Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-08-19
convrieht by Bobbs-Merrin Co.

They count their forebears real live
people, quite capable OF turning oNei
in their graves.
"Mine are beginning to seem very
real to me. Though l don't even
know their Christian names yet
can judge them by their handlwork,
The men who built Damory Court had
a sense of beauty and of art.
And their share of deviltry, too,
put in the doctor.
II suppose So admitted his j.
AT this distance / can bear even
that. But good or bad, I'm deeply
thankful that they chose virginia
Since I've laid up I've been browsing
! in the library here
"A bit out of date now, reckon,
said the major, but it used to pass
muster Your grandfather was some
thing of a book-worm. He Wrote
history of the family, didn't ne!
Yes. I've found it. The Valiants
of Virginia I'm reading the revolu-
tionarV chapters now. 1t never
seemed real before-it's been only a
slice of impersonal and rather dun
history But the book has made 1t
come alive I'm having the thrill OF
the globe trotter the first time he sees
the Tower of London or the field OF
Waterloo. | see more than the stub
blefield out yonder; ! see big wood
en- stockade with soldiers in ragged
buff and blue guarding it."
The major nodded. "Ah, yes" he
said. THE continental prison camp.
And just over the rise there | can
, see an old court house and the viz
ginia Assembly boiling under the gol-
den tongue-lashing of lean, rawboned
Patrick Henry. | see a messenger
gallop up and see the members
scramble to their saddles-and then,
Tarleton and his red-coats streaming
up, too late"
WELL" commented the doctor de-
liberately, "all 1 have to say is, don't
materialize too much to Mrs. Poly
Clifford when you meet her. Shell
have you lecturing to the Ladies
Church Guild before you know 1t.
She's sailed herself out here already,
/ understand"
"She called the second day. my first
visitor. I've subscribed to the guild.
The doctor chuckled. BLAINE curl
osity That woman's housemaid-silly.
She can spin more street yarn than
any ten in the county. Miss Matte
Sues been here, too, she told me.
All, yes" looking quizzically at the
tray-"I recognize the apple but
ter A pot Just like that goes to the
White House every Christmas there's
a Democrat there. She reminds me of
little drab-gray wren in horn
trimmed spectacles.
She's perfectly dear!" said Valiant,
from her hoops to the cladanthus
bud tied in the corner of her hand
kerchief. She must be very old. She
told me she remembered seeing Jeffer-
son at Monticello
She's growing younger, the doctor
said. sixteen or seventeen years ago
she was very feeble and the Ladies
Guild agreed to support her for life on
consideration that she will her house
and lot to the church, next door. Mrs.
Poly Clifford refers to her now, | be-
lieve. as n dispensation of Providence.
Did she bring the applebutter her
self?''
NO" smiled John Valiant. ''She
sent it afterward by Miss Hickey
Snyder"
The major strolxed his imperial
"Rickeys an institution" he said. Il
hope she gave us all good characters
I'd hate to have Hickey Snyder down
on me. Have you heard her history p
YES, Uncle Jefferson told me.@
Pm glad of that" shot out the doc
tor Now. we needn't have 1t from
Bristow. He's as fond of oratory as
a maltese cat is for milk"
He gave me hint of the majors
powers in that direction, in his ac-
count of Greet Kings trial"
"Humph!'' retorted the doctor
gloomily, that was in his palnly days.
He's fallen off since then. Plenty of
others been here to bore you, l reckon,
though, of course. you don't remember
all the names yet"
Valiant summoned Uncle jefferson.
yah, suh," grinned the old darby
pridefully, ''de folkses mos lam de
face off'n datar oil knockah. Day TO
yistiddy dab waz Mars Quarles en-
Jedge en- Mis- Chalmahs. De jedge
done SEN er streng o silvah perch"
His place is GLADDEN. Hail. the ma
jor said, zone of the finest mansions
round here. A sportsman, sab, and
one of the best pokah hands in the
country
En- yistiddy dah's Mars Chilly
Lusk en- de Pen'letons en- de Byloes en-
Mars Livy Stowe fom Seven Oaks,
en- de Woodrows EN-
"That'll do" said the major. "I'll
just run over the taX-list; it'll be
quicker. There are kindly people here.
sah.'' he went on. but, after all, it's
Il narrow tlICle. w nave our llILlP
pleasures and courtships and scandals
and we are satisfied with them. We're
not gadabouts. Our girls haven't all
| flirted around Europe and they don't
talk of the Pincio and the Champs
Elysees as If they were Capitol Hill
and Madison street in Richmond. But
| if ! may say So sab, / think in Vir-
ginia we get a little closer to life as
God Almighty intended II than people
in some of your big cities.
| "Come, Bristow," interrupted the
doctor tell the truth. This dog
gone borough is as dull as a mud
/ fence sticking with tadpoles, There
| isn't a man in it with soul above
! horse-fiesh."
The Doctors shafts today, however,
| glanced off the majors buckler of
| genalitv like the. Lilliputian arrows
! from Gulliver's eyeglass. Il hope
vou ride. Mr.. Valiant?" the latter
asked genially.
Pm fond of it, said Valiant, ''but
| have no horse as yet
| II was thinking" pursued the
major. of the coming tournament
Tournament"
The doctor cut in. "A ridiculous
I cock -dDOdlp unial, ,ri.yao tho