Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1914-03-27
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SYNOPSIS.
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Continued from last week
SYNOPSIS.
CHAPTER I-Johu Valiant, a rich So
ciety f~avorite. suddenly discovers that the
Valiant corporation. which his father
founded and which was the principal
source of his wealth. has failed
CHAPTER HE voluntarily turns
over his private fortune to the receiver
Tor the corporation.
CHAPTER III-His entire remaining
possessions consist of an old motor car,
. white bull dog and Damory court a
neglected estate In Virginia
CHAPTER Iv-He learns that this es-
tate came into the family by royal grant
and has been in the possession Of the
Vahants ever since.
CHAPTER Won the way to Damory
court he meets Shirley cambridge. an au-
b~urn-haired beauty. and decides that he
Ia going to like Virginia immensely.
CHAPTER Wan old negro tells 6hir-
zey's fortune and predicts great trouble
Tor her on account OF a man.
CHAPTER vII-Uncle Jefferson, an old
negro. takes Valiant to Damory court.
CHAPTER vIH-Shirley's mother, Mrs.
Dandridge. and Major Bristow exchange
"Reminiscences during which it is revealed
that the major, Valiant's father, and q
man named Sassoon, were rivals for the
hand of Mrs. cambridge in her youth.
sassoon and Valiant fought a duel on her
account in which the former was killed.
CHAPTER Ix-valiant inds Damory
court overgrown with weeds and creep
ers and the buildings in a very much
neglected condition. Uncle Jefferson and
his wife. Aunt Daphne. are engaged as
servants.
CHAPTER X-va1iant explores his an
cestral home. He Is surprised by a fox
hunting party which invades his estate.
He recognizes Shirley at the head of the
party.
pulled out the amber pins and drew
her wonderful hair on either side of
her face, looking out at her reflection
like a mermaid from between the rip
ping waves of a moon-golden sea.
At last she turned, and seating her
self at the desk, took from it a diary.
She scanned the pages at random, her
eyes catching lines here and there.
"A good u today. Betty and Judge
Chalmers and the Pendleton boys. My
fourth brush this season." A frown
drew itself across her brows, and she
turned the page. One of the hounds
0AOhO Il AC61 III 1 Save HILL "
Hickey" = = Chilly Lusk to
dinner today, after swimming the Lor.
ing Rapid"
She bit her lip, turned abruptly to
the new page and took up her pen.
This morning a twelve-mile run to
Damory Court" she wrote. This.
afternoon. went for cape jessamines."
There she paused. The happenings
and sensations of that day would not
be recorded. They were unwritable.
She laid down her pen and put her
forehead on her clasped hands. How
empty and inane these entries seemed
beside this rich and eventful twenty
four hours just passed! What had
she been doing a ear ago today? she
wondered. The lower drawer of the
desk held a number of slim diaries
like the one before her. She pulled it
out, took up the last-year's volume
and opened it.
why" she said in surprise, 81 got
jessamine for mother this very same
day last year," she pondered frown-
ing, then reached for a third and a
fourth. From these she looked up,
startled. That date in her mothers
calendar called for cape jessamines.
What was the fourteenth of May to
her?
She bent a slow troubled gaze about
her. The room had been hers as a
child. She seemed suddenly back in
that childhood, with her mother bend
ing owe her pillow and fondling her
rebellious hair. When the wind cried
for loneliness out in the dark she had
sung old songs to her. Sad songsl
Even in those p%inafore years Shirley
had vaguely realized that pain lay be-
hind the brave gay mask. Was there
something = some event - that had
caused that dull-colored life and u
fulilment? And was today, perhaps,
its anniversary?
.
John Valiant sat propped up on the
library couch, an open magazine I'M
needed on his knee. The reading
stand beside him was a litter of let
tiers ard papers. The bow-window
was open and the honeysuckle breeze
blew about him, lifting his hair and
ruffling the leaves of the papers,. In
the garden three darkies were labor
ing. under the supervision of Uncle
Jefferson. The ~unsightly weeds and
lichen were gone from the ~graveled
paths, and from the fountain pool,
whose shaft now spouted a slender
spray shivered by the breeze into a
million diamonds. which fell back into
the pool with a ~tintinabulant trickle
and drip.
The master of Damory Court closed
the magazine with a sigh. IF l could
only do 1t all at oncei" he muttered.
aft takes auch a ~conf0unded time