The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, July 20, 1916, Page SIX, Image 6
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SYNOPSIS.
Plerpont Stafford, banker and rnllroA*
ftlfilfnil tn h I a alvtoon.x'Anr.oM ilo mrVi.
t?*r. (Jlori.%., is wintering at 1'alm Reach,
Gloria is a vivacious, but willful youns i
lady who clfttfes under the restraining
hand of a governess from whom she re*
peatedly escapes. Her childish capers,
cause young: Doctor Royee to fall In lovf
with her. She steals from her room at
night and in an auto plunges into the
urf where she leaves the cur.
SECOND EPISODE
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' Little Miss Stafford wandering In
m silk frock through the Jungle ol
the everglades at midnight did not
even know that she was lost. The
terrors that were in store for her
she was not imagining. She was still
1 giggling over her imaginations of the
excitement nt Palm Peach when her
governess discovered thai she had run
Avnv
Miss Sidney wok? as Gloria expected.
sprawled as well as Gloria
hoped, her feet on high and the rug
waving in air. She knew who played
the trick and ran into Gloria's room.
She saw that the bod was empty, the
sleeping suit tossed aside, the dinner
gown gone. She flung into her
bathrobe and ran to give the alarm
to Gloria's lather. Her costume made
a sensation even among the sensational
costumes of Palm Peach. She
found Pierpont playing cards with
young Dr. Royce.
What she told them sent them runing
in opposite directions, frightening
the dancers and the loiterers
about the tables in the gardcim and
various couples surprised in loving
embraces among the inviting nooks.
On the lawn the two men came
together and shook their heads in
signal of failure. They saw David and
Lois. David mentioned the less of
hi? automobile. Neither he nor
Pierpont thought of Gloria as the
thief. They continued the search
among the crannies of the enormous
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|| Rut Dr. Rovce had been speaking of
t G.oria's rebellious heart only that
afternoon. He ran at once to a parking
space where automobiles where
kept. The chauffeurs were not about
and he did not pause to haggle. IIo
threw away a "For Hire" card and,
leaping into the saddle, so to speak, of
a six cylinder thoroughbred, dug his I
spurs into its side and piicd the lash. '
The car broke into such a run that
its own chauffeur did not recognize it
as it shot into the main road. Itoyce
checked his speed only when he met
occasional saunterers along the roads.
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She Did Not Like the Manner of the
Boy.
Prom most of these ho got no information.
From one negro on a bicycle
chair he had the comforting answer: !
"Yassa, 1 done seen a bar'headed .
young missy in a auterbile licketty !
split?yassa. She turned sothe at the j
next corner. If I hadn't a throwed j
this year wheel over mighty peart i
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Royce was not interested in the
Negro's might-have-been. He was already
at the next corner, and he turned
south, too.
Now and then a red light ahead
cheered Royce on, hut when he overtook
it it was never on the oar that
carried Gloria.
In ona or two of the villages he
found someone awake who had seen
? young girl or a comet shoot through.
Jble had about decided to turn back
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and endure the laughter that would
greet him. Long ago, no doubt, Gloria
had reappeared and been resentenced
to bed.
But even as he slowed up for the
turn he caught sight of tiro tracks
swerving wildly and turning off hito
the sand between two dunes. He
6hut off his power and set his brakes,
drew into the side of the road, and
Jumped out. ?
He passed the barrier of the dunes
and caught sight of Davids racing
car in the waves. The billows flaming
with moonlight were sweeping
over the little machine with terrifying
ruthlessness, now tossing up spray
which the moon turned to jewelry,
now smothering it all from view.
Rovce gazed aghast. He tore his
hair at the vision. He could almost
see Gloria caught in the wheel and
held fast while sho drowned, slowly
choking.
He was about to dash into the s^a
and fight it for the body of the little
runaway when he saw footprints in
the wet sand.
With a cry of relief Dr. Royce followed
them across the sand to tho
highway. Hut Gloria had not turned
north in the road. She had been
wooed into the dense, lush foliage.
The doctor regarded it with dread.
He could not imagine how tempting
it had been to Gloria's truant heart.
He was afraid that she might have
lost her mind with fear.
He had hardly plunged into the
thicket when he lost track of her.
lie ran Lack, hoping that ho might
find some courier with news. In-'
stead lie met a boy from a pineapple
plantation. Royce hailed him
and learned that he was going for
a doctor. He had hoard and seen
exactly nothing of Gloria.
lie was about to lit the boy go when
It occurred tw hun that Gloria's father
would be frantic for some word of her
whereabouts, lie found a prescription
I>au in his pocket and a bit of pencil
and he wrote a note.
Pierpont Stafford, Royal Poinciana:
I found Gloria's car in the
surf and her footprints leading
Into the everglades. I am following
them, but think you had better
organize searching parties to beat
the whole district.
STEPHEN ROYCE.
Ha gave this to the boy and a bill
from the small roll he found in his
pockets. He made the boy promise
to go to the nearest telephone and
transmit the message to the hotel.
Royce returned again to the chase, increasingly
applied at the thought of
Gloria alone there.
Now and then ho found some hint
of her, a shrctfl of silk from her Paris
frock torn away by a clutching thorn.
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Gloria had not been long in finding
out that there can be too much liberty
as well as too little. No calm wandering
in a dream through nightmareland
could have seen a more fantastic
world than that Florida entanglement.
She was entranced at first, but at ,
length she had had enough.
She had read of people who walked
in circles till they died of exhaustion.
She felt ready to die so already. Put
mainly she was yawning her pretty
head off. She beat about the bush and
said "Shoo!" to any crocodiles or boa
constrictors that might bo in hiding.
Then she stretched herself out and began
a little prayer. She could not
keep awake to finish it. In her sleep
she dreamed herself back in the beautiful
bed she had foolishly left. She
dreamed that she was asleep in her
o*'ii room.
Meanwhile Dr. Royce stumbled and
groped through the jungle in search
of her, and her father and brother
were in conference with the Palua
lieach police.
The message that Royce had given
to the boy from Colohatcliee reached
them a little before dawn. It only Increased
their alarm, but it gave them
something to do. They made no
further secret of Gloria's disappearance.
They called on everybody for
help.
Cara went scurrying along the little
railroad that puehca a short distance
Into the forest; boats of every sort
glided along the draiimge canal; motor
boats, canocs, skiffs, dugouts were
spinning hither and yon among the
thousands of waterways.
David forgot I^ols Freeman and the
engagement he had to play golf with
her that mornings He and his
father had anticipated the dawn in
the bayous.
Frenoau, strolling across the law*
to open the office of the New York
brokers he represented, fownd Lois
Freeman and her father rending the
1 morning pupers. They spoke of the
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? - - - loss
of Gloria and the $5,000 offer
! for hor restoration to teer father.
Preneau meditated. He could use $5,000
or less to great advantage.
When Lois invited him to play golf
he said that he had another engagement.
Whatever motive it was that
moved Freneau, he resolved to forego
his opportunity to eonrt Lois without
the disturbing presence of his wealthy
rival. He bade her good-by, .but he
did not go to his office. He sauntered
to the water's edge and chartered a
motor boat.
Almost everybody in Florida .must
have been aware of Gloria's disappearance
except the family of .shiftless
paupers named Sipe
Gloria had lain down to tfleap dost
about where the Sipo fence would
have been if there had been a fence.
She had not seen their shack beyond
the heavy growth.
When she awoke and yawned and
rubbed her eyes and looked about she
decided that she must have fallen
asleep In the horticultural building at
Bronx park. She rose to her fed ami
limped aimlessly. She caught sigtot of
t*e Sipe hovel. It was a tumbledown
hut. but it looked like the Royal
Polnciana to her. The pigs and the
mangy dogs might have been gazelles
in a park and the ragged man and
woman and boy migrft ha* a been a
group of royal blood.
She ran toward them for shelter.
They received her with stupid wonder
and with no hospitality.
Tho woman upbraided Gloria for
being out in such rags and Gloria offered
to buy anything they had. Mrs.
Sipe refused to sell what she had on,
which was all she had. The only extra
covering was a new suit she was
making for the boy out of some hemp
sacking. Gloria did not want a boy's
clothes, but Mrs. Sine snoornri
they were more decent than what she
had on. Also that she might pass
some rough characters or even some
Seminole Indians on her way back
and that she would be safer as a boy
than as a girl.
This convinced Gloria. She paid for
the clothes with the ring and went
into the shack to change.
When Gloria was dressed the Sipo
hoy was ordered to take her to a path
which would eventH^illy lead her to
the main road.
It was easier walking in breeches
than the skirts she had worn. But
she did not like the manner of the
boy. Me began to pay her crude compliments
and finally grew so impudent
that she boxed his ears. He took hi#
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revenge by pointing her in the wrong
direction. He turned back arid
laughed. Ho had an ill-nourished
sense of humor.
Gloria pushed on and on. growing
more and more doubtful of the way
and dismally footsore.
Suddenly a turn in the path revealed
what she took to be an answer
to her prayers?a horse! It. was a
doleful looking anlnml, yet it was a
horse. She ran forward and spoke
to it soothingly. Rut it harked ar. t
roared. It was not a white man's
horse and it hated the whites even as
its red master had hated theia. fi hereby
hung a tale.
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The family known as tho "Cypress
Wolves" was the sole remnant of
one of the fiercest tribes the paleface
had met In the Seminole wars.
If Gloria Stafford, who was strolling
slowly into tho very heart of the
Cypress Wolf region, Had come among
them? as a young girl in distress,
they would have treated her with
chivalry. Rut her first action outraged
their most sacred Iveliefs.
The old chief Ilitakee of the Cypress
Wolf tribe had more dignity than
, wealth. Put ho owned a horse. It
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iters were bad; but it was at most
the only horse owned by an everglade
, Indian.
\t the very time that Gloria had
been helped to solve her algebra prob>
letns by I>r. Royoe old Hitakee was
i solving all his problems with the aid
| of the medicine man of his tribe. Hs
i d!?*d with grout dignity.
The young brave Katcalani was the
, logical successor to the chiefship. H?
| had his eye on that horse arid
dreamed of himself astride it. The
widow or Hitakee had another idoa.
Shonolakeo was her name. She dlu
I r^t intend that her dead husband
i should walk all the way to the happT
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bunting grounds. In her youth when
the chiefs had horses and rode them,
they rode also to the far-off paradise.
Each chiefs squaw saw to that, for
she cut the throat of his horse and
sent its ghost after Its master's spirit.
Katcclani tried to save Hitakee's
horse from sacrifice, but Shonolakee
( so' fierce and the other squaws
so fierce that he felt his election in
danger.
Just about the time that Gloria
Stafford was feeling her way through
the thickets about the Cypress Wolf
village Shonolakee led the old horse;
out to slaughter. She was weeping i
so bitterly that she did not heed when j
the sacrificial knife fell from her belt. I
She tied the horse, said her prayer.!
and reached for the blade. It was
ion. She turned back to look for it.
She had not gone far when Gloria
Stafford parted the palmetto leaves
and saw before her the steed she had
prayed for. |
She approached with coaxing
words and untied the halter. The
pony shied and tried to caress her
with its heels. Gloria had been well
schooled In horsemanship from childhood.
and she soon had her hands in
the mane of the unvrllling mustang
and vaulted to its back.
She had no sooner set her heels
into its ribs than the old squaw returned
with the recovered knife. She
saw the sanctified charger being carried
off?and by a ragamuffin evidently
from one of the white trash families
that even the Seminoles despised.
She gave a wild cry of alarm, the
fierce "Yo-ho-ee-hee!" that had one?
made the Indian-hunters' blood ran
cold. The tribe answered in wondering
haste. She pointed to Gloria and
the vanishing horse. It was not vanishing
very fast, for the wilderness
was thick and Gloria did not know
tho way. The Seminoles divided and
ran in various directions to head her
olY.
In a few moments the rrrnig chief
himself leaped from ambush, and
caught the horse by the nose and ear.
The old squaw was not far behind and
Gloria was dragged to the ground and
threatened with the death of a thief?
a sacrilegious thief.
Old Shonolnkee raised her knife and
was about to plunge it into the heart
of the shivering captive when something
about the captive made her
pause. She saw that tdie lad was a
lass. Her rage was forgotten in
amazement for a moment. She
grunted: "The boy is one squaw."
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The other Indiana starea at Gloria
and the pallor of her horror was red- !
dened with shame. The blush was
rrry becoming to her. The young
chief stepped forward for a closer look
at it.
Thinking him a possible rescuer
Gloria turned on him one of her
ninety candlepowor smiles. The effect
was greater than she had ex
pected. Katcalani was dazzled. He
blinked, then turned his eyes on the
smoky Indian maidens clustered about.
Each of them had ambitious dreamt
of being his wife. But shabbily at
Gloria was dressed she was a tearing
beauty in any company. Compared
to the unkempt daughters cf the everglades
she was a goddess.
Katcalani's heart beat with a new
kind of excitement. IIo resolved to
begin his new chieftainship with aa
act of courage. He would defy not
only the m?n, but even the women!
He seized Gloria's hand and shouted: '
"If boy is squaw ho is my squaw."
Gloria did not understand the mean*
ing of this. Put she saw that it had
not endeared her to the Indian women.
They murmured their wrath and would
have struck her down if Katcalanl had
not protected her. She drew closer
to him and he took that for consent.
They led her into the village, a
huddled group of palmetto leaves.
Shonolakee first went aside and1
sent the dead chief's horse on the long
road to the happy pastures. Then
she returned to prepare Gloria for the
honor of becoming the wife of the
chief. She led her into her own hut
and gave her the habMlments of an
hor est squaw in place of the boy's diegraceful
togs. Seminole ladles are
modest. Then she showed Gloria a
little sewing machine. She had
bought it with the proceeds of rattlesnake
skins she bad sold to tourists
In the village along the railroad. She
promised Gloria that some day if she
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were good she might be allowed to
play on the machine. The squaw's
idea of being good consisted largely
.of doing heavy labor. The first duty ,
of a wife was to gather wood for the
fire. She set Gloria to work.
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Royce was not the only one in the
everglades hunting the estray. Fro- 1
nenu had gone as far as his motor !
boat would carry liiin. Then he had
found a native Indian with a dugont, |
a cypress log hollowed. The Indian
drove it with a pole, lie nad heard
nothtng of Gloria's presence in the
thicket, but he promised to guido
Frenenu to some of the scattered villages.
Meanwhile Dr. Rovce, hunting in (
every direction, had happened upon |
i he home of the Sipes, and had asked j
about Gloria. Fearing that he had
come to demand the return of Gloria's j
jewels they pretended not to have f
s?on her. I Tut Royce caught a (
glimpse of Gloria's evening dress, (
which Mrs. Sipe was trying to hide, j
He charged the Sipes with deception,
probably with murder.
They hastened fo confess that they )
had seen her and helped her on her \
way i 11 the clothes of a boy. They i
sent young Sine to show Royce which \
way Gloria U^d gone. Young Sipe, ^
still angry at Gloria and his parents, t
s?!it Rovce in a false direction, too.
lie laughed as ho saw the crazy f
stranger in that tattered evening dress ^
ploying his blind man's buff, not, i
knowing that rivals were searching i
the wilderness, and knowing that {
Gloria was now in Indian servitude. ! ;
The young chief. Katcalnnl, kept t
watching Gloria. Her whiteness, her t
delicacy, the unconscious daintiness i
with which she lifted the crooked
faggot from the brushwood, and the <
luxurious aureole of her hnlr in the 1
Florida sun, made him frantic to call 1
her his own. He beckoned her to fol- ]
low him and led her to a distance /
v here the shambling, dusky women 1
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<ji mis inuu cuuiu nui see n:m now j
his turbaned head to the chalk-faced <
squaw. ]
Gloria hoped that the peculiar per- I
son was going to help her to escape, i
and she followed him with only a i
little fear. But he paused and began i
to declare his passion with all an In- 1
dian's eloquence.
His dialect was crude, hut his emo- 1
tion was fierce. He compared
her with the most graceful palm, with 1
the rarest orchids. He said that the 1
sunrise was in her hair and the stars
in her eyes. He compared himself
with the great warrior Osceola, who 1
had slain so many whites. He offered
to kill all the white men in Florida
to please her. He spoke of his wealth.
His turban had a sliver band made
out of four silver dollars. He had a i
gold watch, sixteen handkerchiefs, and
eighteen shirts. He had six of them,
on. Gloria should have his grandmother's
forty pounds of beads to
wear?she should be a queen and she
would not have to plow.
Gloria had often dreamed of her
first proposal of marriage. This was
it. It did not accord with her dreams, j
f?lie was disgusted, aghast, afraid, j
She could think of nothing to do.
She caught sight of the dagger
that Katcalani wore in his belt. In!
a sick horror of her fato she snatched
It from him. She had not the courage!
to kill herself, or him, but she gave
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plunge It Into her heart. Katcalani
glared at her In a frenzy of humiliation
and wrath. Then the child
woman wavered on her tired feet and,
suddenly dropped to the ground in a
dead faint.
Isaloalani's rolling eyes made out a
startling vision. Dick Freneau wae
standing before him. The Indian guide
had put him ashore near the village
and was waiting for him to make In
pulrios. Preneau had pushed through
the palmettos just In time to set
Gloria swoon. He recognised hei
by her fair skin and her bright hair.
He approached Katcalanl to olaim her
and the reward. *
Hut the young chief was in no mood
for a parley. Ho gnashed his teeth and
threatened Froneau with such blood
thirsty fury, that Froneau fell back.
Ho felt bis hair rise and his scalp al-.
ready going. Ho retreated in sncb
haste that Katcalanl did not pursue
hkn far. He stood watching for him
to reappear.
Meanwhile, by another roundabout
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I land path, Dr. Hoyco had found tlie I
I Seminole village. He Raw Gloria I
I whore she lay on the ground. lie I
I thought hor some young Indian I
H maiden asleep. He paused to Make I
I her and ask if she had seen Gloria.
I Before he could stoop to lift her he
Itaw Katealani turn and stare, 'i he
He dodged the blade, clutched the
lie Indian was agiie aB a panther, and
le rolled over. Then Hoyee was on
op, thon the Indian hroke free. Then
ho men circled and feinted and finally
dinched again, went to earth again,
oiled, broke, rose, and clinched, cursng
and grunting in mortal hatred.
Freneau from the thicket where he
lid witnessed the fight; watched it in
ascination a moment. At length,
seeing that the battle had carried
he two warriors away from Gloria's
ricinfty, he made so bold as to run
o where she lay, and pick her up.
Her eyes opened. She found herself
in his arms. She stared, then
'ecognized him. He was like a
escuing nngcl. She embraced him
with a little wall of gratitude and
tdoration. She had not seen Royce
it all. Freneau led her away from
he struggle down a twisting path to
ho landing place, where the SemiioIc
guide waited for him.
He helped Gloria into the canoe and
ordered the guide to push out into the
bayou. If he felt any impulse to go
back to the aid of Royce, he suppressed
It, for Gloria's Hake. He neglected
even to mention that Royce
was even then in a death grapple with
Kat'-alnnl. It would only have excited
the trembling child still further.
Indeed, when Gloria poured forth her
gratitude to Freneau for his fearless- i
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3ho\iklers and smiled. He was too
much the gentleman to contradict a
lady.
The Indian pulled his dugout along
the tortuous channels, until finally it
was hailed from the shore. Gloria's
father and brother had caught sight \
of them.
When Gloria was landed and in her
father's arms, she told what hideous
danger Mr. Freneau had saved her
from. Then Pierpont embraced the
young man. and David wrung his
hands, forgetting that they had lately
been jealous rivals for Lois Freeman's <
Bmiles.
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Rovee and Katealani fought on
without thought of truce. Katealani
could have brought help by crying out,
hut he had the knife and he would not
bring his people to see him worsted
by an empty handed white man.
Iioyee had the skill of a college wrestler,
the coolness of a surgeon, and the
determination of a lover. Put he was
dulled with fatigue and wearing down
rapidly. At last, however, lie broke
free and stood off for a moment's
breath. Katealani, dripping with
sweat, and a little dizzy with the
struggle, went at him to finish him.
He ran like a wolf and leaped like
a wolf. But he ran straight Into a
moat beautiful uppercut. Before the
point of his knife could rear-h Dr.
Royce, the point of his Jaw met
Royce's fiat. The world went to
pieces in an earthquake, {jnd it was
some minutes before Katcalanl found
himself lying flat on hia back with no
enemy In sight.
Royce had picked up the knife and
turned to Gloria. Sbe was not there.
He nearly fell down with amazement.
Then he caught sight of something
moving near the water's edge. He
staggered as Cast as he conld through
the underbrush He reached the shore
in time to see Gloria and Freneau In
the dugout Just rounding a barrier of
saw grass. He ran along the shore,
trying to get near. He was glad that
she was sate, and It cheered him
no little to feel that he had been able
to do something to earn a place in
her heart
He hurried on and on. At last he
came to a clearing and found the
StafTords holding a family reunion.