him back, Judith! I wanted my chance! And sc I took it That's the reason, dear. It's it's a bad one, in'tlt!" A shiver went over her set face- like a breath of wind over tall grass, and she seemed to come back from an infinite distance to place and moment Between the curtains a white butter fly hovered an Instant, and in the yard she heard the sound of some winged thing fluttering. The thought darted to her that It was the sound of her own dead heart awaking. She looked at the key and all at once put a hand to her mouth as though to still words clamoring there. "Judith," he said tremulously, be tween short struggles for breath, "all these years, after I found there was no chance for me, I reckon I've prayed only one prayer. 'God, let it be Sassoon that she loved!' And I've prayed that mighty near every day. The thought that maybe it was Valiant has haunted me like a ghost You never told :and I never dared ask you. Judith" ; Her face was still averted, and when she did not speak he turned his head from her on the pillow, with a breath that was almost a moan. She started, looking at him an instant in piteous hesitation, then swiftly kissed the lit tle key and closed her hand tight upon it Truth? She saw only the pillow and the graying face upon it! She threw herself on her knees by the couch and laid her lips on the pallid forehead. "It it was Sassoon, Monty," she said, and her voice broke on the first lie she had ever told. "Thank God!" he gasped. He strug gled to raise himself on his elbow, then suddenly the and he settled back. Her cry brought strength faded out the doctor, but this stam- Prom time the restorative seemed of no avail, and after a time he came and touched her shoulder. With a last long look at the ash-pale face on the settee she followed him from the room. In the yellow parlor he put her into a chair. "No," he said. In answer to her look, "he won't rouse again." "I will waif she told him, and he left her, shutting the door with care ful softness. I . But the slight figure with Its silver hair, sitting there, was not alone. Ghosts were walking up and down. Not the misty wraiths John Valiant had at times imagined went flitting along the empty corridors, but faces very clear in the sunlight that came and went with the memories so long woven over by the shuttle of time evoked now by the touch of a key that her hand still clenched tightly in its palm. There welled over her in a tide those days of puzzle, the weeks of waiting silence, the slow inexorable months of heartache, the long years that had deepened the mystery of Beauty Vali ant's exile. In the first shock of the news that Sassoon had fallen by his hand, she had thought she could not forgive him that broken faith. She and his promise to her had not weighed in the balance against the Idea ol manly "honor!" But this bitterness had at length slipped away. "He will write," she had told herself, "and ex plain." But no word had come.' Whis pers had flitted to her the tale of Sassoon's Intoxicationstinging barbs that clung to Beauty Valiant's name. That these should rest unanswered had filled her with resentment and anger. Slowly, but with deadly surety, had grown the belief that he no longer cared. In the end there had been left her only pride the pride that covers its wound and smiles. And she had hidden her wound with flowers. But in the deepest well of her heart her love for him had rested unchanged, clear and defined as a moss in amber wrapped in that mystery of silence. (TO BE CONTINUED.) a thorn-bush. The sharp spines slashed his forehead and the starting blood blinded him, so that he ran with- valiant went out quietly. Huddled ir out sense 01 airecuon straignt upon a cornGr of the hall were Uncle Jef the declivity of Lovers' Leap. fftrsoTl nTld Annt nanhne . with Tero He was toppling on its edge before hoam the malor'a hodv-servant Aiinl he could stop, and then threw, himself Daphne, her apron thrown over her uacirwara, ciuicning desperately at tne face waa rockine to and fro eilentiv. slippery fern-covered rock, feeling his and old Jereboam's Head was bowed ieei dangling over notning. He dug on hla breast valiant went quickly ui uuSer8 mlo me yielding sou ana to the rear of the hall. A painful em- wim Knee ana eiDow strove irenzieoiy barrassment had come to him a curl- to crdwi io me paia. ous confusion tnineline with a fasHrfl- tfut tne white bulldog was upon him. ous sense of shrinking. How should The clamping teeth met in the striving he meet this woman who recoiled from Angers, and with a scream of pain the very sight of hie face? In the years of prison labor within bleak Greef King's hold let go and dog and swiftness of the tragic event he had walls at the clicking shoe-machine, or man went down together. , v forgotten this. From, the backeround witn, -tne chain-gang on blazing or Ten minutes later a motor was hurl-1 he saw Judge Chalmers lift down the frosty turnpikes. He had slunk be- ing itself along the Red Road to the frail form." and suddenly hi hpnrt hind him that afternoon, creeping up village. The doctor was in his office leaped. There were two feminine fig- me tuivts uuuer cover 01 tne Dugnes, ana no time was lost m tne return, urn ures; Shirley was with her mother. ana wnne tne otner talked witn Uncle route they passed Judge Chalmers The doctor stood lust inside the 11- Jefferson, had skirted the house and driving, and seeing the flying haste, brary door and Mrs Dnnrtrldfre, wonf . j r tu. i.n . . . I i ... . . . . . . o- " - emeieu iiuui mo lartner siae, tnrougn ne turned ms sweating pair and lasned hastily toward him, her light cane tap- uu uyeu ieucu winaow. jwow as ne mem aiter tne car. - ping through the stricken eilence. Jere- peered irom Denind the screen,' a vso that when the major finally boam lifted his head and looked at her yunci, Duaiwcu uuiu mo urepiace, uptjueu ms eyes irom tne Dig leatner Diteouslv .. . .. . .. N - - I . . . - . I was in nis nana, ms turtive gaze fell couch, he looked on the faces of two of "noiz'n -More utAttt : i. - - . - v - k u aia ui kj AVBuixi-v i . v n 1 1 mvh ail mm Greef King Stood an Instant Breath ing Hard. upon a morocco-covereo case on a commode "by his side. He lifted its lid and his eyes narrowed as he saw that It held a pistol. He set down the poker noiselessly and took the weapon. He tilted it it was rusted, out there were loads In the ehamher He crouched lower, with a whisDered curs: the major was coming into the his oldest friends. Recollection and Jerry, now," he ' quavered "but yo'-all gib him mah love, Mis' Judith, and tell him" His voice broke, v ' - - "Yes, yes, Jerry, I will." -The doctor closed the door upon her and came to where Shirley waited. Come, my dear." he said; and dropped understanding seemed to come at once. "Well Southall? : The doctor's hand4 closed over the white, one on the settee. He did not answer, but his chin was quivering and he was winking fast. "How long?" asked the major after his arm about her. "Let us go out to a lengthy minuta' , ) . , 1 the garder. ifu "AT Kim says, tw uf'as one fa VJlllt-ll Thlnl. L ft FLOWERS USED AS EMBLEMS Have Been Distinguishing Mark Factions as Long as There . Is Record. of The determination of the "loyal" Ulster men to induce every man, wom an and child to wear a flower as a token of their aversion to. home' rule reminds one how often flowers have been used as emblems. , Since , the leaders of , the Yorkist and Lancastrian parties each plucked a rose in the Temple gardens, the Lan castrian a red and the Yorkist a white, this flower has been a popular emblem. Apart from the fact that red roses are symbolical of love and white of purity, the English national emblem Is the rose; the Legitimist party of France formed, the League of the Rose in imitation of England's Primrose league, while owing .to Gladstone's fondness for white roses many liberals once wished to make them an? ; emblem for their party, but the idea was not adopted,- ' ' ' ' The primrose, it Is said, was Be consfleld's favorite flower, and ha been chosen by his followers, wbj formed the Primrose league, as a$ emblem, while in France, the violet because of its purple hue, was worn by imperialists as an informal token of their loyalty to the Bonapartes. When the son of the ex-Empress EugenH was brought home to be buried aftef being killed In the Zulu campaign, hii body was almost covered in violets. Then,' again, there are favorite n tional emblems. ' There are the liliei of France, the thistle for Scotland, tlx shamrock for Ireland, the leek foi Wales, and the maple leaf for Canada The United States has no national flower and probably never will, owin4 to its wide range , of climate, whirl makes the selection of a flower of usl versal popularity almost impossible. When Document la Valuable. "Father, what is the Constitution! My. son, It is a document that I most sacred to the party thai ts &t power."- -Haw , York fiu presses the peoni??' 5 Serious inteS Uld U The anguish fif pasting of A11 these .ttlnJNkV done away with m1 cold is a veSSf Co1 (M numerous ZT SH drain that catching L? the vital organs . rl1! and judge for vn.r,Iu and practicability Z ,ot stimulate the torpid liver dizestive organs, reeuiate .V "ttW edy for sick headach!te effi ANTI Elegantly BALANCE KEPTbT Increase of the Human Rac. I y wars and Other Devastation Every year, accords . who attempt to kePr, th cv. 1Caoi ou,uuu,uuu human beb are born on this earth and 60 Z or 70,000,000 die. Thi 55 daily birth rate of about 220,000 J a ucaiu raie oi 180..000. The flail increase in population therefore about: 40,000. The total population the globe is estimated at 1,800,000,0 x ai UUIimefnta pede the increase. Far mnre have been the upheavals of na3 ,ine franco-Prussian war killed abo 130,000. in seven months. The deatl roll of the Russo-Japanese reaclel about 200,000. A single earthqnak (1737, in India) has heen estimated to have caused 300,000 deaths. The fe talities of the Messina earthquake lc 1908 cannot have beerr far short c! 100,000. A tidal wave in 1896 AramU 27,000 persons in Japan, causing a! greater loss of life than the wlole war with China in 1894. The Mitii. quake in Japan ib 1703 is said to hare! Kinea zuo.uoo people. The Lisbon earthauake in dpstrnvpd human lives, while 40,000 were Win' the same year in earthquake in Per sia. His "Name." A young spark, notorious for his cot' celt, was boasting in the pr sence of several gentlemen about the conquests which he had gained over the female heart. "Look," said he, "here's a handsome present I had from my last im rata," at the same time handing round a beautiful cigar-case. All admired the article, which tail an indorsement of its quality stamped unon it . "Very nice gift," remarked one j thp nrtmnanv. "I nerceive your m nut on th6i IVTC uau r rasp." "Well, that's queer," answered t. hnasror "T npver noticed u. "Look again," rejoined the canffi one. "The case is aisimuy 'Real calf."' Tfin'f it fiinnv that the. things like to do most are the things we are told we shouldn't go? ir, in?a n-innpv are always 01 the go. Quick Accurate Thinking does much to make difference between and failure. And the food a eats goes a long way deciding tfe dfcence. Grape-Nute .I JJirinllS witn uf -nnceiiu"-. flavor and rich m tne j 1 r chma eie"w'" whole wheat an A ma- barley, is ihf lav- breakfast of succe sauuu and women sstf "There's a RoB for Grape-Nut SOI" "J A s
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