Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1914-05-08

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Continued from last week
SYNOPSIS.
CHAPTER I-John Valiant, a rich so
etety favorite, 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 m-His entire remaining
possessions consist Of an old motor car,
\ white bull dog and Damory court. 3
neglected estate In Virginia
CHAPTER Iv-He learns that this es-
tate cam! into the family by royal grant
VaIants ever since.
CHAPTER Won. the way to pamory
burn-haired beauty, and decides that hs
- going to like Virginia immensely.
CHAPTER Wan old negro tells shir-
ftey1s fortune and predicts great trouble
4KoS her on account OF . man
CHAPTER vIr-Uncie Jefferson. an old
negro. takes Valiant to Damory court
CHAPTER v~Ir-shirley.s mother. Mrs.
cambridge, and Major Bristow exchange
"reminiscences during which It is revealed
that the major. valiant's sfsther. a
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
.s eng,s and the brildings IN e . Tsry much sca
his wife. Aunt Daphne. are engaged az
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.
CHAPTER x1-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 xTI-valiant decides to re-
lhabilitate Damory court and make the
land produce a living for him.
CHAPTER xIII-He meets Shirley. who
has 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 deadliness 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 a allan is again
living at Damory court
CHAPTER xvI-valiant learns some
of the history of his family from Doctor
Southall and Major Bristow.
CHAPTER xvII-He learns for the
first time that his father left Virginia on
account of a duel in which Doctor South
all and Major Bristow acted as his faith
~ers seconds.
CHAPTER xvIIT-valiant and Shirley
become good friends. Mrs. cambridge
faints when she first meets Valiant.
CHAPTER xIx-valiant works won
4ders In the old place. He discovers that
he has a fortune in old walnut trees.
CHAPTER xx-with the advice an(
assistance of the major and Shirley, Val
liant restores the gardens to they
were in his fathers time.
caution. crept down the stair, sliding
her hot hand before her along the
cool polished banister. AS she passed
through the lower hall, a hound on the
porch, seeming her, stirred. thumped
his tail on the flooring, and whined.
Cropping her way to the d~ining-room,
she lighted a candle and passed
through a corridor into a ~low-ceiling-
ed chamber employed as a general re-
-ceptacle-a glorified garnet, as Mrs.
cambridge dubbed it.
1t showed a strange assemblage! A
row of chests, stored with winter
clothing, gave forth a clean pungent
smell of cedar, and at one side stood
an antique spinet and a worn set OF
h%orsehair furniture.
Shirley had turned her miserable
eyes on a bookshelf along n wall.
The volumes it contained had been
her fathers, and among them stood
a row of tones taller than their fell
1ows-the bound numbers of a county
newspaper, beginning before the war.
The back of each was stamped with
the year. She was deciphering these
faded imprints. Thirty years ago."
she whispered; Eyes, here 1t is"
She set down the candle and
dragged out one Of the huge leather
backs. Staggering under the weight,
she rested its edge on the table and
began feverishly to turn the pages, her
eye on the date line. She stopped
presently with a quick breath-she
had reached May 18th. The year was
that of the duel: the date was the day
following the jessamine anniversary.
Fearfully her eye overran the columns.
Then suddenly she put her open
hand on the page IS though to blot
out the words. every trace of color
stricken from cheek and brow. But
the line seemed to glow up through
the very flesh: "Died, May 14th; Ed
ward Sassoon, in his twenty-sixth
year."
The book slipped to the floor with a
crash that echoed through the ROOM
1t was true, theni 1t was Sassoon's
death that her mother mourned. The
man in whose arms she had stood
such a little while ago by the old dial
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