Show fri 0 in I 1 virginia B hahie erminie rives rive illustrated by lewis sted 1914 bj dobbs bobb urdu co you lou an so eo many lomeii aomen in one when I 1 listened to our harp playing I 1 could hardly bellevo belle v it was the same you I 1 saw galloping across acrons tho the fields that looming now you eire are a different woman from both ot of those As she eho looked at him her lips curled cornerwise corner wise wine her foot slipped on the cadge of the turf she swayed toward him and ho he caught her feel ing for a instant the adorable ne urness of hei bey body it ridged all hll his skin liln with a creeping delight she bhe recovered her tooting footing with an exclamation and turned back somewhat ab raptly to the porch whore she seated heated on the step drabing draw in her filmy shirt aside aalde to make a place tor for him they a was waa a moment of silence which im ho broke that exquisite serenade renade oe you were pla liln ing gl I 1 you know the words of course I 1 jhc thc tho uro are more lovely it if possible I 1 than the score do iou ou care for tori poetry ive iva always loved it lie he said ive been reading some lately a little old hook book I 1 found at damory court it B s Luci luclle lei do you know it itt yea its my mothers tavoi ite lie drew it from his hie pocket see ive got it here it a marked too tie he it to close clone it instantly Inet antly not hot however lio wever before she ahe had bad put out her hand bund and laid it palin town down on the page that rosel romel oh ob lot we roe have it if never be proto nUd tt d I 1 look here i when I 1 put it between the haves caves I 1 did so do at i aldoin I 1 fee till now that I 1 had opened it at a marked passage sage let us lead it she abe said eald ile he leaned and hold held the leaf to td tho the light from the doorway and the two I 1 heads bent toge together over the text A bound fell behind them and both turned A slight figure in a soft boft gray gown with old lace at the throat in the doorway behind them john valiant sprang to his hie feet ali ah shirley I 1 thought I 1 heard voices Is ie that ou chilly its ite not mr lusk mother said ald its ita our new neighbor mr valiant As AH he bent over the frail hand murmuring the conventional words that are arc believed to require mrs dandridge bank into a deep cushioned chair wont you nit lt down I 1 she bhe said bald ile he noticed that she did not look directly at him and that her face was as pallid BB as her hair I 1 thank you said fluid john valiant and resumed his hi a place on the lower step shirley who had again seated herself suddenly laughed and pointed to the book which lay between them I 1 imagine what we are doing deare dear estl wo we w aare ere reading luellal Luc Luel llo lol together she saw the other wince lace and the deep dark ees COB lifted BB as it if under corn com pu lalon from the book cover to valiant a face lie he was startled by shir leys cry and the sudden limp ancon clous settling buck back into the cushions cushion idt cf the fragile form CHAPTER night A quicker baetzo was stirring an aa john vail tnt int went back baal along the red lloa I 1 lie ho had waited in the garden at Ito rosewood sewood till shirley aided by Linin allne and with Rat Rans inton loii a anxious face hovering hoyer hig in the background having baying d those gantle offices which a lonians wom won autt ians fainting spell ro re aulita had lome coine to reas mire him and to say bay bood night As AB lie he off lila his coat anut in the tha bid bedroom lie he had clenen choden for his own bo be felt tho the hard coi coina ut r of tho th 1 luclle in thu tho pocket coclet and drawing it out laid it ou on the table h b the bedside lie ho lemed to attl abila the t tingle I 1 of his bla check where a curling strand of her coppa copeli N hair had sl BI rung again bit it vim tier her licad hid beut bent bilde his on to iad and the marked kincs mian hn haid lie he sat pat an hout lioci in the lanzi a dr drowsing emsing yown thrown onor mer his ln daliah to lecie ute that evening tin tall to rem inbar lid hey ever u word ord and luok and I 1 or a arlath her taco face would flush stil suddenly denly before lm im like n it ihn i e I 1 ehlig hit g then it would A fade tind and elude him ough ho he clenched its hla hinds hinda on an the exis or of MB his chair in the fleice mental ort ori to recall it onh the intense blu of her e aea tho tan sweep of her hair thebo and tho the touch of her vi consciousness of her aarm and alvid avid frog fragrance tance remained to wrap rap all lis ll 11 senses in a mitt woven oven of gold and tire 0 0 10 shirley meanwhile had sat some borne thac bebide her mother 0 bed leaning truro frum a chintz co covered ered chair her anxiety onla partially allaead ty ry leas leai now and then stoop hig to lay her cheek against the delicate amrai rai in its lacy sleeve elleve or to pass her hand lovingly up and do don n its outline noting with it recai of ten dr neBB the transparency of the skin with its violet veining valuing and the had awil ben emili the closed ekes emma line moving on oft toft t forsted shod feet about the din boom at length bad whispered 7 CIA shirley who hid had again seated boated her self elf suddenly Sud lenly laughed and point ed ad to the book you go tuh tub bald honey I 1 tay stay with ills judith till she go tuh tub sleep yes yea go shirle 1 sald said her mother I 1 am prilla at all cant I 1 even faint when I 1 feel fed like it without calling out the fire brigade you 11 daml damici ey me to loath death and heaven known know r dont need it you w ont let apt me telephone tor for doctor southall I 1 Ceita certainly not and you are sure it was nothing int the roses why what ahat elte die should it be said her mother almost peevishly I 1 must really have the arbors iii horn thinned out on heavy eavy nights its overpowering go 00 along now and well talk about it to tomorrow tomorio morro I 1 pan can ring if I 1 vi want ant anat anything hl ng 11 to in her bar room shirley undressed thoughtfully 1 hero was between her and her mother a fine tenuous bond of sympathy and feeling as an rare pert peri hops as it was as doely sho she could not rini imber vhf n the other had bad not been it 11 benil linal lil and her earliest childhood recollections recollect lona were punctuated abed with the tap or of the little can cam tonight H buddin indisposition had bad shocked hooked and disturbed her to taint faint at a rush niah of perfume seemed to sug augi gest a growing weakness that was waft alarming To tomorrow morroN she told herself heraelto hera elt she ah would send ranston w ith a of the roses to the hospital at charlottesville she slipped on a pint pink shell shaded dressing eming gown of slinky silk with a riot of azaleas scattered in the weave and then dragging her chair before the open window drew aside the light curtain and began to brush her hair all at once her gazo gaze fell upon the floor and she shrank back backward waid d from a twisting thread like thing whose hose bright saffron affron yellow glowed sharply against the lark dark caipen she saw in on an in stant however that it wits was nothing more dangerous than a fragment of at lovevine love vine vino from the garden which had clung to her skirt she picked up the tiny mass masa of tendrils and with mi a slow blow smile grolle tossed it over her right is choul boulder dor through the window it it takes root she ehe maid bald alou alon 1 my sweet heart loves lovea me m she loaned leaned from the mill bill to peer down into the misty garden but could not follow its fall fail long ago her visitor would have reached damory court she had a vision of him wandering candle in hand through the empty echoing rooms roomi looking at the voiceless por par nialta on the walls walla thinking perhaps 0 of f bin father of the fatal duel of which he had never kiiru onu she liked the way he had spoken of his bin eatherl As ae she ehe leaned out of the stillness there came to her ear a mellow sound it was the bell of the courthouse la in the village she counted the strokes tailing falling clearly or faintly as aa the sluggish breeze bi beze ebbed or swelled it was eleven she drew back dropped the curtain to shut abut out the wan glimmer and in the iho dat darkness daik kness nesB crept into the soft nott bed re OB lf if into a hiding place 0 0 0 A warm warin situ aua mud and an air mildly mellow A faint kold gold shadowed mist milt over the valley and it soft allne hare blend ing the rounded outlines ot of the hills hill through ah rough the sh scrubber rubber at damory court it a cardinal darted like a crim son on shuttle to rock impudently from ft a fl earing limb und and heie and there on the blulah ivory sky motionless as an a pasted panted viator hung bung a hai hawk from time to time one of those cavere wavered d and slanted swiftly down to climb once more in a huge hue spit at to its high tower 0 of f bk perhaps it xon wondered dered as its ita tele eyo eye looked doa down a that had bad been its ita chouest covert that dishek cled clad tangle where the birds held perpetual carneal ciu the weasel lurked in the and the rabbit lined his windfall Ind fall now the was wa gone A pergola glistening white now upheld the dunaway vines tines making a sickle like path from the upper ter braot rn to the leke in the barn loft the pitons still quarrelled quarrel led over their new cotes of fresu pine and under tinder a clump of locust trees at a little distance from the house a half dozen dolls cablas cabins on oil stilts stood waiting the honey stor age of the black end and gold old bens bees there were new denizens also these had arrived in a dozen alne tanks and willow willoa hampers to the amaze of a sleepy express clerk at the railroad station tio tv 0 aana sw ana now sailed nailed majestically over the lib ponds of the lake along its gravel rim and a pair ot of cronie bronze colored ducks addled and preened pre ened and its placid surface rippled and broke to the sluggish backs of goldfish and the one of red japanese cary carp the house itself wore ora another air it ita look of had bad largely vanished the soft gray tone of ago age remained but thi bleakness and tor for lor lorn neBB were gone there was about all now a warmth and genial bearing that hinted at mellowed beauty fire are light and cheerful olcen within valiant hamed a long sigh of matia faction as lie he stood in the sunlight gas ga ing at the results of his labors labor he was waa not now the flippant boulevard ier to whom money was the nine bine qua nou of existence he had learned a mayor eign lesson one gained not through the push and fight of crowds but la in the simple peace of a countryside bi the clamor of gold and the complin problems of a competitive ex as that he had bad inherited a need of activity of achievement that he had been born to do chum he bald to the dog rolling on his hia back io in the grass what do you think of it all anyway he reach reached d down seized a haid leg and whirling him around like a teto tUB sent nent him flying into the bushes whence chum launched agala again upon him like a catapult he caught the tha white shoulders aud held him viselike vise like I 1 just about right ch but wait we get those there ram leral blust and to think 11 he ha continued whim releasing him that I 1 might have gone on one of the abe littleneck little neck clam crowd ive al aado trained with at the same name old pace till the ver mouth cocktail palm beach career got ft a double nelson on me and the umpire counted me out at this moment I 1 bouldin wouldn t swap this thin old house and land and the sunshine and that gaarden gy arden and unc Jeff Jef forson orBon and aunt and the chickens and the birds and all the rest of it for a mile of millionaires lion aires alres row how lie ho went into the house home and to the library the breeze through the wide flung bow window was wan fluttering the papers on the desk and the map on the wall was flapping lAp pint sidewise he went to straighten it and then saw what hat he had not noticed before that it ft covered something that had been let into the plaster ile he swung it aside stud and made an exclamation lie he was wae looking at a square promising prom leing wall safe with a round figured disk of white metal on lis it face lie he knelt before it and tried its knob after a moment it turned easily but bilt 7 A tried the numbers number carefully first fin right then than left 17 1728 28 44 4 0 the heavy door opened the resolute teel steel door would not opals kopea i though he tried every that came into his mind no use me he said disgustedly one must hato oar the right numbers then he be lifted its his fretted frame and smote mote his grimy hands handa together con can found it he said with a short laugh 1 I lere here I 1 am a bankrupt with all this outfit clear to the very finger bowl handed to me on a silver tray and im mad as a B scat ecat because I 1 cant open the to first locked thing I 1 find audi I 1 lie he ran upstairs and donned a rough corduroy jacket and high leather leg were going to climb the hill today chum he announced lad aad no more moccasins need apply in the lower hall bo however weNer he be suddenly stopped stock block still the slip blip of paper that was vias in the rhina chins dog he exclaimed what a chump I 1 am not to havo have thought of he found it in its pigeonhole and kneeling down before the safe tried the numbers number carefully first right then left 17 28 29 94 0 the henvy heavy door opened I 1 1 I as right I 1 he exulted it ita a the tae plate he drew it out piece by bv piece each bach was bagged in darkried dark red canton flannel lie he broke the tape of one bag and exposed a great silver pitcher tarnished purple blue like it a ravena wing then a teas ten service orvice each piece large and small email was marked with the greyhound rampant and the motto and to think he said ald that my great great grandfather burled buried you toll bilth ith his own bands under the stables whon ban tarleton tarletone Tarle tons s raiders swept the val vali i ley before the surrender at Tork towo only wait till aunt daphne sets gets ou polished up and on the sideboard arill youre the one thing the place bas ha needed I 1 I 1 0 with the dog for comrade he traversed the garden and plunged across the valle below humming as he went the place was pathless and overt over grown with paw paw bushes and seats tras great trees tree stood so thickly in places as to make a vw t lusht and the sunnier spots were masses classes of pink laurel poison ivy purple rho doden do dendron drou and wine red tendrils tend rila of in ter braided briers this was the ford for tat land of at whose possibilities ho h had thought in the heart of the ivas he came upon at a great limb that had been wren wrenched chod off by storm the broken was of a deep rich brown shading to blick he broke off his song napped it a twig and smelled melted it 11 its ita sharp acrid odor was unmistakably lie he paa denly remembered the walnut tree at a basswood Be wood aj what shirley had said i 1 I know a CIA who had bad two in hot h yard and she he went to europe arap on 00 them he looked about him as far as ho bould see the trees reared hardy and perfect ua um touched for a generation lie he selected one of medium elie blae and pulling a creeper measured its it circumference cum ference and this measure with his bis eye made mad a penciled calculation on the back of an envelope great he sold bald jubilantly to the dog dof that would cut enough to wainscot the damory court library mid and build twenty lie he tat sat down on a boulder bi breathless eat bleir his bis eyes eye sparkling chehad he had thought himself almost a beggar and here in his hand was waa a small email fort fortune unel talk about eg eoga e g cement ament rings he muttered why a dozen of these ought to buy a whole tharal at length 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