XXII. THE INSTITUTION OF THE DUELLO 253 XXIII. DOROTHY’S REBELLION 263 XXIV. TO GIVE DOROTHY A CHANCE 27O XXV. AUNT POLLY’S VIEW OF THE RISKS 286 XXVI. AUNT POLLY’S ADVICE 295 XXVII. DIANA’S EXALTATION 306 XXVIII. THE ADVANCING SHADOW 314 XXIX. THE CORRESPONDENCE OF DOROTHY 322 XXX. AT SEA 346 XXXI. THE VIEWS AND MOODS OF ARTHUR BRENT 363 XXXII. THE SHADOW FALLS 377 XXXIII. “AT PARIS IT WAS” 391 XXXIV. DOROTHY’S DISCOVERY 404 XXXV. THE BIRTH OF WAR 424 XXXVI. THE OLD DOROTHY AND THE NEW 429 XXXVII. AT WYANOKE 435 XXXVIII. SOON IN THE MORNING 441 LIST _of_ ILLUSTRATIONS [Illustration] “_Shall we have one of our old-time horseback rides ‘soon’ in the morning, Dorothy?_” (_Frontispiece._) “_Who is your Miss Dorothy?_” (_Page 17._) “_I won’t call you a fool because the Bible says I mustn’t._” (_Page 178._) _Dorothy South._ (_Page 304._) “_In that music my soul laid itself bare to yours and prayed for your love._” (_Page 417._) _“Aunt Polly!” he said abruptly, “I want your permission to marry Dorothy.”_ (_Page 452._) [Illustration: DOROTHY SOUTH] DOROTHY SOUTH [Illustration] I TWO ENCOUNTERS _I_t was a perfect day of the kind that Mr. Lowell has celebrated in song--“a day in June.” It was, moreover, a day glorified even beyond Mr. Lowell’s imagining, by the incomparable climate of south side Virginia. A young man of perhaps seven and twenty, came walking with vigor down the narrow roadway, swinging a stick which he had paused by the wayside to cut. The road ran at this point through a luxuriantly growing woodland, with borders of tangled undergrowth and flowers on either side, and with an orchestra of bird performers all around. The road was a public highway, though it would never have been taken for such in any part of the world except in a south side county of Virginia in the late fifties. It was a narrow track, bearing few traces of any heavier traffic than that of the family carriages in which the gentle, high-born dames and maidens of the time and country were accustomed to make their social rounds. There was a gate across the carriage track--a gate constructed in accordance with the requirement of the Virginia law that every gate set up across a public highway should be “easily opened by a man on horseback.”