Evening Star Newspaper, January 17, 1924, Page 34

By William S. Hart A Story Filled With Romance and Adventure Copsright, 1923, by Thomus Y. Crowell Co. T i i SYNOPSI In Tumestowen, V + wiction ix buing © ed ot whit s from England who huve been sen e water to be disposed of under indenture <ot a period of years o the planters. Amol pose at e anetion {s the Ais(ress’ Penelooe Tunmors, daugliter of Lord Dunmore, Governo f Virgiila Among the youths ubout her fimothy Lovelace. Ha and e ot in the her wish 1o observe n spring_of 1% man. not auding near, utions. ing one wio merly fishivg, iug son of the forests. A Laicashine girl 15 vl thie ok gud e bids mgainet iy MeCool b J ¢ evldent four of described as the vouths Wt they refuse. 1 Zhts with AcCool and finully drops him it w river. He tien insists that Peoelope’s bid shull be accepted. Ns who have baen o ui the auctfon Kroup y © Kerving Jh while (i’ young men engage Tu th ut the tavern. Frishee satirically ¢ ments on the *‘wild buck of the wouds'' and . Henry assures to bear ber soBg, gume e and the Thor A eelebration is 's twenty first b twgether with bitng, Wshinz frowns upon the Hess'n ton which indicutes that &_the plantations h After the two Amer durk cluude gatliering, th 20 out under (he stars. __(Continued from ¥ they had for the first ind and vital urge that wa & volonial *vein long that pring mornin voi rather the stiil dark- nd glade dripped with the three girls, Penel- Euphenie _and Sheila, sit huddled her in Penelope’s deep four- poster bed and whisper of conguest lover's sigh and subtle speech. “And ol said Euphenie pturously, “but his arms are strongz, s von Kneibling! Je did - of the floo two o the round da and wind hlew No 1 the least.” phenie,” said in ber blue 4 b vou_ him w-—did a with plienie idenly to wgain after such a clapped her hands and enfant.” she longed for mon then th unspeaks But Penelope, covering her rosy mouth with her hand, vawned frank- 1y and smiled at her friends’ ch 5 You do nothing, my dea: she sald slaepily, “but plan the conquest ©f the macaronies. And I fan Phenie, that in thls new gal you'll Bave more than you barg: for. e is a Hesslan to his boot- heels, and I like not the type. But it was & pretty party—and heigh-ho —T am growing old prodigious fast She r .ched and drew the bell rope, and upon the instant there appeared with comb and brush. and towel on arm. the blue-eved lass from casiiire, to attend her browu halr, to apply tions, to stroke fhe @nd to do il with the passionate adoration which her eves had prom- when Mistress Penclopa had tried o hard to bid her from the 2uction block All through the rout she had sat -room adjoining, waiting for this moment of service—tireiess. eager. were gade ready for slum- . the little feet free.of the satin the gay gowns hung on the nd when the three slim forms snuggled safe n Penelope’s big ho snuffed the candles, curtains where the dawn was peeping, and softly withdrew to see that none disturbed the sleepers for at’ least nine long hours. As her gentle hand drew shut the ponderous door Peuclope's voice called “Patience Conwell!"” Mistress.” for—vour—kindness Penelope was sound serving-maid closed and there was said, his mistres beauty I white hand but upon her lp. CHAPTER 1V, Me of the S Patrick Menry Iver Tongue. came back to the ock’s Feather Inn. Ye came fin troad davlight, cantering easily on his friend the good roan horse, with a flower In the turned-up flap of his shabby cap and a bundle underneath his arm. He dismounted In the beaten vard and, leaning In at the door, smiled at th he saw there. For on this occasion none had come out to meet the prospective guest. John Falrweather smoked his long-stem- med pipe, regarding him with friendly eve. Doxay, dy counter whe un- ting the well-worn her father took his toll for ale and food and lodgin iced at nim sideways under the of her dark hair. ve 3 0od morning, Los said Henr: marvelous da #A €004 morning—a good mornin returned Fairweather. But there w that in the tones of his voice which sald it was not so xood a morning as he could have wished The man in the doorway pricked up his ears, as !t were. His bright blue eves, rather small, but deep and sparkling, sharp Rimlets, turned to the lovely face of the girl. “And you, Mistress:" he said, “find you the dzy to your liking?" Now Doxey was sweet and kind, but she was & “king’s man” to her Boot-heels, and there had stirred in Ber a faint resentment at her own championing of this stranger, ever sinca the night when the youns gen- tloman plaved fin t he tap-room, Tharafore she rushed back w strand of hair that fluffed at her pink ear and flecked her cloth of hest flax- linen with a nonchalant alr. “Tt was,” she said, “a moment hence.” Patrick Henry drew his tall form up along the lntel and looked at and ali the riotous devils of had come back into his wlance. 50? And one stranger. passing, and remembering “The Rose and Thorn” and her who sang it, has, stopving for a civil greeting, changed ite face?” Doxev dld not answer, but contin- wed with her dusting. The tavern-keerer, being 2 . man who followed the line of least re- sistance. bustled out to attend to some vamue duty in the nether re- one of his hostelry, leaving the girl ‘o handle this somewhat unweloome guast. Heor keen tongue and her wit were known afar. ¥And you will not even speak to me, today!” went on the man, with a wistful note in the cadence of his voice. Somehow that little note seemed to stand out of the tones of that voice like a spot ¢f color on a gray hackkround. It pinged on a string . Doxey’s heart and made her s again thie same room in shadow. the faint whiteness of her spinnet’s key the circle of light beyond the inner door where the young men played. Her 1ips drooped unconsciously. so subtly moving was that pleading nete. “An will pardon me” she said, *“T will acknowledge my -tack of - eourt but I have reason.” i bt ¢ said Henry. Illg‘h.t. make 80 b;r- o _affect Penelope plishment. | Hoenrs | many | i | that Tan- { drew | drowsy | as v Mut | face the girl shook her head. Bad rather wot’ o a wd rather not.” che said The maa stood for a ong | Without motiop, studying her. i T thouzht,” he said at last, slowly. {that T had found one womlan who {was not Iike ull the Test, who was kind to her heur: core, who had | ‘that most priceless thi IS rare in | jher sex, nelv, nding. 1 found—a marvel.” ul flush rose unde alr skin, dyeln her Where her snowy kerchief cross her bosom to the soft hullows of h I temple Her durk cyes drop shame and he tingers fiddled h the dusteloth. The mobiis iins, owever, set themselves In a line of ubborn Her | [ time the | trom | itly and | in the his, words | i was burned away t roused in her by And now, s shie suid "atrick Henr wod by the linte) 1 still beljev he replied Fe 1:4@ his bunfle, a neat puck i Wrapped in the cool broad l[eaves of | | the mulberry and tied with withes of {some long pale gru¢e, upbn_a deneh | by the door, turned Lo his horse nos- | his eTbow. mounted “and rode without a backward 1ook. loug still' moment Dox I him. noting the grace of his . the straightness of buck {the upright carringe, the caxe with which he swung to every motion of the horse When he [the torest turnpike. was hid in the depth of t edeed so close to the ed und picked up @ left she si tool three the finny upon_ i nd fresh from tri thin=x eried the f: A lout in And she gave Lirw 1 of Doxey ir, inste truth!” them to the serving that moment from i | { | | i | ! she tho ediy, vemembering that in the man's wvoice. irke color on a dull web It perples- stful note a spot of CHAPTER V. \ Riving Sun. e (1o fnft w THE EVENING with Ahat certain word which Foung Corton had flung at him on_John Falrwesther's - sl 1y, the ‘ques- tion of the clergy. That excellent gentry were becom- ing vastly disgruntled over the fa- mous tobacco act. A wordy war of pamphlets had first set the colonies laughing and later stirred up suffi- cient interest to rob itself of ridicule. At that time in Virginia the trade of saving souls was worth sixteen thousand pounds of tobacco bY-the year and every one was satisfied, But—u shoriness of crop had ocea- sioned & change In payment. An aet was passed which stipulated that “ull persons from whom tobacco wus due were authorized to pay the anie either in tobacco or in inoney after the rate of sixteen shillings and “hsht pence per hundred, at the op- tion of the debtor.” Sixteen shillings eight pence—when precious weed rose like a wocket shillings! who had been satisfied before elr stipend were now . indig- holding themselves to have The with thy nant, | been” abused, and the flood of protest and _recrimination which rolled over the Jand was full and bitter. Sheriffs, clerks, uttorneys—all who ¢ ‘tobacco creditors—were caught in the king's net, but it remained for the clergy, who were ever of u quick Wit, to rise in revolt. And this they did with vigor, They did 50 press home upon the public mind the justice of their plea that it seomed for u time as if they Lid ali the best of the argument, and Mr. Lewis, who had defended to the best of hix abilities the cause of the defendants in Ahe test case brought by the Rev. Maury in Hanover county, and which had been ended in a sus- tained demurrer, gave up the cause, ucknowledging defeat. And s0 it came that on a certain @ay when Patrick Henry rode his idle Wiys upon the turnpike he came fuco to face with Mr. Francls Lee nd Col. Danby, both of whom were growers of tobacco. They - decp in worried discussion and it was but natural that, as the three stopped to exchange greetings, the topic dn every tongue should con- tinue to hold their attention. =1 teli vo hor for our livelitood ur increased pro young thus to niled “dryly Perchance, sir.” “St. Peter the gate cd the en- nee fea of prayer and penance.” sently, Mr. Hearv.” Mr. Lee re- proved, “levity s a boomerang, some- man appealed ut the red-faced colonel laughed. T, : hath quit the job, and where re to turn for an abler tongue is bevond me. It savors badly for our cause” Here rick Henry, idly fingering the wisps of Ioanie’s mane; pricked houghts to | For that in th “atrick Henry had long x his mind these ¢ so had heart nd there ut the voung man who idly rode the Dywuys was scruti-| inizing fro all a with de- lighted eyes the weighty matter of { love This was absorbing bustness. 1t did away for a time with his ad- diction to the dog-eared books on law which hie carried in his sagging vockets, When a serious intention assailed him, as it did often with a twinge of conscience, he would settle himself {in some green glade where the birds 1twittered and he could hear the voice {of water and resolutely bend his eyes it the printed page * ¢ * only to| Nave the dull thing fade into a back- | ground for the flashing brilliance of woman's ful face. 1 » did the player of t | him as i« snare! 1 So helplessly dia Iher in spirit: | But that g g6 which ever was (behind his raille told him at length | that this would never do, so he took ito relegating the pleasant dreams to ithe inner depths of his consclousness where they might lie waliting _his voluntary ‘call, and read his Coke | upen Littleton and the Virginia Laws. ~And he had his Livy—tbat | great feeding ground for the hungry |soul wherein a man might vision the ipeaks of human grandeur, drink at the fountain of nobility. 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You lack the education which T have always believed to bo requisite.” The man in buckskins laughed foft- 1y, waving a grandiloquent hand at the univers H “Well, sir,” he sald, “first T went to Tom Jefferson and told him 1 wanted to be admitted to the bar. ‘You're @raduated now,’ says he. ‘I've been studying for six weeks,’ T sald. It took himn some time to get it through his head that it was not a joke, and then he accompanied me to Mr. Pey ton, one of the examiners. And then he ran away and left me—to face tie music alone.” “Yes?" prompted his hearer, what ald Mr. Pevton say?" Again Patrick smiled at the mem- ory. “Ha recalled my indolent vouth, for he well knew my father and all 1 folk, and told me all my shortcor Lee was thinking more “and Child’s tongue shows if bilious, constipated k Baby or Child — Harmless! | Ask vour druggist for genuine ?"( alitfornia Fig Syrup,” which has lof all uges printed on bottle. 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But Patrick Henry had come down to the commonplace ain. “I went before the rest of the ex- aminers,” he continued, “and they asked me many questions, all of which, by the grace of God, I was able to answer. One of them. how- ever, swept a hand at the awesome “Out of hand?” queried the colonel in amaze. “Not exactly.”" sald Patrick. “Mr.. Randolph grilléd me hard. but finally told me that I defended my opinlons well, and that If my industry were but half equal to my genius I would do well und be an ornament to iny profession. He also told me,” con cluded the speaker, his bluo cver sparkling humorously, “that he woula never trust to appearances again. (Continued in Tomorrow's Star.) kled every glade in the forest? ad man might—but not I!” Tee moved his hands upon his horn drew in a dee) shelves of books and informed me, ‘What you do not know of law is there, sir’ But they gave me my license,” ho finished pensively. 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