The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1914-04-18
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fortune ana predicts great trouble
,s cHAP ea;1sR yII.gne,e Jefferson. an Old
nCaAPTER vIu-+shirley.s mother, Mrs.
cambridge. and Major Bristow exchan9o
s sSsminiscences during which It 10 revealed
man named Sassoon, were rivals tor the
l9and OF Mrs. cambridge In her youth.
9assoon and Valiant fought duel on her
account In which the former was killed
CHAPTER Lx-valiant finds Damory
~ ana SdYe tha Nth weeds and creep
pesiected condition. Uncle Jefferson ana
1l1 wife. Aunt Daphne. are engaged g
servants.
CHAPTER x-Va1iant explores his an
SeoGal home. He 10 surprised by fox
99nt1ng party which invades his estats.
party.
Ehe cornerea fox. oossips discuss the adj
a.xedy in which tie elder valiant TOOK
CHAPTER xII-valiaut decides to r.
paoMtate Damory court and make the
papd produce living for him.
CHAPTER xIH-He meets Shirley, who
ICY Deen gathering flowers on tho Valiant
sstats. and reveals his Identity to her.
CHAPTER Nv-veliant saves Shirley
9he Se sns Of the bss a h
1ey sucks the poison from the wound and
CHAPTER Xv-shirley tells her mother
OF the incident and the latter is strangely
proved at bearing that q Valiant is again
living at Damory court.
CHAPTER XvI-valiant learns some
G1 the history Of his family from Doctor
Southall and Major Bristow.
CHAPTER xvII-He learns for the
eecount Of a duel in which Doctor South
ls1 and Major Bristow acted az his faith
sers seconds.
!. CHAPTER xv1I-valiant and Shirley
become good friends. Mrs. Dandridse
Ffaints when she first meets Valiant.
CHAPTER xIx-valiant works WON
Pc has fortune in old walnut trees.
CHAPTER xx-with the advice and
assistance Of the major and Shirley, VAL
ore the gardens to what they
CHAPTER xXI-The yearly tourna-
E 1,.as, e survival Of the tousting Of teudal
CHAPTER xx1I-At the last moment
[yanant takes the place Of one Of the
ella, CHAPTER xxI11-He wins and chooses
the dismay Of Katharine Fargo, a former
gweetheart. who is visiting in Virginia,
f; CHAPTER xx1v-The tournament ball
|at Damory court draws the elite Of the
countryside. Shirley is crowned by Val
liant az queen Of beauty.
CHAPTER xxv-valiant tells Shirley
lof his love and they become en2a3Ad-
CHAPTER XXVI-Katharine Fargo IL
deeply Inundated at reading in the facea
Hf Valiant and Shirley the evidence Of
tplighted troth.
CHAPTER XXvII-Katharine FARGO.
determining not to give up Valiant without
irible It would be for the woman ian" who Who
caused the duel to meet Valiant. who
looks SO much like his father.
:, CHAPTER xxv11I-shirley, uncertain.
but feeling that her mother was in love
with the victim Of Valiant's pistol, breaks
the engagement.
- w=s ea.s=o0s ualK-savo 1uE suu
etarlight-when he saw the shadow OF
the square ivy-grown spire rearing
stark from it's huddle of foliage
against the blurred background. He
pushed open the gate and went slowly
up the worn path toward the great
iron-bound and hooded door. Under
the larches on either hand the outlines
of the gravestones doomed pallidly,
and from the bell tower came the faint
tnquiring cry Of q small owl. Valiant
stood looking about him. What could
he learn here? He read no answer to
the riddle. A little to one side of the
path something showed snow-like on
the ground, and he went toward 1t,
Nearer, he saw that it was a mass of
flowers, staring up Whitley from the
semi bscurity from within an iron
railing. He bent over, suddenly noting
the scent; it was cape jessamine.
With the curious sensation of almost
prescience plucking at him, he took a
box of vestas from his pocket and
struck one. It fared up Illuminating
a fiat granite slab in which was cut
3 name and inscription:
EDWARD sAssooN.
'Forgive US our trespasses."
The silence seemed to crash to earth
6ke Q great loodng-glass and. shtYAr
into million pieces. The wax dropped
from his fingers and in the superven.
ing darkness numb fright gripped
him by the throat. Shirley had laid
these there, on the grave Of the man
his father had killed-the cape jessa-
mines she had wanted that day, for
her mother! He understood.
It came to him at last that there
was chill mist cropping among the
trees and that he was very cold.
He went back along the Red Road
stumblingly. Was this to be the end
OF the dream, which he had fancied
would last forever7 Could it be that
she was not for him? Was it no hoary
lie that the sins Of the fathers were
visited upon the third and fourth gem
eration7
/: When he re-entered the library tho
candle was guttering in the burned
wings Of . nightmoth. The place
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