Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1914-05-15
Continued from last week
SYNOPSIS


CHAPTER uI-His entire remaining
n white bull dog and Damory court q
neglected estate In Virginia
CHAPTER Iv-He learns that this e.
'fats came into the family by royal grant
end has been in the possession OF ths
Valiants evar since
CHAPTER Won the way to Damory
court he meets Shirley cambridge. an au-
burn-haircd beauty. and decides that he
u going to like Virginia immensely.
CHAPTER Wan OLD negro tells shir-
keysg fortune and predicts great
Tor her on account of q nan
CHAPTER vII-Uncie Jefferson. an old
negro. takes Valiant to Damory court.
CHAPTER vIu-shirieyAs mother, Mrs
pandTidge. and Major Bristow excnan
that the major, Valiant's father. and Q
man named Sassoon, were rivals for the
Sassoon and valiant fought a duel on her
account In which the former was killed
court overgrown with weeds and creep
sers and the buildings in q very much
neglected condition. Uncle Jefferson and
his wife. Aunt Daphne. are engaged as
CHAPTER x-vaIiant explores his an
Hunting Ssn n n party Witch Il invstIss0 his Py estate ate
He recognizes Shirley at the head Of the
party.
CHAPTER xI-He gives sanctuary to
the cornered fox. Gossips discuss the ad-
tragedy In which the elder Valiant took
part
CHAPTER xII-valiant decides to re-
lhabilitate Damory court and make the
land produce a living for him
CHAPTER xIII-He meets Shirley, who
mas been gathering flowers on the Valiant
estate. and reveals his identity to her.
CHAPTER xTv-vaiiant saves Shirley
from the bite of a snake. which bites him..
Knowing the deadllness 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 thai a Valiant is again
living at Damory court
CHAPTER XvI-valiant learns some
of the history of his family from Doctor
Gouthall and Major Bristow.
CHAPTER xvII-He learns for the
sirst time that his father, left Virginia on
account of a duel in which Doctor South
all and Major Bristow acted as his faith
er's seconds.
CHAPTER xvIII-valiant and Shirley
o0O4 ~
Hatnts when she first meets Valiant.
CHAPTER xN-valiant works won
lders in the old place. He discovers that
he has a fortune in old walnu trees.
CHAPTER Xx-With the advice and
assistance of the major and Shirley. Val
liant restores the gardens to what they
were in his fathers time.
CHAPTER XxI-The yearly tourna-
sment, q survival of the 1ousting of feudal
HfF.A 10 10 AA Ald ~ ~ M ~ aar4nt
CHAPTER xxII-At the last moment
Valiant takes the place of one of the
knights, who Is sick, and enters the lists.
CHAPTER xxIII-He wins and chooses
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
dant as queen of beauty.
CHAPTER Xxv-valiant tells Shirley
of his love and they become engaged
ve-e-ery giau. IL WASN'T a mean ola
paper dollar, all dirt and creases; nor
"a battered Whitley silver dollar; but
it was a bright round gold dollar, right
out of the mint Little Mary and little
Susy could hardly sleep that night for
thinking of what they could buy with
those gold dollars.
Early next morning they went
downtown, hand in hand, to the store,
and little Susy bought a bag of goober-
peas, and sticks and sticks of striped
candy, and a timber jack, and a gold
ring, and a wax doll with a silk dress
ON that could open and shut it's eyes"
"Huhl" said the captious Cory.
"You can't buy a wax doll for a dollar.
My ~littlest. littlest one cost three, and
she didn't have a stitch to her back!"
Shut up!" said Hickey briefly.
dolls were cheaper then" She looked
at the row of little negroes, google
eyed at the vision of such largess.
what do you think little Mary did
with her gold dollar? She loved dolls
and candy, too, but she had heard
about the poo-oo-r heather. There was
a tear in her eye. but she took the dol
lar home, and next day when she went
to Sunday-school, she dropped 1t In
the missionary-box.
Little children, what do you reckon
became of that dollar? It bought a
big ~satchelful Of tracts for a mission
airy. He had been a poor man with
six children and a wife with a bone
felon on her right hand-not a child
old enough to wash dishes and all of
them young enough to fall in the fire
so he had to go and be a missionary.
He was going to Alabam-to a canni-
bal island, and he took the tracts and
sailed away in a ship that landed him
on the shore. And when the heather
cannibals saw him they were ve-e-ery
glad, for there hadn't been any ship
wrecked sailors for a long time, and
they were ve-e-ery hungry. So they
tied up the missionary and gathered
a lot Of wood to make a fire and cook
him.
But Is had rained and rained and