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The Valiants of Virginia

Chapter 3 THE NEVER-NEVER LAND

Word Count: 1672    |    Released on: 06/12/2017

oss-street and circled into the yawning mouth of his garage. Here, before

e lately, and I'm uncertain about my plans. I've made arrangements to turn the car over to the manufacturer

e check's figures. Embarrassment was burning his tongue. "I-I've hea

iant, as he shook hands, "a

ey'll try to take the boodie away from him, I guess. The papers seem to think he's rotten, but he's been a mighty good boss to me. He's a de

his bachelor apartment a fortnight ago. The cavernous seats of the lounge were all occupied, but he did not pause as he

ing the letters on the magazine-littered table. He had s

able faculty of forgetting, and the multitude of sins that wealth may cover. To preserve at whatever personal cost the one noble monument his father's genius had reared, and to right the wrong that would cast its gloomy shadow on his name-thi

part in an over-sea city as far away as the moon (he was later to identify this as Paris) and who, when she came home-which was not often-took him driving in the park and gave him chocolate macaroons. He had always held her in more or less awe and had breathed easier when she had departed. She had died in

re had come to him at that moment the dearest

and papers, that through some baleful and mysterious spell could not be made to open at all hours. When the hands pointed right, however, there was the "Open Sesame"-his own secret knock, two fierce twin raps, with one little lonesome one afterward-and this was unfailing.

r his own sh

Wishing-House,

quite unrecognizable as

, Master;

ver Land, and before them reared the biggest house in the wor

dden delicate lights and filmy colors. What had been but blurred under-exposures on the retina of his bra

he had thought must own the vast hotel in which they lived (in such respect did she seem to be held by the servants), who wore crackling black silk

e sleepy, and all these his father knew by heart. They lived in little square huts around Wishing-House, made of sticks, and had dozens and dozens of children who wore no clothes and liked to dance in the sun and eat cherries. They were very useful barbarians, too, for they chopped the wood and built the fires and made the horses' coats shine-for he a

as always the harrowing fear that one might inadvertently be left out, and sometimes they couldn't remember the last one till the very final minute. After the Christmas turkey, the oldest and blackest savage of all would come in where his father and he sat at the table, with a pudding as big as the gold chariot in the circus, and the pud

pell had failed and the door had refused to open for a long time, when dread things had been happening that he could not understand, when a big man with gold eye-

im and he had gone close up to the bed, standing

ery tense and anxious, very distinct. "John,

Wishing

d then, ever so little,

ou, and let us find it!" His voice had tr

, but it was still distinct. "I can't go to the Never-Never Land. But you may sometime. If you ... if you do, and if you find Wishing-House, remember th

, fa

the eye-glasses had com

ight, f

room and his father seemed all at once to have fallen asleep. And he

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1 Chapter 1 THE CRASH2 Chapter 2 VANITY VALIANT3 Chapter 3 THE NEVER-NEVER LAND4 Chapter 4 THE TURN OF THE PAGE5 Chapter 5 THE LETTER6 Chapter 6 A VALIANT OF VIRGINIA7 Chapter 7 ON THE RED ROAD8 Chapter 8 MAD ANTHONY9 Chapter 9 UNCLE JEFFERSON10 Chapter 10 WHAT HAPPENED THIRTY YEARS AGO11 Chapter 11 DAMORY COURT12 Chapter 12 THE CASE OF MOROCCO LEATHER13 Chapter 13 THE HUNT14 Chapter 14 SANCTUARY15 Chapter 15 MRS. POLY GIFFORD PAYS A CALL16 Chapter 16 THE ECHO17 Chapter 17 THE TRESPASSER18 Chapter 18 JOHN VALIANT MAKES A DISCOVERY19 Chapter 19 UNDER THE HEMLOCKS20 Chapter 20 ON THE EDGE OF THE WORLD21 Chapter 21 AFTER THE STORM22 Chapter 22 THE ANNIVERSARY23 Chapter 23 UNCLE JEFFERSON'S STORY24 Chapter 24 IN DEVIL-JOHN'S DAY25 Chapter 25 JOHN VALIANT ASKS A QUESTION26 Chapter 26 THE CALL OF THE ROSES27 Chapter 27 BEYOND THE BOX-HEDGE28 Chapter 28 NIGHT29 Chapter 29 AT THE DOME30 Chapter 30 THE GARDENERS31 Chapter 31 TOURNAMENT DAY32 Chapter 32 A VIRGINIAN RUNNYMEDE33 Chapter 33 THE KNIGHT OF THE CRIMSON ROSE34 Chapter 34 KATHARINE DECIDES35 Chapter 35 "WHEN KNIGHTHOOD WAS IN FLOWER"36 Chapter 36 BY THE SUN-DIAL37 Chapter 37 THE DOCTOR SPEAKS38 Chapter 38 THE AMBUSH39 Chapter 39 WHAT THE CAPE JESSAMINES KNEW40 Chapter 40 THE AWAKENING41 Chapter 41 THE COMING OF GREEF KING42 Chapter 42 IN THE RAIN43 Chapter 43 THE EVENING OF AN OLD SCORE44 Chapter 44 THE MAJOR BREAKS SILENCE45 Chapter 45 RENUNCIATION46 Chapter 46 THE VOICE FROM THE PAST47 Chapter 47 WHEN THE CLOCK STRUCK48 Chapter 48 THE SONG OF THE NIGHTINGALE