Show 1 E. E The h V I 1 The Co Mer Bobba-Mer- i e a ananis Ian ts ra m mr r f T f By HALLf t Mr ERMINIE In Post Po RIVES Wheeler Weer of 0 ol f Virgi V Vf V mm inia i I READ TH THIS THIS- OF ilIA VE APPEARED BEFORE ne well known firm of ot Valiant Co fall ku The vl vice president John Valiant sOCiety man nan and son DOn n of ot the founder rounder of ot ibe Fhe arm tinn Is 18 unjustly held responsible for forthe forthe the he of ot the conniving president and aDd manager and other members of or the thenn arm nn who worked far their own rather Jhan loan the company's Interest At the lettl le- le 41 11 proceedings Kate Fargo FarKO of or Virginia believes him Innocent as ae does her uncle There here bere it I. I aleo also that Valiant sever vever rec received Ived a cent of ot salary as U vice president of ot the corporation and never of ot the chicanery of or the others othera John Valiant lands hands o over or r to the tho receiver In securities hIs Ills entire private fortune to save cave the corporation He reIgns re- re Igns cigne its Ita vice Ice p presidency nc and starts living liv liv- re j ing fn the simple II life after arter payIng all alt That left lett him 2800 an old automobile and md clothes He had followed his ha fathers father's example of ot business honor I Valiant aIlant found from le legal papers he waa was a Virginia that he was fallen heir hell to Damory Court the family estate In tn Sir Sir- He decided to take taie possession Accordingly I h he went South to Virginia see lee ee his estate and meets Shirley Dandridge Dan- Dan dridge Judge to Chalmers Shirley and others other visited Damory Court Mad Mod Anthony an old negro tells Shirleys Shirley's fortune lots fortune lots lotsof of ot trouble ahead and marriage with a aman aman aman man from the North who will live UTe at Damory Court CJohn Valiant Is la taken with his hili trunk tram from his broken down toward I D Damory Court b by an ol old oh negro of ot the II I rid e estate Uncle Jefferson who praises Shirley Dandridge In terns r rjohn John Valiant unlocks the front door of Damory Court and enters the tho long Ion abandoned abandoned aban aban- toned residence tHe examines th the house houe closely and then roe roes JOe to sleep in his old new home for tor the Rr list t time He breaks up a hunt next day daT by the he fox lox t In Damory Court ourt sven ven though Shirley e Dandridge sees cees him lit the hunted animal Into the tho house be- be ore rore the hounds reach It it The village e Is much stirred over oung arrival of ot the old oki lu luM luel 1 disturb the village c as Damory Court Courts 3 s r by this Northerner iHo jHo turns farmer and starts to work york his state into good god order lie IIo helps Shirley jt Ut of ot a bramble that had caught her tHo Ui Hn hears bears more about the duel He tHc cares S Shirley he from a is 18 bitten himself an and sho she Inurn in inurn urn sires saves his life lite NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY STOBY r Lot me mcl I Oh how ho cru cruel crul l you are arel m my fault But for me it would ever e have haveNe have have- Ne c T J would t ra rather rather- ther- ther me m. t Oh if you rou died I With all the tho tho force of her trong oung body borl rho gho wrenched awa away his pro pro- hands bands A thirst and a sickish celing eling were upon him a curious us irre irre- nOli sible giddiness and her hair which hat at struggle had bad brought in tumbled lasses about her shoulders seemed to ave YC little flames running all over o crit it n Us foot had entirely lost its feeling was a strange weakness in n his bis nibs imbs Tic felt it with ith a cool iu thriving sur null it be he death teath stealing over oyer J v- v w him really him really death in hI his silly inglorious guise from front a miserable crawling rep rep- tilot Death when he ho has just begun began a life lifo that so 50 worth living Jiving A sense of unreality came He lie ya was as asleep The Tho failure the tho investigation Virginia Virginia all nia all was a dream Presently he ho would wake in hits his hi bachelor quarters quarters tore to find his man setting netting out his bis coffee and grapefruit Ho He settled back and closed his nis eyes eves Moments of f half consciousness or consciousness jumbled w with l strange imaginings im im- un- un followed At times he felt the pressure upon the wounded foot was sensible a of tho the suction of the young Joung mouth striving str ng desperately to draw raw tho the poison from the wound From time to time he was cons conscious iou ot of ota ofa a a. white desperate face haloed with hair tnt was aB a n mist of woven sparkles At times timos he thought himself a recumbent stone in in a wood and her a n great tall taU golden headed flower lying broken at his feet Again ho he was waR a n granite anito boulder and nd she sho a n vine ine with yellow renow leaves winding and clinging dinging about him Then a n blank blank blank-a a sense of movement and of troublous disturbance of insistent insist On ont ent voices that called to him and in inquisitive in- in bands hands that plucked at him I and then voices voice growing rovin distant agair aRai and hands bands falling away and at last last last- silence CHAPTER After the tho Storm Inky clouds were wore gathering therin over the sunlight ht when hen Shirley came from Damory Dam Darn ory Court ourt along tho the narrow under the hen hemlocks and the tho way was striped with blue black shadows and filled with sighing hing noiS noises s She walked warily t halting often at some Bome leaf leafy rustle to catch a quick breath of dread As she ho approached tho the tree roots where the cape lay she had to force her hor feet forward by b. sheer effort effort effort ef ef- ef- ef fort of will At a a. little distance from them she broke broko a stick and with it managed to dra drag the bunch to her turnIng turning turn turn- In ing her eyes with a n. shiver from the trampled spot near by bv She picked up the flowers flowers and treading with caution retraced her steps to the wider path Sho She stopped into the red road at atlen len length h in la the teeth of a a. thunderstorm which had bad arisen almost without warning warning warn warn- in ing to break with tho the passionate inte intensity sity ity it- of electric storms in the South Tho The green golden fields were now a gray gray- seethe of rain and the farther peaks lifted like hU hugo huge o tumbled masses of onyx against a sky stippled with wan yellow vellow and T vicious CIOUS violet lolet The wind d leaped and ana roared and RW swished hed through tho the weeping foliage o lashing the dull chill red puddles swirling leaves lacs and twi twigs from the tho hedges eg and seeming to bo be intent on drag g dragging nc- nc her hervery very garments g-arment from her as t he she ran was no shelter but oven evon had bad there thero been she he would not havo have sought ht it it The turbulence of nature around her matched in a 3 w-a w way wa her het ov overstrained feeling and she bhe welcomed the fierce bulge e of the tho wind nd in tho the up blowing whorls of her hair baiT and the drenching wetness of tho the rain At length out o or of breath sho she crouched down own under a catalpa tree watching the fangs of lightning knot themselves against the too baleful gray way yellow dimness making sudden Budden floren of unbearable bri brightness a against t which twi twigs s etched themselves with the unrelieved sharpness of bl black ck paper silhouettes She tried to fix her mind on near thiu things s tho the bonding banding a. a 06 the scurrying scurrying scurry scurry- iD ing red runnels and napping flapping shrubbery but her thou thoughts wilfully escaped the tether turning again aJain and again to the events of ar the I last st two hours houra She pictured pictured pic plc- Unc Jeffersons Jefferson's eyes rollin rolling up in ridiculous alarm his winnowing arm rm lashing his indignant mule in his flight for the doctor At the mental picture she sho choked with hysterical laughter then cringed suddenly a against the tho sopping bark She he saw again tho the doctors doctor's gaze guze lift tift from his first examination of tho the tin tiny puncture ture turC to send a swift glance glanco straight ht at her before he bent his is great eat body bod to carI carry tho the unconscious man to the house Again a fit of shuddering swept over ocr hor her Then all at once tears came strangling lin sobs that bent and swayed her Tl It was the discharge o of the Ledan jar tho the loosing of the tenso tense bowstring and it brought relief After a time she Iho grew quieter Ho He o would perhaps still bo to l lying ng on the couch in the tho dull colored library under the one eyed portrait his hair waving crisply against tho the white blanket his hands bands moving mo restlessly his lips mut mut- Her imagination followed Aunt shuffling to fetch letch this and that Ila nagged cl by the doctors doctor's sharp adin ad ad- in monitions S. S He would got Jot well The thought that perhaps she had saved aved his life gave Slave h her hera r ra a thrill that ran over her whole body And until yesterday she had never nevor neverseen seen him himl She Site kneeled in the blurred half light ht pushing her hor wet hair back from irom her forehead and smiling up in inthe inthe the rain that still foIl fell fast In a few moments she he rose roso and went on The lightning came camo now at longer longor and more irregular intervals and the thunder pealed less heavily The wan yellow murk was liftin lifting Here and there thore a soaked sunbeam peered half frightened through the tho racked Tacked mist wreaths as thou though h to smell tho the over oyer oversweet oversweet sweet fragrance of the Wet Wot jessamine in her arms At tho the gate AAte of the tho rosewood lane stood a 8 mailbox on a cedar post and she paused to fish out a a. draggled Richmond ne newspaper As she he thrust it under her hor arm her ey eye caught a word of a a. headline head head- line With a II flush she tore it from its soggy wrapper the tho wetted fiber tiber partIng partIng parting part part- ing in her hor eager fingers and resting her foot on the lower rail rail ral of the gate spread it open on her hor knee She stood stock still until gho h had read tho the whole hole It was the story of John Valiant's sacrifice laer of his nUs private fortune to save savo the ruin of the involved iu corporation Its effect upon her was a a. shock She felt her hor throat swell as 88 she read then sho she was chilled by the memory of what she sho had said to him c What What has hal be he bee beever e ever eer er done except play polo and furnish spicy paragraphs for tho the society columns col col- 1 o 0 What a a. beast I was va vas 1 she sll said d addressing tho tim wet wot hedge Ho lIo had hai had just done that splendid thing It was because became of that that he was little better better bet bet- ter than a beggar and I said those horrible things thing'S Again she bent h b her r reves eves eyes rereading the tho sentences Took h his s detractors b by surprise h had d just JURt sustained a no grilling at th the thc hands bands of the sta states state's tos to's examiner which might ht well havo have dried at their fount fo the sprin springs of sympathy 1 She he crushed d up the paper In her hand and rested her Iter forehead on the tho wet wot rail fail Idiotically rich rich rich-a a vandal vandal vandal-a a useless purse proud She had called him all that She o could still see the paleness paleness pale palo I ness neBS of his look as 38 she had said it Shirley Shirlev overexcited as she still wa was felt the sobs returning These however how how- over ever did not last long and in a a. moment moment mo mo- ment meat she ebe found herself smiling again Though sho had bail hurt urt him she had saved him too tool When she whispered this over to herself it still thrilled iid od startled her She folded tho the paper and hastened on under the cherry trees the negro maid was waiting waiting wait wait- ing lug anxiously on tho the porch She was thin to with a face faco as 8 brown as ne a a. tobacco loaf leaf restless black eyes and wool neatly pinned and sot off b by byan byan an amber comb called Emmaline Ise boon beon fo fe yo wid all that light nin ala r arin Do yo yo when yo run up en en jump plumb plumb- down in th th middle of yore oro baid baiden en up dat little gol gal haid baid en I 1 th vh th noise th th J tell yo was good goodman goodman goodman man rollin his ruin rain b It Sho laughed noiselessly holding holdin both hands to br her lIer thin sides Yo Yo grow d up now so 10 yo ain am o 0 this side th bad th bad place Yo got got- ot th jessmine jess' jess mine minet Give em am to Em line lino Shell She'll fix em eta all nice thee jes' jes how Mis' Mis Judith like c All All right Emmaline replied Shirby Shir Shir- ley by And Ill I'll go and drew dress Has lias mother missed mc mo met II Nom No m Sho ain am Ie lof huh room this whole blessed day dar No yo barths barth's all r ren ready all jy ail th tb hot en I 1 Isell Isen sell sen Ranston with that th fus' fus thing y Yo 0 hurry en pool peel thorn them wet close cloge off yo so f or yo yo have havo one o 0 them digested di di- chills Her young rOUD mistress s flown and the tho hot water dispatched tho the negro woman WO spread a cloth on the floor and began to cut and dress the tho long stalks of tho the flowers This done dono she fetched ed bowls and vases and set the pearly whito white clumps hero rind and there there there-on on tho the lining dining room sideboard the time hall ball mantel and li in till room till the the desk of the of-the the living room delicate fra fragrance rance filJe filled the house bouse quite vanishing the rose scent from the tho arbors arbor When all was dono done she stood in the doorway with arms akimbo turning about to survey survoy her han handiwork Mis Judith be picas picas' with that she said nodding her hor woolly lead Dead ead with vigor why wh sho she want them thin things B All t th res' res o 0 th time timo roses roses rose but bout a a. yeah seems like she sho jes' jes got ot to ha have havo vo them thorn en cn othin else She Sho swept up the scattered twigs and leaves and and going into nto the tho dining room began to lay the table lable for dinner This room was square and lna low with a a- carved caned console and antl straight backed hacked chairs thinly cushioned in faded blue match tho the china The e to olive gray ray walls were brightened with tho the soft dull gold of an n told old mirror au and l picture frames from which dim dini l faces look looked d pl placidly eidly down Th The UI 6 blin splendor splendor dor of tb tho racked sunset fell through old fashioned leaded window windowpanes panes canes tin n the tha white whito figures on tho the mantelpiece To bo be continued tomorrow |