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The Valiants \f Virginiaj QOBJTilhS ISIS, tij P.obl* KftrnlI Co. Tn r.n upper tie* of the str.nd a spec tmtor meUe a cup of his hands. "The Knight of the Go den Spur against tho Held." he called. "What odds?" "Five to one, Spotteswood." a voice answered. "Ten dollare," announced the first. ?"Good." And doth made memoran? dum on their cults: A second time the trumpet sounded, and the Knight of Castlewood flashed iaglortously down tho roped aisle?a rales. Again and again the clear note rang out and a mounted figure plunged by. end preeently, in a burst of cheering, the herald proclaimed "The Kuight of tee black Eagle?one!" and Chilly Lusk. In old-rose doublet and inky plume cantered back with a silver ring upon his pike. No simple thing, reproach In* leis? urely and afoot, to send that tapering point straight to tht tiny nark. But at headlong gallop, attrido a blooded horse straining to take the bit. a deed requiring a nice eye, a perfect seat and an unwavering arm and hand! Those knights who looped hack with their plkee thus braceleted bad spent long hours in praHlcr and each rodo as naturally as he breathed; yet more then once a horse shied In roid-courso and at the too-eager thrust of the spur bolted through the ropes. Valiant made his first eisav?and missed? with the blood singing in hi9 ears. The ring flew from his pike, catching him a swinging blow on the temple In its rebound, but he scar- ggf felt it. A.i be cantered back be heard the majori? base pitting him against the field. And then, suddenly, stand and field all vanished. He saw only the lorn; level rope-lined lane with its twinkllm: mld-elr point. An exhilaration caughr. him at the leg] of the splendid horse? flesh beneath him?that sense of one ?eeg with the creature he bestrode which the Instinctive horseman Knows. He lifted bis Isnce and hefted lt. se' k Ing tie Absolute balance, feeling it* point aa a fencer with bis rapier. When Main the blood-red sash streamed away the herald's cry, "Knight of the Crtmaon Itoso?One!' set the field hand-clapping. From the next joust also. Valiant returned wltt the gage upon bis lance. Two ha.' gone to the Champion of CastleWool and two to scattering riders. When Valiant won his fourth the grand stand thundered with applause. The trumpet again pealed its silver) proclamation Judge Cuabiiers was on bis feet "Fifty to ten on the Crimson Knee," he cried. This time, however, there were nr takers. Re cal!^ | again, but none heard him; the laut this were sco absorbing. Where bad John Valiant learned that trick of tho loose wrist and in flexible thrust, but at the fencin - dub? Where that iiibconsctous management of the rein, that nice gage of speed and dlttance. hut on th< . hold? Tee old sports stood him ge)l m xood steed. "Why, he hoe a seat like a centaur!" exclaimed the Judge praise Indeed in a community wheru riding wss a pacslon and horseflesh a fetish! "Oh, deer!" mourned Nancy Chal? mers "I've bet six pairs of gloves on Quint Csrter Wfgf rund, if it has to be anybody else. I'd rather it were Mr Valiant It's about time Hamory Court got something after Kip-Vau Winkling it for thirty years toshles. he's riving us the dunce, and I lovo Mm for that' Quint still has a t being, though If be takes the next two. and Mr Valiant mUses?" Kathsrlro- l8Sjg?d at fcgf with a lit? tle smile He won't miss," she said. Sbe bed sein that look on hin t I to and read It aright John Vsr Hunt had striveu In manv SMttegUi. not only of skill but of at* n*?i and dar? ing, before i rowded But never In all his lit?? gad he M ? sire I to pluck the prUe H)g grip vai 'ease on the lance as the yellow doublet and olive plunm of QggUtWCjOd ?bot away .for a last time?sad failed. An insteut later tho Knlr.ht ot tin- Crlnv son Koso flashed do*n the Hits with the Isst ring ou his pil ?> And the touiney was won. In the shouting und hand 0tapping Valiant took tho POM from I.is hat band and hound It with a shred of his sash to his lance-point. As hi rede slowly toward the mat-sod stand, the whole field was so still that he could h?sr the hoofs of the file of knights behind blm. Tho people were on their feet. Tho mounted herald blew his blunt "liy the Majesties of St Michael and Rt. George." h?? proclaimed, i declare the Knight of the Crimson ltose ii " victor of this our tourney, and do charge him now to gjgaogi Ml Queen ef Beaut/, that all may do her hom? age!" .Shlrl#?y MW Ihi bor*o coming down the llim. in r'br bareheaded now. and her h?art be^an t,, i l( .\nlly. Iteyoiid wan him to like part, Shi had not thought She lool.? d about her, suddenly dismayed. I ? ?I were smiling at her anil clapping their hands. From the other end of Hie ?land she saw Nancy Chalmers throw? ing her a kiss, and beside her a tall pale girl In champagne color staring through a jew eled lorgnette. S ie was conscious all at once that the flanneled rider was very close ? * ? that, his pike-point, with ita big red blossom. wa3 stretching up to her. With the rose in her hand she curt? sied to him, while the blurred throng ? I itself hoarse, and tho hau l Strock up "You Great Big Beautiful Doll," with extraordinary rapture, to Um tune of which the noise finally sub? sided to a battery of hilarious con? gratulations Which left her (lushed and a little breathless. Nancy Chalmers and Betty Page had burst, upon her like petticoated whirlwinds and pres? ently, when tho crowd hal lessened, tho judge came to introduce his visi? tor. "Mr. Fargo and his daughter are our guests at Gladden Hall," he told her. * They are oli friends of Valiant's, by the way; they knew him in New York." "Katharine's lighting her incense now, i guess," observed Silas Fargo. "See there!" Ho pointed across the stand, where stood a willowy tan fig? ure, ono hand beckoning to the con? course below, where Valiant stood, the center of a shifting group, round which the white bulldog, mad with recoverod liberty, tore In eccentric circles. As they looked, she called softly, "John! iohn!" Shirley saw him start and faco about, then come quickly toward her, amazement and welcome in his eyes. As Shirley turned away a little later with the major, that whispering voice seemed to sound in her cars?"John! John!" There smote her suddenly the thought that when he had chosen her his Que?n of Beauty, ho had not seen tho otky:r?had not known she was there. A few moments before the day had been golden; she went home through a landscape that somehow seemed to have lost its brightest glow. CHAPTER XXIV. Katharine Decldee. Katharine left tho field of Runny mede with John Valiant In the dun colored motor. She sat in the driver's seat beside him, while the bulldog ca? pered, ecstatically barking, from side to sido of the rear cushions Her father had declined the honor, remark? ing that he considered a professional chauffeur a sufficient risk of his valua? ble lifo and that the Chalmers' grays wero good enough for him?a decision which did not wholly displease Katka rlne. T'ae car was not the smart Pan hard in which she had so often spun down the avenue or along the shell roads of the north shore. It lacked those fln-de-siecle appurtenances Which marked the ne plus ultra of its kind, as her observant eye recognized; but it ran staunch and true. The powerful hands that gripped tho steering-wheel wero brown with sun and wi d, and the handsome faco above it had a look of koOB&egg and energy she had never surprised before. They pegged many vehicles and there were few whose oc? cupants did not greet him. In fact, as lio presently remarked, it was a saving of energy to keep his hat off; an ! ad tossed tho Panama Into tho reef scat. On the r?m of the village a group raieed a cheer to winch ho nodded laughingly, and further on a little old Ii iv on a timid vine-colored porch i Udo a < horch? waved a blacks I mitted hand to him with a sweet old time gesture. Katharine noted that ho bov ed to hot with tatra i are. nt h Miss Mattie Sue Mahry," ho eabl. ' the quaintest, dearest thing you ever saw. she taught my father his letters". rg Hid Read stretched level hefore them, ho threw the throttle open lor g long rush through the thymy scented air. Tho light, lato at'tortiowu brec-'f drew by the:n, sweep li i back Kathnrlne*i graoeful ginuons \ ii and spraying then with odors or glover and sunny fruit. They passed i orchard clumps bei.ding with young appl 'S, boundless .lisles of green young-tasi,? lc l corn and shadowy j grovel thot $ moiled of fern and sassu fras. opening out into more sunlightcd elites overarched by the Intenee pone* trablo Of the Juno iky, John Valiant had never seemed to her so wholly Rood to see, with bit ernvll | ' elf ruffling la tht ir Bight and i the weetertng sun shining redly on ins face Midway of this spurt he looked at her to sav; "Did you ever know a more- beautiful countrj side'.* Bee bow the ptuk-and-yellow of those grain ii Idl lades Into the purple of the hills. Very ifw painters have ever Ogptured a tint like that, it's like rngpbcrries I crushed In curdled tniik." Tvg unite lost m> heart to it all.' ' she said, bif voice jolting with the speed of their course. "It's a perfect pgetorel * ? * so different from our terrtflfl city pace. * ? * Of course it must, be a trifle dull at times R ? ? ? eeelng t ii - - sann? people ai ways ? * * und without the thea? ter end the opem and the whirl about on- but ? * * the Kind of life one reada ahout * * * in the nov els of tin- South, you know see i luppoae oni dot ant realise that it a< i ?!. ex lets hi *n on ? oomei to i I ailliern place like tili?. And lbs n<-rr, eervantal How odd it must hi to nave a white-haired old tarky In g araae-buttoned swaltoe lall for a bot? Irr! So plclur. muu ?' At Judge thai i.let s' i bare a fet ling all tin time that I'm v. Iking through a itnge re* hewronl." The car ggetkened spe d as II slid B a w bite w a ihed Ca bin al * hoae en trunco eat a dusky gray bearded tig nie Valiant pointed, "Do you nee , him ?" he asked. "I see a very ordinary old colored man sitting on the door-stop,' Katha? rine rei lied. 'That's Mad Anthony, onr local Mother Bhipton. He's a prophet and soothsayer Uncle Jefferson ?that's my bo?y-sorvaut?insists that he fore? told my coining to Damory Court. If we had more time you could have your fortune told." "How thrilling!" she commented with balf-humorous irony. He pointed to a groat white house set In a grove of trees. "That is Beeehwood," he told her, "the Beverly homestead. Young Beverley was the Knight of the Silver Crosr. A fine old plac e, isn't it ? It was burned by the Indians during the French and Indian War. My great-great-great-graudfath er He broke off. "But then, those old things won't interest you." "Tho\ interest you a great deal, don't they?" she naked. "Yes," he admitted, "they do. Y'ou see, my ancestors are such new ac? quaint ancos, I find them absorbing. You know when I lived in New York?" "Last month." He laughed a little?not quite the laugh she had known in the past. "Yes, but I can hardly believe it; i' seem to have been here half a lifetime. To think that a month ago I was a double-dyed New Yorker." "It's ln>en a strange experience for you. When you come back to New York?" j He looked at her. oddly she thought. "Why should I go back?" "Why? Uecauee it's your natural habitat. Ins t it?" "That s the word," he said smiling. "It was my habitat. This is my home." She was silent a moment in sheer The Tournament Ball at Darr.ory Court That Night W33 More Than an Lvent. surprise. She had thought of this Southern essay as a quickly passing incident, a colorful chapter whoso page might any day be turned. But ii STai impossible to mistake his mean? ing. Clearly, he was deeply infatuated s/Hh this Arcadian experience and had 110 thought at present but to continue it Indefinitely;. They wer? passing the entrance of a cherry-bordered lane, and without tak- ? ing his hands from the gear, he Bodded toward the low broad-eaved dwelling with its flowering arbors that showed in flashing glimpses of brown Mid red between the lntorvenis2 trees. "The palace of the queen!" he said? "Kosewood, by name." She looked some curiosity. Clear? ly, if not a refuge of genteel poverty, neither Was it the abode of wealth; so. from her assured rampart or' tho Fargo millions. Katharine reflected Complacently. The girl was a local f:\Torite. of course?ho had been tact? ful as to that. It was fortunate, in a way, that he had not seen her. Katha-1 line, in tho grand stand until after? ward. Feeling toward her as she be lloved he did, with his absurd ciirect ne8B, ho would have been likely to drop the rose in her lap, never re? flecting that, the tourney being a local function, the choice should not fall up? on an outlander. Tin- slowing of tho rar brought her back to the present, and she looked up to s^e before thorn t he great gate of Glad let! Hall. She did not speak till I they had quite stopped. Then, sj her hand lay In his for farewell, "You ft re right In your de- I clsion," she Haiti softly. "This is your place Toil are n Valiant of Virginia. I didn't realize it before, but I am be- j ginning to see all it means to you " I1*-;- voice bold a lingering indofin able quality thai waB almost sadness, and for that one slender instant, she opened on him the unmasked batteries of her glorious gray eyes. * ? e e e 0 e ? The tournament ball at Damory Court that night was more than an event. Tho old mansion was an Irre? sistible magnet. The Moor of its yel? low parlor v. as known to be of delecta? ble hugeness. Its gardens were a le? gend. The whole place, moreover, was steeped In the very odor of old mys? tery and new romance. Small wonder that to this particular affair the elect ?the major was the high custodian of the rolls, his decision!) being as tho laws of tho M< des and Persians?came M.iily from the farthest county lino, and the big homes of ti> > neighbor? hood were crammed with over-night guesti By half past nine o'clock the pha lanx of chaierOM decreed by old cmp lot'! had begun to arrive, and the great Iron gate nt the front of the drive er"i;t and niStlSSI now SOW an impos Ing prooesslonal of oarrlages. Thet;o passed up a slope as radiant with the fairy light of paper lanterns as a Japa in ? thoroughfare In festival season. The colored bulbs swung moon like fiom tre?- and j.'iritb, painting their rainbow lusters on grass and drive? way, Under th<- high r ay columns of tko porch and Into the wide door, framed In Its small leaded panes thai glowed with the merry light within, poured a stream of loveliness: in car riago-wraps of light tints, collared and edged with fur or eider, or wide sleeved mandarin coats falling back from dazzling throats and arms, hair swathed with chiffon against the night dews, find gallantly cavaliereu by mas cu'ine black and white. These from their tiring-rooms over? flowed presently, garbed like dreams, to make obeisance to the dowagers and then to drift through flower lined corridors, the foam on recurrent waves of discovery. Behind the rose-bower, in the hall, which shielded a dozen colored musicians?violins, cello, gui? tars and mandolins?came premonitory chirps and shivers, which presently wove into the low and dreamy melody of "Carry Mc Back to Old Virginia." Promptly as the clock in the hall chimed ten, the music merged into a march. Door3 on opposite sides of the upper hall swung wide and down the broad staircase came, with slow step, a stately procession: two heralds in Cnwn-colored doublets with scroll and trumpets wound wii.h Rowers, behind them the Queen of Beauty, her finger tlps resting lightly in the hand of the Knight of the Crimson Rose, and these followed by as brave a concourse of lords and ladies as ever graced castle hall In the gallant days "when knight? hood was in flower." Shirley's gown was of pure white: her anna were swathed in tulle, crossed with straps of seed-pearl, over which hung long semi-flowing sleeves of satin, and from her shoulders rose a stiff pointed medieval collar of Vene? tian lace, against whose pale traceries her bronze hair glowed with rosy lights. The elge of the square-cut cor? sage was powdered with the pearls and against their sheen her breast ann neck had the soft creamy ivory of magnolia buds. Her straight plain train of satin, knotted with fresh white rose-buds (Nancy Chalmers had la? bored for a frantic half-hour In tho | dressing-room for this effect) was held by the seven-year-old Byloe twins, beribboned knickerbockers, duly impressed with the grandeur of their privilege and primly intent on acquit tins themselves with glory. Sblrley'fl face was still touched with tho surprise that had swept it as I Valiant had stepped to her side. She hod looked to see him In the conven? tional panoply a sober-sided masculino modo decrees. What she had beheld was a figure that might have stepped cut of an Elizabethan picture-frame. He wai in deep purple slashed with gold. A cloak of thin crimson velvet narrowly edged with ermine hung from his shoulders, lined with tlssue titU clotb-of-gold. From the rolling brrm oi his bat swept a curling purple 1 plume. Ho wore a slender dress-sword, and an order set with brilliants spar? kled on his breast. The costume had been on? he had worn at a fancy ball of the winter be forcj. It had been made from a paint? ing at Windsor of one of tho dukes of Buckingham, and it made a perfect foil for Shirley's white. Tho eleven knights of the tourney each with his chosen lady, if lese splendid, were tricked out In sufficient ly gorgeous attire. Many an ancient brocade had been awakened for the nonce from Its lavender bed. and ruffs and gold-braid were at no premium. To tho twanging of the deft black fingers, they passed In gorgeous array between hies of low-cut gowns and flower-like faces and masculine swal low-taiis, to the yellow parlor. Once there Lha music ceased with a splendid crash, the eh ven knights each dropped ' upon oue kneo, the eleven ladies in- 1 waiting curtsied low, and Shirley, seat- j ed upon the dais, loaned her burnished head to receive tho crown. What though the bauble was but bristol board, its jeweled chasing but tinsel and paste? On her head it glowed and trembled, a true diadem. As Valiant set the glittering thing on those rich and wonderful coIIb, tho music of her presence was singing a swift melody in his blood. His coronat ion address held no such flowery periods as would have rolled from tho major's soul. He had chosen' a single paragraph he had lighted on in! an old book In the library?ahistory-of tho last Crusade In French black-let? ter. He had translated and memorized, the archaic phrasing, keeping the quaint feeling of the original: "These noble knights bow in your, presence, fair lady, as their leige, whom they know as even In judgment, as dainty in fulfilling these our acts of arms, and do recomr ?nd their all unto your flood Grace in as lowly wise, as they can. O queen, In whom tho whole story of virtue is written with the language of beauty, your eyes, which have been only wont to discern the bowed knees of kneeling hearts und, inwardly turned, found always the heavenly solace of a sweet mind, Bee them, ready in heart and able with hands not only to assailing but to pre? vailing." A hushed rustle of applause?not loud: the merest, whisper of silken [eet and feathered fans tapped softly? t< stilled to a widespread approbation. It was the first sight many there had had of John Valiant and In both looks and manner be fitted their b?st ideals. The queen's curtsey v. as the signal for the music, w hich throbbed sudden? ly into a march, and sin- Btepped down beside btm. Couple after couple, knights and ladles, ranged behind lhem, tiil the twenty four stood ready I >r the royal quadrille. It was tho old* fashioned lancers, but the deliberate strain lent the familiar measures some* thing of the stately effect of tho mill Ul t. Quat rllles were not invented as aids to conversation, and .lohn Valiant'! and Shirley's was necessarily limited. ' The decorations are simply deli? cious!" she said as they faced each other briefly. "How did you manag?! ? M Wut' Katharine Had Never Looked More Handsome. it?" "Homo talent with a vengeance. Un? cle Jefferson and I did it with our lit? tle hatchets. But Uie roses?" They were swooped apart and Shir? ley found herself curtsying to Chilly Lusk. "More than queen!" he said under his breath. "I had my heart set on naming you today. I reckon I've lost my rabbit-foot!" Opposite, in turn, Hetty Pago had slipped her dainty hand in John Val? iant's. "Ah haven't seen such a lovely dance for yeahs!" she sighed, Isn't Shirley too sweet? If Ah had hair like hers, Ah wouldn't speak to a soul on earth!" ? The exigencies of the figure gave no space for answer, and presently, after Certain labyrinthine evolutions, Shir? ley's eyes were gazing into his again. "How adorable you look!" he whis? pered, as he bowed over her hand. "How docs it feel to be a queen?" "This little head was never made to wear a crown." sho laughed. "Queens should be regal. Miss Fargo would have?" The music swept tho rest away, but not the look of blinding reproach he gave her that made her heart throb wildly as she glided on. The last note of the quadrille slip? ped into a waltz dreamily slow, and Valiant put his arm about Shirley and they floated away. Once before, in tho moonlighted garden at Rosewood, sho had lain In his arm for one brief in? stant then she had seemed like some trapped wood-thing resisting. Now, her slender body swaying to his every motion, she was another creature. Un? der the drooping tawny hair her face WB8 almost as pale as the white satin of her gown; her lips were parted, and as they moved, he could feel her heart rise and fall to her languorous breath. (To be Continued.) WARSHIPS THROUGH THE CANAL. Vessels Will Go to Pacific Coast by Panama Early in July, Son Iti<::<\ <';.!., April 12.? United States warships of the Atlantic (teet will steam through the Panama canal early In July, speed up the Pacific coast to San DieffO and return to l hi mpton Roads by the same route, according to Franklin l). Roosevelt, assistant secretary of the navy, who made preliminary arrangements here today for the reception of the bat? tleships. The purpose of this early jaunt throuph the canal, Mr. Roosevelt said, was to prove to the world that the big waterway Is In readiness now to accommodate shipping;. BALL a VMI .s DELAYED. Heavy Rains Prevent Opening of Southern League. Atlanta, April l I.?-Hard rains last night ami today In Atlanta, Birming? ham, Chattanooga and Montgomery, where tin1 opening games with South? ern League are scheduled* rendered it unlikely that the games will i?o play? ed. Women who suffer from the weakness pocallftf to itaeli Deed a vitalising tout* und :> purify la r rcinody. Thli In furnished in vi'? harmless and ven cffecUvo conv DOUad tllftl for 10 .tr baS assisted arut Sgd the approval ol ih msauda ol weisen Is ih< ? sroltnas. Iti action is, Rrst, io remova nil i>lood Imp iritie\, tin d i?energise and rege all ill function! of ib< digestive lystem; tlieu ui feed all serve centers. Wltb Ulli l?r.11 ' bodily functions become n >r mal, pain disappear!, servei un> steadied and lifo becomes worth the living. M.r L>fjour ucighbora have been helped Prj ityoursell and learn how they benefited. Vourdruggistprobablj baslt. 11 not Ul aame and one dollar tor a t>i" n ?ttle to REMEDY SALES CORPORATION, CHARLOTTE, N. C. Irs. Jot Parse h In connection with ibu Itemed) n>r tb< c;irr> ofsorca and tli reliefol Iniaraed aud <? ui)'.< ? ? i rfacps. It iiespeciallj valuable to women, and should alway? be ii*;'?<t for ulcerailons. I N.Il \< Tlo\ AUAIXST liMoiiiis. IVmporary Order [SKUCd at BcsjsmesI Of County \noi n*?y sj1 (?klaliomw. 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