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SYNOPSIS.
Plerpont Stafford, banker and railroad
magnate, w ith his rlxteen-year-old ;
'daughter. Gloria. Is wintering at Pnlm ;
Beach. Gloria Is a vivacious but willful <
young lady who chafes under the re
.BirtuiuiiK cami 01 k Rdvei ih-ss nuui niivm
' he repeatedly escapee. Her childish capers
cause young I>ootor Hoyce to fall In
love with her. She steals from her room j
at night and in an auto plunges Into the
surf, where she leaves the car Becoming
lost in the everglades she falls Into the
hands of the Seminole Indians. She ?<
'rescued and returned to her fatlver, who
had offered a reward for her return. Olo- ,
rla falls In love with her rescuer, Frenoavi. j
Five years later she leaves school and !
meets Kronenu at the theater; his at- j
.tentlon having been occupied with her j
sister-in-law he has forgotten Gloria.
FOURTH EPISODE
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Gloria went as If blindfolded
through the glittering throngs in the j
corridor of the Metropolitan. It was !
a cruel humiliation to her young heart
not even to be recognized by the man
she had waited for through five eternal
years, the man she had loyally
considered herself engaged to all that
time.
nut rreneau was not long in mining
out his mistake. Gloria had run away
from her father to run to Freneau,
only to run away from him in turn, i
Old Stafford, looking for Gloria, en- .
countered Freneau, shook him warmly
by the hand and asked: "Have you
seen my daughter?"
Then he realized with a shock that ;
the man Freneau was engaged to his i
daughter. and that tho respite of five
years was up. Tho mortgage on
Gloria's heart was due. Stafford
glowered at the handsome young
enemy of his happiness.
But Freneau had suddenly realized 1
that Gloria was Gloria. lie made
haste to pursue her. He caught her 1
just as she paused at the door of the
Stafford box and put up her absurdly 1
small handkerchief to catch the ab- 1
surdly large tears as they escaped 1
over her pink petal cheeks. ;
Freneau deftly turned his slight 1
into a compliment ? '
i "Miss Staffprd?Gloria! I was so
dazzled when I saw you that I couldn't
Apeak. You were tremendously pret- 1
ty as a?as a kid; but now, with your 1
hair up and all this grandeur on,! J
'you're?you're a goddess. And you're 1
mine, aren't you? You're still mine!" . His
impetuous charge staggered her, 1
but she was too deeply hurt to forgive
him at once. She shook her
head dolefully and punished him with 1
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imiiun laiuci 111*111 Willi UU^l'l . Ill
spite of all he could say she slipped 1
into the box, closed the door almost '
on his fingers and vanished.
He cursed his stupidity and turned
away. He joined a group of men
seated in a box. among them his partner,
Frank Mulry. who was beaming
like a full moon v rpped up in broadcloth
and white linen. FYeneau began 1
peering about the house through his
Ho Lost No Time in Preambles.
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opera glass. He fastened them on j
Gloria where she sat brooding bitterly.
The first great meeting with her lover
had failed to live up to the dreams
she had been cherishing for five years.
Her father leaned over and tried to
interest her in the opera.
" 'Boris Godunow' is iny favorite
opera," he said, "and Amato is in
splendid form tonight."
But Gloria hardly heard the sonorous
orchestra or the thundering
chorus. The music was little more to
her than a loud wind blowing about
her the ashes of her dead romance.
By and by the opera glasses went
roving idly along the boxes. They
suddenly brought Freneau before her
with a Jump. He seemed very near and
the lenses of his opera glasses were
like eyes staring into her own. She
eoiUd not help smiling back into his
appealing smile. Indeed, when he began
signal her to meet him in the
[porridor she was tempted to consent.
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vlotion
To the girl just out of school that
would be a frightful adventure, more
exciting than her wanderings in the
.everglades and her capture by the
Seminoles.
She shook her head at Freneau and
turned to see what her father thought
of her flirtatiousness. She saw why
he liked "Roris Godnnow" so much.
Tie had never slept better. Now, with
her chaperon goue to Dreamland, it
looked to Gloria an if Providence
meant that she should pursue the adventure.
She did not know th^t l>ois Stafford, ;
seated in David's box, was taking in ,
these wireless signals from one side !
of the horseshoe to the other. She
did not see how Ix>is glowered at
Freneau's alluring grin; how fiercely
she frowned when Freneau rose And
left the box, and how frantic she was
when Gloria nroso and left hers. For j
Gloria, seeing Freneau go. hesitated
only a moment, then rose and stole
away. too. leaving her father in a
peaceful slumber which all the clamors
of the Russian opera could not
disturb.
Outside the Stafford door Frencau
waited in ambush. He was rewarded
by the appearance of Gloria. He was
so delighted that when she asked
him why he had motioned to her to
meet him he could tliuik of nothing
better to sav than: "I thought you
might be hungry. There's the buffet
upstairs."
Gloria smiled and understood ami
accepted the challenge. She said she
was famished. The corridors and the
massive stairway were empty at this
time and they scampered up to the
refreshment, room like children.
Gloria was enchanted by the array
of cakes and oecame hungry in the
presence of the feast. She poked her
finger at the most toothsome
"Give me this, give me this; one of
these, two of those and a chocolate
\nd plstache ic? cream?and some
lemonade."
Love had evidently not ruined her
young appetite. t, ?.
Freneau led her to a table and they
began to renew old acquaintance. She ,
renewed her five-year-old expression
of gratitude to him for rescuing her
Prom the Indians, and he had neither
the courage nor the honesty to admit
that it was not he but Dr. Royce
who had fought the chief to a liestill.
Freneau and Gloria had many things
to discuss, but ne did not tell her all
the mischief ho had been up to in
the five years' test. That went without
saying. They did not know that
the room filled up with a chattering
mob when the curtain went down, nor
that the chattering mob disappeared
when the curtain wont up again.
Oiar'a prattled on, munching her
cakes and ice and sipping her lemonade.
Suddenly she felt her ear seized
in a familiar grasp. Her father had
wakened with a start when the orchestra
quit playing. He had blinked
about in the sudden bright lights and
missed his daughter. She was lost in
tlie mazes of the opera house. Ho
was tempted to offer a reward for
her, as he had when she decamped
into the everglades.
He decided to search first for her
himself. Ho found the estrav in the
deserted buffet, spooning up the last
of her ice cream and the best of Freneau's
flatteries. He dragged her out
of heaven. She fought him all the
way down the stairs, but he would not
let her go. He would not let Freneau
come near.
At the next intermission her father
tagged along like a younger brother.
Refore she could get to Freneau her
sister-in-law, Lois, captured him. Lois
rebuked Freneau for his attentions to
Gloria, and reminded him of his oaths
of fidelity to her own unfaithful self.
He made light of his interest in Gloria
and was avowing his devotion to LiOis
when her husband appeared at their
elbows.
They masked their confusion &fl
best they could and Frenoau sauntered
away. David glowered after
him and glared at his wife. He had
not forgotten that FYeneau had been
his rival for Idols' fickle heart before
they were married. He did not dream
how deeply she was involved with
r reneau now; Dill tn? Ilrst seed or
suspicion was sown. Lois' father,
Judge Freeman, had not forgotten
Lois' early Infatuation for the young
broker, who had & gift of making
women reckless. He saw how David
was miffed. He saw also how Gloria
tried to reach Freneau, only to lose
him in the crowd. The Judge was
trained in observing human nature.
He even ventured to speak to Gloria.
"I wouldn't think too much of that
Freneau follow if 1 were you, Gloria.'
"But you aren't me, are you, judge?"
Gloria answered impudently, and the
judge retired, mumbling: "No! I'll
THE HOMY HEB
I have to admit that."
| Then Pierpont came tip and com
pelled Gloria to go back and listen
to mere opera, when she wanted tc
hear Kreneau's glorious voice. When
the last curtain fell and the multitude
flooded the corridors she did not get
a glimpse of hiin. Her father kept
watch over her and Gloria went home
| amazed at the cantankerous meddlesomeness
of parents in love affairs.
She told her father that he ought
to be in better business than playing
the demon chaperon, but he only
smiled. She was all he had and he
wanted to keep her to the last moment.
He wanted also to make some
investigation of Freneau's behavior
and his reliability as a Bon-ln-law. H*
J had heard but little about him, but that
j little was not good.
The n-ext day a rescuer appeared in
unexpected guise. Her aunt, the great
Hortensla Stafford, called to see her,
raved over her beauty and hailed her
as a graduate from the ranks of girldom.
"You must have a coming-out pari
ty," she said, "and take up the duties
of womanhood.."
Pierpont violently Insisted that
Gloria was only a child. But he was
only a father and merely a brother
to Hortensia, so she waved him aside
as a nuisance. Gloria embraced her
fervently and thought her an angel.
She changed her mind when it came
to sending out the invitations for the
debut, for Aunt Hortensia was a stickler
for social selectness and she loved
to blue-pencil doubtful names.
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vjiwiiu, liiaue uui a use or inose sho
wanted. There were dozens of girl
friends and a few young men she had
known from bnby-carriage days. She
wrote among these the name Richard ;
Freneau with loving flourishes. Aunt I
Hortensla ran liim through with one !
straight thrust of her deadly blue
pencil. Gloria protested, but Horten- j
eia answered:
"I don't know him. I don't wish to j
know him. You have no time to know ;
him. Who is he?"
When Gloria started to toll her she
would not listen, and Pierpont had one
cheerful moment. Gloria, however,
would not let her lover be snubbed so
arrantly. She know that argument
with this imperative relative was
worse than useless, so she merely nod- :
ded her head in obedience and sat
about to circumvent her. fluttering
about again while her aunt returned
to her own list. Gloria annexed an !
invitation, an envelope, and a pen. and
the deed was done. An invitation to
Mr. Richard Freneau reposed in tho
basket with those all ready for the
mail, and with elaborate innocence
Gloria danced over to her ignorant
relation.
When that invitation was received
at the office of Freneau & Mulry it
seemed like a message from heaven :
to the almost broken brokers Th?
business was in fearful shape and
they were about ready to close up
Gloria Tried to Dod
shop unless some miracle should occur
to tide them over.
Mulry had hoen pacing the floor,
discussing ways and means; Freneau
was disgustedly beating a tattoo on
the desk, when the office boy entered
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large envelope. Opening it. Freneau
read that Mr. Pierpont Stafford and
Miss Gloria Stafford requested the
pleasure of his company at a debut
dance on a certain afternoon,
j Freneau proudly showed it to Mulry.
Mulry blew a long whistle and said:
"What right have you got to get this?"
"I saved her life," Freneau replied.
Mulry laughed, "Ah, go on." When
Freneau told him his version of the
) story, vividly describing how little
i Gloria had been lost in the everglades
J of Florida and taken prisoner by a
tribe of Seminoles, and how Freneau
had tracked her through the wilderness
and saved her from the young
! chief who was determined to make
' the girl his squaw, Freneau's language
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had all the vividness that only fiction
. achieves. But Mulry still laughed:
i "You never saved a kitten from a
poodle." He knew Freneau.
i Freneau was furious, but Mulrj
> looked him up and down with a con
teraptuous admiration. Then, sober
ing quickly, and taking the invitation
from Freneau's hand, he slapped hln
on the back and said:
"The main thing is that she thinks
you saved her, so it's her turn to savt
you. Marry her quick! We can bor
row a big wad on your father-in-law'f
mere name."
Freneau saw the point and prom
Ised. His triumphant smile did nol
last long.
His mind shifted back and forth
like a shuttlecock, weighing all the
chances. There was his entanglement
with Ix)is. What a double-dyed fool
he had been to flirt with Gloria's sister-in-lpw!
How very careless of him!
She might spoil everything. She would
be bound to see and know something
of his courtship.
He felt sure he could win Gloria
over again as he had won her heart
five years before, provided he could
still pose in the light of a courageous
and faithful suitor. But Lois must be
kept from ruining everything. His
host chance lay in speed, he thought,
and his ability to keep Lois quiet.
His face cleared and his most
charming smile was turned to Mulry;
"All right. We'll marry her."
Standing at the head of the famous
Stafford stair, in lino with her aunt,
her girl friends, and Lois, was the
most exquisite debutante of the season.
Aunt Hortensia had seen many
in her long life, but she heaved a
I small, polite sigh of great pride and
contentment as she glanced over the
I imperious young figure at her side.
Miss Stafford had Insisted that simplicity
be the keynote of her niece's
attire at this afternoon reception in
her honor; but the cunning of the
dressmaker had contrived to cause
the appearance of simplicity over a
most complicated study in beauty line.
Yet above the wealth of fabric the
Joyous youth of Gloria shono forth
transcendent.
The house was so filled with flowers
sent by admiring friends and hopeful
suitors, that the affair was like a
merrymaking in the gigantic conservatory.
At the loot of the steps stood
a footjnan. resplendent in powdered
hair, with silk stockings, red velvet
coat and kncebreeches. At the edgo
of the receiving line the old butler,
Griggs, kept calling each guest's name
clearly and distinctly, so that the
hostesses need not puzzle their wits
over who was who. ,
Gloria's heart pounded proudly beneath
her chiffons, it was not half
bad to be a young queen in one's own
palace and at last to be considered a I
real part of it. Yet as guest after
guest was presented to her aunt she
gave each only an instant's graciousness,
then her eyes went beyond and
her ears strained for the magical
oft the Gnatlike Suitors.
name of hor iflol?Freneau.
She did, indeed, give a little extra
honor to one old friend. As Dr. Royco
mounted the stairs Gloria ran forward
from the line to greet him specially.
She presented him to her aunt, and
his heart glowed warmly with Gloria's
welcome. Aunt Hortensia's keen eyes
lit up with pleasure as she greeted
him, too, for something about the look
of his eye and the grip of his hand
gained her worldly wise favor. But
Gloria's affection for Royce was not
lore, and when he turned back to her
for a word he found her distrait. He
sighed and passed on to Lois, waving
her little hand to someone in the
arcending stream of guests.
When Dr. Royce had shaken hands
with the rest of the hostesses he saw
Krene&u already holding Gloria's hand.
There was an expression of ownership
on his face, and he made no bones
about incidentally holding up A line
of indignant guests. Royce saw th?
look of adoration In Gloria's coun
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tenanre, and he burned with righteous
Jealousy.
From this time on through the entire
afternoon Royce made himself a
Nemesis on the trail of Richard Frencau.
Through the ballroom, the tearoom,
the library and conservatory
Royce followed the Gloria-hunting
man. He could not do much, but he
hoped to shame Froueau a little, auc
he put all his contempt into his eyes
! whenever Freneau's attempts to get a
j word alone with Gloria became too
flagrantly expressive.
The chase was watched also by another?the
terrified, conscience-haunted
wife of David. Lois had given up
j her peace and happiness and her respect
of self for the prize that she
now saw being taken from her. She
felt no repentance, but only a helpless
rage.
Gloria had counted on dancing the
I first dnncp with Mr. Freneau. She
i was so beset with wooers that he
could not roach her. lie was not the
only man in New York willing to
make lovo to the heiress of the Stafford
wealth, who was. incidentally,'
dowered in her own right with a beau- '
ty and magnetism that would have'
mean! a fortune to any girl.
Gloria tried to dodge the gnatliko
suitors: "May f have this dance? The
next? The one after that, then?"!
They followed her among the pillars
about the ballroom floor. They cornered
he** at la^t, and Dr. Royce con-'
fronted her. She was about to take !
him in desperation when she saw Froneau
at her shoulder.
He was the man of men, but a sudden
shyness overwhelmed her. Her
betrothal to him had not yet beon ratified
again, and she was afraid to let
everyone see her choose him. Her
humid eyes caught sight of her father,
who was smiling in the hope that
there waR security in numbers. She
made a dive at him and made him
her beau. Everybody admired her
tactful choice: hut Pierpont knew
more about investments than about
the fox trot, and he had more rheumatism
in his muscles than grace. He
made a sorry figure in the crowd of
i dancers, and finally collapsed in
i Royce's arms. Gloria giggled.
"I turn him over to you, doctor."
Rovce laughed till he saw that she
; surrendered herself to Freneau. Then
: he frowned. He was in a miserable
dilemma. He could see that Freneau
cast a spell over the young soul of
Gloria, and he knew him to he unworthy
of the girl's trust. Rovce
' knew that Freneau was a cad. He
had stolen from Royco the fruits of!
i his victory over the Indian chief,
i Royce had fought for Gloria and for
! his own life while Freneau carried
her off. And now Royce wanted to.
j save nor rrom rreneau ns ne naa1
! saved her from tho Seminole. But,
j alas! this was quit* another matter,
1 for Gloria did not want to be saved.
Royce could not bring himself to
declaring the truth of the matter, for
ho could not endure to exploit his own !
prowess. Ho know enough of tho
world, too, to know that if he wont
I to Gloria with criticism of her cavaj
lier, he would only add to Francau the
i charm of persecution. He was in the
! presence of a complication of dangcrj
ous symptoms, and ho did not know
j how to act to prevent their developing
into a plague of troubles. He could
only do what he could to keep Freneau
assured that his conquest of the
young girl's heart would not be opposed.
'
Suddenly a careless glance at T/>is
gave him a start. She was In such
distress that he moved to her to offer
his help. She was watching Freneau
dance with Gloria. She saw how content
they wore together and her heart
turned siek. Rut hefore Havpa rnnld
i reach her a determined youth cut In
on Gloria's dance with Freneau and
dragged her from his arms for the
rest of the dance. Then Freneau hurried
to Lots.
Instantly Lois was better, smiling
once more, for now It was she whom
1 Freneau encircled with his arm and
> piloted through the skipping and gild'
Ing traffic on the ballroom floor.
Freneau held Lois tightly and whls1
pered to her honeyed lies. He explained
that he had to be polite to his
hostess and that Gloria was a dear
1 child, but, of course, she was nothing
1 to him, while Lois was all in all.
1 And Lois believed.
> Bad women are, of course, bigger
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hem on Gloria.
fool8 than good women; otherwise J
they would ho wise enough to be good.
But, being fools, it Is not strange,
perhaps, that they should be so easily
fooled. They can seldom believe or ,
disbelieve truly. The intuition upon J
which they so confidently rely constantly
plays them false, and belief
becomes the servant of wish.
That dance over, the godlike young
heart breaker betook himself again to ^
the t~ail and followed the Stafford
ill ions. \
Gloria had had enough of the guests. \
She wished that they would all go \
heme. Instead they were still pouring V
in. The slam of the doors of their '
cars could be heard even here, as mo- ^
tor after motor rolled up, emptied its
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and rolled away. ^
What Gloria wanted now was a solitude
for two. Freneau was raor# than
willing. Seeing a young man coming
to whom she had promised several 1
dances and given none, Gloria fled j
among tlie crowd, motioning Freneau
to follow. She led the way through. *
the dense wilderness of the conservatory
to a marble bench, appropriately
placed at the feet of a fountain where
a little old marble Cupid presided.
The trvsting place was evidently popular,
for Gloria flushed one brace of
plover when she parted the branches.
She did not recognize the young
man and woman who scurried away,
hut she understood their longing for
quiet and would have apologized it y
they had lingered. Rut now that they
were gone she smiled at Freneau and
invited him to sit beside her.
"This is the nearest to the everglades
we have," she said.
He lost no time in preambles. H6
began: "Gloria, dear, I've waited five
years for this moment, and I want
you to know that my heart has never
for one moment?" 1
There was a rustW of palm leaves
and the swish of skirts. Someone was
invading their Eden. He sighed: "Na
hope!"
Gloria whispered: "Never mind; ,
come out to our country place tomorrow
and 1*11 take you for a sleigh ride
hf'hliul niv nrmi'na An/I T* 11 /li-l?n "
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Krencau chuckled as he understood.
He drew closer to the delectable witch,
only to see over her shoulder the eyes
of an earlier witch.
It was Lois. Fearing that Gloria
might see her she retreated. But Doctor
Royce had followed, too, and ho
had seen Lois' face as she watched
the lovers. He understood now the
fever that he had noted on her face
a while before. He understood, too,
that he had an ally in his battle
against Freneau's prosperity with
Gloria?not an altogether desirable
ally, but all allies are welcome in
love or war. And this was both.
(TO BE CONTINUED.)
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Denmark holds the world's record for
intensive farming. After Germany had
taken Schleswig-Holstein, Danish experts
figured that their development
must come from within and they proceeded
to develop the arid wastes of
Jutland, which liavo now become tremendous
producers of agricultural and
dairy products. The Danes claim that
they have solved most of Europe's intensive
farming problems and that
much of German efficiency in this direction
has been learned from them.
The little kingdom is one of the great
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uuiry producers 01 uio world ailCl
its butter ia exported to every part of
the earth. It is found in Mexico, and
even in the far-off islands of the antipodes
as well as in Patagonia. Its
reputation in Europe, particularly in
England, is unexcelled, and vast quantities
have been shipped for years to
all the countries of Europe. American
business men have always admired the
wonderful cow-feeding methods employed
by the Danish farmers who
tether their cattle in rows in such a
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section of grass in a day. The next
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meadows and it is worked out on such
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cows have reached the end of the pasture
the grass is again ready for grazing
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