Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1914-05-22

Continued from last week
SYNOPSIS.
CHAPTER I-John Valiant. a rich So
eiety f~avorite. suddenly discovers that the
founded and which was the principal
source OF his wealth. has failed.
CHAPTER u-Hs voluntarily turns
Pver his private fortune to the receiver
knr Tho corporation.
possessions consist Of an old motor car,
neglected estate In virginia
CHAPTER Iv-He learns that this e.
Rate came into the family by royal grant
and has been In thu possession Of the
FValiants ever sinceL
CHAPTER Won me way to Damory
fourt he meets Shirley cambridge. an au-
zo;ns % n peag vy..t and decides mradnss that be
CHAPTER Wan old negro tells 5hir-
esy'g fortune and predicts great trouble
Tor her on account of o man.
negro. takes Valiant to Damory court.
CHAPTER vIn-shir1ey.s mother, Mrs.
Feminiscences during which It is revealed
khat the major. Valiant's father. and q
Enan named Sassoon, were rivals for the
nsnd Of M Mrs. Dandridgs In her 20 youth Sa.
account In which the former was killed
CHAPTER x-varant finds 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
CHAPTER x-vaIiant explores his an
cestral home. He is surprised by a fox
He recognizes Shirley at the head OF the
party.
CHAPTER xI-He gives sanctuary to
the cornered fox. Gossips discuss the ad-
vent OF the new owner and recall the
tragedy in which the elder Valiant took
part.
CHAPTER xII-vaiiant decides to re-
nabiiitate Damory court and make the
land produce a living for him.
CHAPTER xnr-He meets Shirley. who
mas been gathering flowers on the Valiant
estate. and reveals his Identity to her.
CHAPTER xTy-valiant saves Shirley
from the bite of a snake. which bites him.
knowing the dead1iness of the bite, Shir-
ley sucks the poison from the wound and
saves his life.
CHAPTER xv-Shirley tells her mother
of the Incident and the latter is strangely
moved at hearing that q Valiant Is again
living at Damory court
CHAPTER xvI-valiant learns some
of the history of his family from Doctor
Southall and Major Bristow.
dirst time that his father left Virginia on
account OF a duel In which Doctor South
all and Major Bristow acted as his faith
erss seconds.
CHAPTER xvIII-valiant and Shirley
become good friends. Mrs. cambridge
1aints when she first meets Valiant.
CHAPTER xIx-valiant works won
ders In the old place. He discovers that
ne has a fortune in old walnut trees.
CHAPTER xx-with the advice and
assistance of the major and Shirley, VAL
tant restores the gardens to what they
were In his fathers time.
CHAPTER xxI-The yearly tourna-
sment. a survival of the jousting of feudal
times. Is to be held at Damory court.
CHAPTER xxII-At the last moment
Valiant takes the place Of one Of the
knights, who Is sick. and enters the lists.
Shirley cambridge as queen of beauty to
the dismay of Katharine Fargo, a former
sweetheart. who Is visiting in Virginia.
CHAPTER xxIv-The tournament ball
at Damory court draws the elite of the
countryside. Shirley is crowned by Val
n as queen of beauty.
CHAPTER xxv-valiant tells Shirley
aof his love and they become engaged.
CHAPTER xxvI-Katharine Fargo is
deeply Inundated at reading in the faces
of Valiant and Shirley the evidence Of
plighted troth.
CHAPTER Observation-Disclosures Fargo,
determining not to give up Valiant without
rible 1t would be for the woman who
caused the due to meet Valiant, who
looks so much like his father.
years slumber to a renewed prime.
Only he had lived on meanwhile and
now was old. He sighed.
How gay the place had been the
night of the ball, with the lights and
roses and music! He remembered
what the doctor had said about Val
liant and Shirley-it had lain ever
since In his mind, a painful specula-
ton The recollection reused another
thought from which he shrank. He
stirred ~uneasily. What on earth kept
that old darby SO long over that julep?
A slight noise made him urn his
head But nothing moved. Only a
creak Of the woodwork, he thought,
and settled back again in his chair.
1t was, in fact, a stealthy football
he had heard. It came from the
library, where a shabby figure
crouched, listening, in the corner be-
hind the tapestried screen-a man
evilly clad, with a SCARED cheek.
It had been with no good purpose
that Greet King had logged the major
these last few days. He Rugged a hot
hatred grown to white heat in six
years Of prison labor within bleak
walls at the clicking shoe-machine, or
with the chain-gang on blazing or
frosty turnpikes. He had skunk be-
hind him that afternoon, creeping up
the drive under cover Of the bushes,
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