her to be kept "In." She wan tired of
. being snubbed.
Her brother David, some four years
her senior, made life increasingly lonesome
for Gloria by his freedom and
the superior, worldly airs he assumed
for her especial tcrment. in earlier
years they had been very near to oach
other, and now it was bitter to Gloria's
proud soul to watch David coming
and going at will, dancing every
night, and flirting desperately with
Lois Freeman, whom Gloria did not
like because her brother did.
Oh, yes. David could flirt his head
off, but her father turned white and
her governess turned blue if Gloria
so much as mentioned a lover in a
novel or suggested that she might
have pne herself at some time in that
future which she was waiting for as
the next installment of an exciting
serial. Gloria was woman enough to
resent restraint and child enough to
be capable of making a tragic blunder
if she ever broke away.
Gloria issued a declaration of independence
as soon as she reached her
room. It began with "I'm too old to
have a governess!"
"Thanks!" Miss Sidney snapped.
"You're more than welcome!" Gloria
snanned hnpW "i wo,.* u;
. , ~?W.? m. nuiH l/IIU III11IK
understood. This is the last time I'll .
Btund being treated as a child. I'm
net one. At my age my grandmother
was the mother of my mother, and if
you don't change your treatment of
me I'm going to run away and marry
the first man I meet."
"People who are always going to do
things never do thom," said the governess,
with the primness of a copybook.
"Hut if you're so old and wise
euppose you prove it first by doing
your algebra lesson. It's very sim
pie."
"They never made my grandmother
learn algebra," Gloria protested.
"They never taught her to run an
automobile either."
inais another thing. My brother
has a car of his own and I haven't
even a pushmobile. Half the girls of
my ago have their own motors. I can
run one as wall as any of them. It's
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"Perhaps if you learned your lessons
he might reward you with a car."
This rainbow of hope brought tho
end of the storm. Gloria beamed and
.ran to slip out of her bathing suit and
into her luncheon frock. The governess
almost smiled as she wrote the
problem on the blackboard she used
for Gloria's lessons. When Gloria
' came back Miss Sidney pointed to the
figures.
"It's very simple, my dear," she
said. "You have only to multiply a+
, b by a+b."
"But?"
"Work it out yourself, dear, and call
! me when it is finished."
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Gloria 8lipped Into High J
Gloria stared at the problem and felt
I herself slipping back into childhood'
I at a breakneck speed. She had no,
i more idea of what it all meant than a
new-born babe. She put on a pair of,
! big tortoise shell spectacles, but theyj
made her look younger than ever and
gave her no help. She could see that!
! foolish a+b, but she couid not see why!
anyone should want to know what
would happen if you did such a foolish
thing as to multinlv it hv Haai* I
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When the blackboard blurred before
her eyes she moved to the window and
stared at the glittering merriment of
the crowd. Everybody was at play except
Gloria; people in bathing suits, 1
yachting tlannels, golf togs, tennis '
things, bicycle clothes, motor gear. 1
They streamed along the walks, the
sand, the piazzas, sat in wicker chairs, 1
or rolled along in "afromobiles."
By and by Gloria saw Lois Freeman !
come in from the links. When Dick
Freneau sauntered up Lois deserted .
her father at once. Gloria did not like
the way she ogled Mr. Fr4neau.' Lois
used the same languishing expression*
Gloria had seen her working off
1
4t)?a is a sample. Ok, dear, this awful
algebra."
She stood pouting at life in general
and study in particular. She turned
back to her task and stood in sc melancholy
a posture that Doctor Royce,
passing her window and seeing her,
paused to study her for a moment as
if she were a painted figure in a painted
scene. He thought she was painted
splendidly well. She was so pretty
that she made his heart ache. It ached
for himself and then for her, the poor
little prisoner. He tapped on the window.
Gloria turned and recognized her
visitor. Her eyes twinkled with affection.
She did like Doctor Royce!
David had presented him to her. Doctor
Royce had graduated at David's
college; they were members of the
same fraternity.
"You ought to be out here in ihe
sun," Doctor Royce suggested.
Gloria was shocked at the Idea. She
pointed to the blackboard. "I'm in
Jail for a thousand years. It will take
me at least that long to do this hateful
problem."
Royce could not enter her room to
go to the blackboard, so he asked her
to bring the blackboard to him. She
fetched it Joyously and gave him chalk
and said: "There isn't any answer,
though."
He was too polite to say, "Why, this
Is the easiest thine in t.h? wnrirf " hut
he showed that it was for him by the
speed and smiling case of his chalk
work.
In a moment the riddle was solved.
Gloria understood it a little less than
before, but it meant a release from
captivity, and she was so entranced
that she flung her arms about him and.
gave him a resounding kiss and called
him "a wonderful, marvelous, angaL
man."
To her it was a kiss of childish
gratitude for the help of older wisdom.
Sho hurried the blackboard back
to the easel and began to copy the
doctor's neat figures in her own
Bcrawl.
But Royce stood quivering with the
unexpected attack. He knew that it
was a young girl's kiss given in confidence
and ignorance, and it was
therefore sacred. But he could not
help feeling a thrill of prophetic hope.
on David.
Gloria wanted to run out and warn
poor Mr. Freneau that Lois was a deceitful
minx. Mr. Ferneau had such
lovely, trusting eyes; It was a crime
to lure him on. Gloria meditated.
"They say he's a broker?whatever
that is. I wonder what a broker
breaks?hearts probably, If Mr. FerSoon
she must grow up to womanhood
and?she must love someone, and why
not him? She was very rich, but his
own future was gorgeous in his
dreams, and Gloria was the most
gorgeous thing in his gorgeous
dreams.
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Speed and Sped Away.
Then he reproached himself for the
mood and grew sad at the thought of
the years that must roll over Gloria's
sunlit head before ho could even pay
court to her. And in those years what
dangers might she not encounter?
dangers to her health, her soul, her
happiness? He longod to protect her
through them all.
Me saw that Gloria had already for
suntm mm. an? nad copied his work
and she was rubbing out his calculations.
He wondered if that were
prophetic, too.
*
When Gloria had the blackboard all
shipshape she howled to the governess
to come and see her triumph.
Gloria regretted the deception; but
what other refuge has the weak from
the etrong?
Miss Sidney raised her eyebrows
ind doubtless suspected that Gloria
tiad enjoyed outside aid; but she had
in engagement of her own with the
tutor of a rich young imbecile, and
the pretended to be conv^nced^
Gloria was permitted to call It an
ilgebra lesson, and for a reward she
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THE HORSY HM
was assigned to ttie study of a list of
the English kings. Gloria did not mini
that, for she hid a stolen novel inside
the page and read something far more
important to her than ancient history
?modern romance.
If Gloria had not learned a lesson of
any importance that day. neither had
her elders.
When dinner time came at last Gloria
s maid allowed her to select her
newest Paris gown for dinner. And it
was a pleasant dinner, on the veranda,
with the twilight drawing round like
soft curtains, the lamps glowing everywhere
in the tropical verdure like little
moons, and the glimiftering afro mobiles
spinning everywhere along the
walks.
And there was music. The dancing
was beginning a little distance away.
Gloria tried to sneak a sip of her father's
coffee, but Sidney caught
her at it and took the cup away. But
except for her everything was beautiful
and tender; the very atmosphere
was full of pleasant reveries. And
then Miss Sidney had to look at her
watch and ruin everything with the
insulting word: "Bedtime!"
Gloria pretended not to hear her and
talked vigorously to David. But he
only laughed an elder brother's laugh
and lighted another cigarette. + She
ran to her father and nestled in his
arms. He hugged her close, but. she
could tell that he was afraid cf that
gorgon governess.
"Daddy, darling, let me go to the
dance." He shook his head. "Just
three dances." He shook his head.
"Two? One!" He shook his head.
She knew that the governess had
given him his ordors.
David sniffed. "Little girls aren't
allowed to mingle with grownups after
dark."
Gloria choked for words and threw
him one glance. If looks were smacks
in tho eye he would havo had a good
one. But he only laughed the more
Then her father hardened his heart
and gave her a run-along-now kiss.
She went along, but she did not run.
Once more the rebellion began to simmer
in her brain.
Her helplessness was her chief
grievance. How could a young girl
defend herself from a big governess
and a big maid, a flinty-hearted father
and a brute of a brother? She was
pondering while the maid took off her
dinner gown and hung it up and handed
her her sleeping suit. A pretty
time to go to bed with all Florida calling
to her under the moon!
She said her prayers with an absentminded
lack of conviction and crawled
into bed. The governess and the maid
put out the lights and left her. But
they did not put out the moon.
The governess had a prosaic soul
and she fell asleep in spite of the
moon and the music and the pleading
call of all outdoors. She even snored!
Gloria could stand everything but
that. She stole from her bed and tiptoed
to the governess' room to shake
her and beg her not to play that tune
on her nose. A better idea occurred
to h Ar .Q??*<nor HiQ
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slippers neatly placed on the bedside
rug. Gloria pinned them there, whisked
back into her own room and, flinging
off her bedgear, slipped into her dinner
gown again. She dressed in the
dark and got away safely from her
room.
She was afraid to face the brilliant
lights and the crowd, but she found a
nook on the piazza where she could
peer in at a window and watch the
whirling couples. The tune set her
heart to waltzing and she was so famished
for a dance that when old Judge
Freeman came into sight she asked
him to waltz with her. He shook his
head dolefully.
"I'm sorry, my child, but I've been
sent to bed, too."
She felt sorry for him, but she
wished that people would stop calling
her "my child."
She peeked at the ballroom again
and watched the rivalry of David and
Mr. Ferneau for the dances of Lois
Freeman. The two men were Jealous j
of each other. David was furious,
and Gloria was glad of it.
After a time David had a great
scheme. Never dreaming that Gloria
was just outside the window, within
hearing distance, he asked Lois if she j
would not enicv a Htt.i? rvnnlicr'nt I
spin in his racer. She said that she
would. David said/ "Wait right here,"
and left the ballroom. But Lois did
not waste any time waiting. She beckoned
Mr. Ferneau and told him that
he had a headache and could dance
only one more dance before she said
goodnight. Gloria knew that she wai
killing time till David could get to the
garage and back.
She heard David's car. coining. The
lights almost revealed her on tne piaz- j
za. David stopped the car at a side j
entrance and ran into the hotel for
Lois.
Then Gloria's inspiration came. She
would save David from that siren and i
she would get a bit of moonlight for j
herself.
She dashed across the lawn and,!
stepping into the car. commanded it I
to obey her wild will, and away it:
went like a magic carpet.
Her practiced hands and feet knew |
the steering wheel and the clutch and i
the brakes and all, and there was a 1
rapture beyond words in her power, j
her liberty, her speed. At last she was
being obeyed and not obeying. This
leaping monster outran the greyhound
and bore her down moonlit lanes,
shadowed with palms and beautiful
strange trees and shrubs of exotlQ
shape and perfume.
The road ran along the sea and tha
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waves laughed with her. Out in the
haae she saw a great full-rigged ship
loafing along the gulf stream. But she
was in a better ship.
She could imagine the bewilderment
of David and Lois when they stennod
jut for their clandestine escapade and
found that somebody else had clandes
tinely escaped with the car. She
'.aughed aloud at the picture.
She could imagine that governess
i waking at the racket of her own
j mores and getting up with a start,
:hen deciding to see if Gloria were
still in jail. She could see her putting
ler feet into her slippers and going
!
kerflop! Gloria shrieked at this vision.
It would pay her off for some of
thoso cuffs on the ear t'nat she had
given Gloria. Gloria had been too good
a sport to tell on her, but she had not
forgotten them.
She could imagine the governess
picking herself up and running bare!
foot into Gloria's bedroom?the empty
1 cage whence the bird had flown. She
J could see the panic she fell into and
the funny sight she made in her bathrobe
as she dashed out into the corridor
and hunted for Gloria's father
to give the alarm.
Gloria proved how far she was from
having outgrown her childhood by the
Gloria Found Lessons a Tedious Business.
things that amused and Justified her
fiight. She was a child, but she had
possessed herself of this perilous engine.
She was tlying at forty miles an
hour along almost deserted roads, cutting
through sleeping villages, little
oases in a Jungle that closed more
and more gloomily, threateningly
about the road. She had no Idea of
the time or the distance. She only
knew that at last she was free. At
last she was ruling something.
Then abruptly she lost control of
her magic steed. It ceased to obey
the wheel. It wavered this way and
that with terrifying uncertainty. The
steering gear had broken.
With a sudden sharp swerve the car
shot from the road and out upon the
beach. Paralyzed with amazement
more than fear, Gloria was carried
across me sand straight into the
waves. They rushed toward her as if
the ocean were hungry for her. But
the wheels sank in the wet sand and
the breakers did rot capture Gloria.
They alncost drowned her in their
warm flood, however, and she made
haste to extricate herself and climb
out.
No human being saw that strange
apparition, unless It were Father Neptune,
and he must have thought it was
Venus rising from the sea again?this
time in a very fashionable but very
moist dinner gown. J
Gloria was only the more exultant
from this hew experience. She stood <
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a moment on the car, then Jumped off
and raced a wave tJ the shore.
She found herself In a wilderness of !
sand dunes and mysterious hushes, j
She-plunged among them, thinking;
less cf making her way home than of I
exploring a little deeper thts Eden in*
to which she had stumbled.
She did not know what dangers
lurked on every hand. There were
multitudes of serpents in this Eden?
cold, tierce rattlesnakes under the
most beautiful tlowers. Beneath the
moonlit waters cf little bayous were
llUIierv ftllii?ntnr?* nrwiof >??
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feet the quicksands might open; the
paths ended suddenly in entanglements
of tall sword grass that slashed
the skin at touch.
And deep in the fastnesses were the
remnants of the Seminole tribe who
had fought the whites for years and
ballled them till prefaced treachery
overcame the Indian wiles. The redmen
had never forgiven the whites,
and they regarded their intrusions
with hatred.
As children scamper into bloodcurdling
danger with laughter, so the
child Gloria danced through Paradise
not knowing that she was lost in the
everglades.
(TO BE CONTINUED.)
The Most Unkindest Cut.
The truest and most devoted friend
that mar* ever had is the little inanimate
bundle cf nerves that stands
guard by his bedside through the
dead hours of the nights, its palpitating
little heart spreading cheer and
n ? *
I wimutmue over tne surrounding
I gloom. Yet man often forgets the debt
! of gratitude he owes this faithful and
tireless little friend for the sleepless
watchful hours It subjects Itself to In
order that he may slumber In security
and comfort, and when it sings its
merry morning lay I have seen him,
instead of bestowing fond caresses, j
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ruthlessly and slam it into the farthest
and darkest corner of the room, !
crushing the dainty hands that seemed
uplifted in an attitude of horror and
protection and unworthy reproaches
as these, "Damn that bllnkety-blank
alarm c'^ck anyhow!" then return to 1
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