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Page Four “The Valiants of Virginia” A itery of Rare Romance— Lively la Action and Rich in Character and Sentiment CHAPTER XL. (Continued.) "Khali 1 let! you wneu it began With me.’ Not last n^ghi —nor the day we planted the ramblers. (Do jruu know, when your little muduy boot went trampling /a*vn the earth about their roots, 1 wanted to stoop dowu and kls* it” So dear every - thing about you wap!* Not |hat. even ing at Rosewood, with the arbor iru grance about us. (I think 1 shall al ways picture you with roses all about you. Red roses the color of your Upa!) No, it was not then that it hetfitn —nor that dreadful hour when you fought with me to save in.v Me—-j aor the morning you *>at your horse in the box-rows in that yew-green habit that made your hair look like molten copper. No, it began the first afternoon, when l sat in my motor with your rose in my hand! it has never left me aiuce, by day or by aight And yet there are people in ; title age of airships and honking high* ways typewriters who thiuk love Bt'flret'Slght is as out-of-date as our little grandmothers’ hoops rusting in the garret. Ah, sweetheart. 1. for one. know better! *Bnppose I had not come to Vir-’ ginla— and known you! My heart lamps when I think of it. It makes one •believe in fate. Here at the Court I found an old leaf-calendar— lt sit* at my elbow now , just as I came on j ft, The date it shows is May 14th. and lta motto Is: Bvery man carries Ida IMe upon a riband about bis neck, i I like that. "That first Sunday at St. Andrew s. 1 thought of a day — may it be soon! —when yon and I might stand before that altar, with your people (my peo pie, too, now) around us. and 1 shall hear you say: 1. Shirley, take thee. John— ’ And to think it is really to oome true! Do you remember the teat the minister preached from? It wu: ’But all men perceive that they liava riches, and that tbelr faces shine as the fames of angels.' I think f Shall go about henceforth with my fisoe shining, so that all men w ill see that I have riches — your love for ine, ”1 am so happy I can hardly see the j worda — or perhaps It is that the sun j has set 1 am sending this over by Uncle Jefferson. Send me back Just a word by him, sweetheart, to say fiat I may come to you tonight. And KjM Iks three short words 1 am so thirsty to bear over and over — one ■wrb between two pronouns—so that I can kiss them all at once!” He raised his head, a little flushed tad with eyes brilliant, lighted a can lie, denied the letter with the ring i« wore and despatched it Thereafter he sat looking into tbej [lowing dusk, watching the pale amps of the constellations deepen to teen gilt against the lapis-lazuli of he sky. and listening to the Insect loiaes dulling Into the woven chorus if evening. Uncle JefTereon was long a returning, and he grew impatient Rally and began to prowl through i« rusty corridors like a leopard, than to the front porch and finally a the driveway, listening at every turn for the familiar slourning step. When at length the old Negro ap **red. Valtant took the note he trough*, his heart beating rapidly, and : tarried it hastily in to the candle ight. He did not Open It at once, but lit for a full minute pressing it be ween his palms as though to extract Horn the delicate paper The beloved krill of lier touch. His hand shook ittgktiy as he drew the folded leaves root the envelope. How would it be ta? "My Knight of the Crimson law?” or "Dear Gardener?” <She tad called him Gardener the day they lad act out the roaes) or perhaps irea "Sweetheart?' It would not be Mtflk only a mere "Yes.” or “Come to Mr perhaps; yet even the shortest ptisive had its beginning and Its ona i He opened and reed. [ sitar an lnatnat he stared unbeilev- My. Then the paper crackled to a MU la kla clutched hand, and he Made a koarae sound which was halt erp, then sat perfectly still, his Whols tace shuddering. What be poet of Sierras to Live In i Marble Chisled by Girl Ward IMF* VME *** / - iV t^ r - F^^Hl <f { '* ’;.■ F7 * ;■ ■ £ : r 1\ fcL, IA \ i * rix V p V ■•;. - . \ ,1 vi I _J l i' i L- .***—** ***** *•""•• "ot.d aeulptrcM. putting the finishing touches F* M* ft J*M«Mn Miller, famed Poet of the Sierras 8 PfftylpM*’M> eifbt years to perpet- MK» Ml vtafl* in atop*-! rimt s w hat MifelMll Kmbo did Her auo |PMmOp»iMB Miller. Poet of ihe mmmm*, • noted »ciiJptre*f the Ww JIMt jtiktiOlM Japanese artist. ■MMRMjr Ae ward of the famous Copyright, ilia The Hobbs-Merrill Cos. j crushed iu his hand was no note ot I tender love-phrases; it was an abrupt dismissal Tin- Maggerlßff contre temps struck the color from his face and left every nerve raw and quiver -1 ing To be "nothing to her. as she i could bo nothing to him*" He felt a j ghastly inclination to laugh. Nothing Ito her* The meaning of the lines jwa* monstrous lr was inconceivable Presently, his brows frowning heuv My. lie spread out the crumpled paper and reread ii with bitur slowness weighing each phrase, "Something ' which >he had 1* anted since she last saw hint, which !h> between them.' " »*>he hail not Rllctw II It; then. —las* night, when they had kissed beside the sun dial! She had loved him then! , What could there be that thrust them • irrevocably apart? i He sprang up and paced the llooj in a blinding passion of resentmeut and : revolt. "You shall’ you shall!” u»« said between his set teeth. "We b« ’ong to each oHier! There ran bo nothing, nothing to separate us;’ he pored over the page, "Sh-' 1 could not see him again, could uo» even explain ” The words seemed , to echo thonipelves. bleak as hail on a prison pane. "If he went to St Andrews', he might find the reaso; why.” What could she mean by th* reference to St. Andrew’s ? He j caught at that as a clue. Gould th>* i old church tell him w-hat had reared : itself In such dismal fashion between them? Without stopping to think of the darkness or that the friendly doors lof the edifice would be closed, caught up his hat and went swift y j down the drive to the road, which he plunged breathlessly. Thi blue star sprinkled sky was nov. streaked with clouds like faded or , [ chids, and the shadow s on the uneven ground under his hurried feet made him giddy. Through the dm aud hurly-burly of his thoughts he was; i conscious of dimly-moving shaper i across fences, the sweet breath o< cows, and a Negro pedestrian whe { greeted him In passing. He was I stricken suddenly with the thought ■ I that Shirley was suffering, too. 1* l 1 seemed incredible that he should now he raging along a country road at nightfall to And something that ao horribly hurt them both. It was almost dark—save for the starlight—when he saw the shadow of the square ivy-grown spire rearing stark front its huddle of foliage against the blurred background. Ft 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 out lines of the gravestones loomed pal lidly, and from the bell-tower came i the faint inquiring cry of a small owl. Valiant stood still, looking about him. What could he learn here? lie read »o answer to the riddle. A little to J one side of the path something showed ; enow-like on the ground, and he went ’ toward it. Nearer, he saw that It , was a mass of flowers, staring up : whitely from the semi-obscurity from within an Iron railing. He bent over, suddenly noting the scent; it was cape jessamine. With a curious sensation of almost prescience plucking at him. he took a box of vestas from his pocket and struck one. It flared up. Illuminating a flat granite slab in which was cut a name and inscription: EDWARD SASSOON “Forgive us our trespasses.” The silence seemed to crash to earth like a great looking-glass and shiver into a million pieces. The wax dropped from his fingers and in the supervening darkness a numb frigh’ gripped him by the throat. Shirley had laid these there, on the grave oi the man his father had killed—the cape jessamines she had wanted that day. for her mother! He understood.! It esme to him at last that there i was a chill mist groping among the' trees and that he was very cold.. He went back along the Red Road ' stumbllngly. Was this to be the end of the dream, which he had fancied ! would last forever? Could it be that she was not for him? Was It no hoary He that the since of the fathers herd. Her crowning ambition has been to do a bust of the poet that would help to Immortalize his name The work Is now complete ana stands as a tribute of her love for !he great man. The buat is what Is known as Ihe heroic size-—greater than life itaelf. Mrs. Kanna refused to work from a death mask. Hattie Erminie Rives were visited upon the third aud fourth generation? When he re-entered the library the candle was guttering in the burned wings of a night-moth. The place looked all at oure gaunt aud desolate and dot-polled What could Virginia, what could Damory t’ourt. be to him without her? The wrinkled note I‘iy on the desk and he bent suddenly with a sharp catching breath and kissed It. There welled over him a wave of rebellious longing. The can dh* spread to a hazy yellow blur. The walls fell away. He stood under the moonlight, with his arms about her Upa on hers and his heart beating to the sound of the violins behind them. He laughed—a harsh wild langi that rang through the gloomy town Then he threw himself on the cou:n and hurled his face In his hands. H > was still lying there when ti e u.is y rain-wet dawn came through the shut ters. CHAPTER XLI. Tne Coming of Greet King. It was Sunday afternoon, and unde: the hemlocks. Rickey Snyder ha I gathered her minions—a dozen chll dren from the nearby houses with tne usual sprinkling of little black from the kitchens There wer parents, of course, to whom thl“ mingling of colo r and degree was a matter of conventional prohibition but since the advent of Rickey, ii« whose soul lay a Napoleonic instinct of leadership, this was more honoreu I in the breach than in the observance "My! Ain’t it scrumptious here now!” said Cozy Cabell, hanging y »l low lady-slippers over her ears. "1 wash we could play here always ” "Mr Valiant will let us.” said Rickey. “I asked him." “Oh. he will.’* responded Coxy gloomily, "but he’ll probably go and marry somebody who’ll be mean about it.” "Everybody doesn't get married." said one of the Byloe twins, with mas culine assurance. "Maybe he won't " "Much a boy knows about it!” re torted Cozy scornfully. “Women have to, and someone of them will make him. (Greenville Female Seminary Simms, if you slap that little nlggci again. Ml slap you!)” Greenle rolled over on the grass and tittered. "Miss Mattie Sue didn't,” she said. "Ah heah huh say de yuddah day et wus er moughty good feelln* ter go ter bald Mlstls aa git up Marstah?'* "Well,” said Cozy, tossing her head till the flower earrings danced. ’Tm going to get married if the man hasn’t got anything but a character and a red mustache. Married women don t have to prove they could have got a husband if they had wanted to.” “Let’s play something.” proposed Rosebud Meredith, on whom the die cusalon palled "Let’s play King King Katlko.” "It’s Sunday!"—this from her smaller and more righteous sister. "We’re forbidden to play anything but Bible games on Bunday, and if Rosebud does. I'll te’L” "Jaybird tattle-tale!” sang Rose bud derisively. "Don’t care If you do!” "Well.” decreed Rickey. "Well play Sunday-school then. It would take a saint to object to that I’m superintendent and this stump’s my desk. All you children sit down un der that tree.” They ranged themselves 1n two rows, the white children, in clean Sabbath pinafores and go-to-meeting knickerbockers, in front and the col ored onee, in ginghams and cotton prints. in the rear—the habitual ex pression of a differing social station. "Oh!” shrieked Miss Cabell, “and 111 be Mrs. Merrywea’her Mason and teach the infants* class.” "There isn’t any infant class,” said Riokey. "How could here be when there aren’t any infants? The les son is over and I’ve Just rung the bell for silence. Children, this is Missionary Sunday, and I’m glad to see so many happy faces here today. Coxy,” she said relenting, "you can be the organist if you want to.” "I won't," said Coxy sullenly. "If I can’t be tablecloth I won’t be dish raff.’’ "AH riffht, you needn’t," retorted Rickey freeslngly. "Sit up, Greenle. People don’t lie on their backs in Sunday-school.” Greenle yawned dismally, and right* ed herself with Injured slowness. "Ah diffuses ter ’cep yo’ insult, Rickey Snydah," she said. "Ah’d rut hah lose inah ’ltglon dan mah laz-nes*. En Ah 'apises yo’ splssable dissleltion!” "Let us all rise,” continued Rickey, unmoved, "and sing Kingdom Com ing” And she struck up luetliy, beating time on the stump with a stick: ‘ From all the dark places of earths heathen races, O, see how the thick shadows flee’" and the rows of children Joined In with unction, the colored contingent j coming out 9trong on the chorus; j * He v* rs shall be full ob ds wunduhful story As w-atahs dat tovah de sea!" The clear voices in the quiet air startled the fluttering birds and sent a squirrel to the tip-top of an oak, trom which he looked down, flirting his brush. They roused a man, too, who had laid in a sodden sleep under a bush at a little distance. He was ragged aud soiled aud his heavy, bru tal face, covered with a dark stubble of some days’ grow-tb, had an ugly scar slanting from cheek to hair. Without getting up. he rolled over to get a better view, and *et hi* eyes, blinking from their slumber, on the children. We will now take up the collec tion." said Rickey. ("You can do It, •lune. C*e a flat-piece of bark.i Re member that what we give today is for the poor heathen in—in Alabama." That s no heathen place,” object ed Cozy with spirit’. "My cousin live* in Alabama.” Well, then. 1 ' acquiesced Rickey, ‘.‘anywhere you like Hut I reckon your cousin wouldn’t he above taking the money. Kor the poor heathen who have never heard of (lod. or Vlr idnla. or anything Think Os them ami give cheerfully." The bark slab made it* rounds, re ceiving leaves, acorns, .ind an occa sional pin Midway, ifowever, there arose a shrill shrink from the bearer THK I) £ll< 01 T TIMES, V ' NESI> AV . NOVEMBER 26 . 1915. v ; :X •• xfyH? l- ~< r tig-. 1 , X and the collection was scattered broadcast "Rosebud Meredith,' said Rickey withering!). "It would serve you right for putting that toad in tne plate if vour hand would get all over warts' I'm sure 1 hope it will.” »he rescued the fallen piece of bark ami announced: "The collection this af ternoon haa amounted to a hundred dollars and seven cents. And now, children,, we will skip the catechism and I will tell you a story.” Her auditors hunched themselves nearer, a double row of attentive white and black faces, as Rickey with a preliminary bass cough, began in a drawling tone whose mimicry called forth giggles of ecstasy. “There was once two sisters, who | went to Sunday-school and loved their : teacher ve-e-ery much. They were al- i way» good and attentive —not like ; that little nigger over there! The , one with his thumb in his mouth! One was little Mary and the other was little Susy. They had a mighty rich uncle who lived in Richmond, and once he came to see them and gave them each a dollar. And they were ve-e-ery glad. It wasn't a mean old paper dollar, all dirt and creases; nor a battered whltey silver dollar; but it was a bright round gold dol lar. right oat of the mint. Little Mary and little Suay could hardly sleep that night for thinking of what they could buy with those gold dollars. "Early next morning, they went down-town, hand in hand, to the •tore, and Uttle Susy bought a bag of goober-peas, and sticks and sticks of striped candy, and a limber jack, and a gold ring, and a wax doll with a silk dress on that could open and shut Its eyes—” "Huh!” said the captious Cozy. "You can’t buy a wax doll for a dol lar. My littleat. littlest one cost three, and she didn’t have a stitch to her back!” "Shut up!” said Rickey briefly. "Dolla were cheaper then.” She look ed at the row of little Negroes, gog gle-eyed at the vision of such large ness. "What do you think little Mary did with her gold dollar? She loved dolla and candy, too, but she had beard about the poo-00-r heather. There was a tear in her eye, but she took the dollar home, and next day when she went to Sunday-school, she dropped it in the missionary-box. "Little children, what do you reck n became of that dollar? It bought a big satchetful of tracts for a mission ary. He had been a poor man with si* 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 bes mission ary. He was going to Alabam —to a cannibal’ taland, and he took the tracts and sailed away in a ship that landed him on the shore. And when the heathen cannibals saw him they were ve-e-ery glad, for there hadn t been any shipwrecked sailor* for a long time, and they were ve-e-ery hungry. So they tied up the mission ary and gathered a lot of wood to make a fire and cook him. "But It had rained and rained and rained for so long that the wood was all wet, and it wouldn’t bum. and they all cried because they were so hungry. And then they happened to find the satchelful of tracts, and the tracts were ve-e-ery dry. They took them and stuck them under the wet wood, and the tracts burned and the wood caught Are and they cooked the missionary and ate him. "Now, little children, which do you think did the most good with her dol ter—little Susy or little Mary ?” The front row sniggered, and a sigh came from the'* colored ranks. "Dem ar* can'bals,” gasped a dusky infant breathlessly, dey done eat up all dat. candy on dem goober-peas, too?” The inquiry was drowned In a shriek from several children In uni* son. They scrambled to their feet, casting fearful glances over their shoulders The man who had been lying behind the huah had risen ami was coming toward them at a slouch ing amble, one foot dragging slightly. His appearance. Indeed, was enough ta cause panic. With his savage face, set now in a grin, and hia tramp-llke costume, he looked fierce and animal* like. White and black, the children fled like startled rabbits, older ones dragging younger, without a back word look—gll save Rickey, who stood quite still, her widening eye* fixed on him In a kind of blanched fasci nated tenor. He cams close to her. never taking hi* eyes from her. then put bla heavy grimy hartHT under her chin and turn- Absolutely New Dance Described By Originator ' -. s ‘8... m v *' ®gy /', ; .Wf J®^ fWifetaflu frvs m^Eflfc lif® lm ®- K*l®, , y s HriP' Jp^. Jr *-<» -' .. f Vv ; * .• ■X ; ' X’ * vSP^ci i jj ~"i't '*'**■! „ *1 * I *I Posed Especially for Thla Newspaper by Maurice and Mle# Walton. . ed her twitching face upward, chuck ling. "Ain't afeard, damn me!” he san with admiration. "Wouldn’t shedad die w ith th’ fine folks’ w hite-liverec young uns! Know who 1 am, don't ye?” ’’Greef King. u Rickey’s lips ruthei formed than spoke the name. "Right An’ I know you, too. Got Jes’ th’ same look e* when ye wuzn\ no hlgher’n my knee. So ye ain t at th’ Dome no mo’, eh? Purple an' fine llnnitig an' a edification. Ho ho! Coin’ ter make ye another ladyess like the sweet ducky-dovey that res cooed ye from th’ lovin’ embrace o' yer fond step-parlent, eh?” Rickey’* small arm went suddenly out and her fingers tore at his shirt band. "Don’t you,” she burst in a paroxysm of passion; "don't you even speak her name! If you do, I'll kill you!” (Continued.) SSOO PRIZE OFFERED BY METROPOLITAN MAGAZINE Metropolitan Magazine is offering the thinking ir.on and women of America a wonderful opportunity It gives some person with sociological convictions a chance to win fame in Home Comfort. SZZIZZIZIZZZZZSZZZZZIZZZZZZZZZZZZZZSZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ^ZZZZZZZZZZZIS • what the business man thinks of when he goes home at night. He wants to spend the evening profitably—to him self and his own. He tpants time to improve his mind, to engage in social affairs, to get acquainted with his family. & He wants to “keep posted *' on the news, too. But he does not get a fair chance at the other things unless he has a newspaper which is not a mass of vain and empty detail. <T The men who read The Detroit I Times get the news in concise - form. They read it, and they smssssssEESa ' don’t waste time. And then they play with the kids, and Its the are sociable with their wives. Real _ pZ- The Detroit Times (Editor's Not*—After describing for the Ir.lllHt .if lull.ill Tl Mrs the H%W est Mud moat popular dancvs of u> .• lemon. M. Mauri. *. the world'* gr4*t r*t ballroom dan«-«r. has written today r specially for tin Detroit Timas thla article on how to dance hie new dance the a. tractive dunce which ha OJid Mina Walton huve Juat originated and nre bos Inning to teach their society pupil*.) BY MAURICE.. (Copyrighted. I*l.l, by the* N'ewapapsr, anterpi iae Aaaot lain it.) This dance hasn't yet been aeen on any stage. .Mias Walton and I have only just originated it. and It is still without u name. Hut it i* so fascinat ing a step that we. who dance all day 1 fr un noon till nearly dawn, are always ready and eager to try our “now dance’ Juat onc» more! ] It can he danced to any two-part ragtime music. The swgying of the body to the time of the itHisJe is tlie fascinating part of the dance The easiest way to get till* time Is to re- I hi nicer that there 1* a rising and fall- I lug of the shoulders corresponding to the movement of the feet. When the the world of letters with also a rich mcritty prise as recompense for the effort. This W"0. p 1 u** 15 cents u word— headliner'* rates with it vrngeanc. - will be the reward for the best answer to the Oeorae Bernard Shaw article that appears In Jiecember Metropolt tan. The report of a speech i>*fore the famous National Liberal Club of Lon <Vn. It exploit some remarkable opln lona on social equality These opinions biistle with points that arouse Instant difference of opinion If not antagonism In the reader You will want. «t once, to write a drastic answer that will show up the fallacies of the Hhawian theories. Metropolitan wants its readers t > act on this Impulse and send the re sult to them, to be judged by a Jurv composed of Andrew •’arnegle. Jack London and James Keeley of the Chi cago Tribune, all men more famous frr their views on so< ial equality than any other achievement. With this well-balanced trio of judges, every competitor may rest as sured that the Judgment will be Im partial. based on the sound sense and genuine philosophy contained In the letters submitted. The winning letter will Hppear In the February numbef of Metropolitan. A number of lOnglish contemporaries of Mr. Shaw have already endeavored to answer him. hut doubtful with sue cess. It Is because Metropolitan be lieves that no adequate reply has been made that It makes this prise offer, which should result In extremely in teresting and valuable discussion. i«ft foot advances the left thoulder rises, and the right shoulder itssi with tihe right foot. Some of the principal steps we &*▼« taken from the tango, the maxlxe and the c&ifa-walk. The dance starts with aight plain walking steps. In the position which we have posed In Figure 1. Remem ber that right from the start we keel i time with that faeclnatlng shoukiei j movement. After these eight hart, we drop into the old polka etep, with the modem addition of two movements of the hll to each step. The gentleman starts to the left with 1 eft-rigbt-left. turning at the same time so that when lu .continues the step right-left-rtght -h* 1 advances lu the same direction. Tho** familiar with the opera of “Carmen* will recognize this as the so-called “habanera dance*' of Spain. Then we slide four times to the lefi with the body beut in the direction o! the movement, and then four times to the right. This Is once repeated, fol lowed by eight bars of the habanera step. Then the gentleman folds his arm* across bis ( best, and the lady, folding hers, rests them on his. in this po sition they describe a large ctrcle in plain two-step measure. This is repeated, the couple sepaxat ing and each dancing singly in a lon* circle. Coming back to him with hei folded arms again resting on his, tin lady bends slowly her right knee, ex tending the left leg backwards untl St touches the ground. The gentleman of course, kneels at the same time but his left knee is bent and his rlghi extended. They kneel thus In a serlet of little jerky movements, one Jerk to each beat of the music. Then they two-step once again sepa rately, turning back to tack and re turning so as to face each other. Thf gentleman Mops, and the lady dance* half way around again, so that hei back is to him. He takes her handi as in Figure 2. and they make thre< running steps, flrst to the right, end ing in a long glide, as shown in Fig ure 2. anil then to the left. Then they go back to the stef witlch I described as the “habanera' and dance this for sixteen measures The dance finishes with a regular old fashioned cakewalk, the lady facini in the same direction as the gentle ■man and turning on the last beat t< dron in front of him in a gracefu curtsy. Hlcksy’a for Quality Thanks! r j In harmony with the Thanks- Aa giving spirit thal P A prevails we wish tc acknowledge our ap preciation of the un precedented benefit) j bestowed upon us dur *ng the past year, and to express our heart felt thanks to our friends, whe have favored this store with the largest patronage it has evei known. Hickeys 201*201 Woodward Avonua •Damn m