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?asass=sss i" - ?a A r=$i ah yjiy ^ T\r. Hrs.I Novelized from the A Picture Play of the name by George Kleir Copyright, by Adrijidc M Hughn SYNOPSIS. Pierront Stafford, bunker and railroad magnate, with his sixt? mi-year-old ..^liter, Gloria, is wintering at Palm Beach. Gloria is a vivaeious but willful young lady who chafes under the restraining bond of a governess from whom she repeatedly escapes. Her childish capers cause young Doctor Uoyee t-1 fall in love with her. She steals from her room 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 is rescued and returned to her father who had offered a reward for her return. Gloria falls in love with her rescuer. Freneau. Five years later she leaves school and mets Freneau at the theater; his attention having been occupied witli her f sister-in-law he has forgotten Gloria. Gloria feels that her one dream is shattered. Later Freneau persuades her to forgive him. Gloria's sister-in-law. I>ois. becomes intensely Jealous and Doctor Rovce dlRpnVAra in bor ?? ? * ?lli? 1 ..A. _ - _ vu . > nil mil IU in thwarting Freneau. Doctor Royce warns Freneau that there is another woman besides Gloria; Freneau goes sleighing with Gloria without her father's knowledge. It results in pneumonia for Gloria^whose family becomes incensed at Freneau when they learn the truth. Royce Is summoned to alleviate Gloria's suffering. SIXTH EPISODE. ? 'T"~ ?aa***-..,.?. The sudden and perilous illness of Gloria Stafford threw her official lover, Freneau, also into a sudden and perilous situation. He and his partner, Mulry, had counted on using Freneau's engagement to the daughter of the great Pierpont Stafford as a kind of collateral at the bank. When the girl was stricken down with pneumonia, Freneau's heart was 1 wrung as well as his purse. He was 1 1 -"I- . g^uuuici/ in iuvc wmi uioria. it was ; not hard to love so beautiful, so rich, and so infatuating a girl. Hut he had not counted on death as a possible rival. And there was another, a more certain rival?Dr. Stephen Royce?whom ! Gloria's brother, David, had called in to take charge of the case. Royce had loved Gloria before Freneau ever saw , tier. It was Royce who had actually ' saved her from the Seminole Indians. Royce despised Freneau and had told i him so. Royce would not oven permit Freneau to enter the sick room, where i he was master. Freneau was permitted to send up flowers, but he could not be sure that, they reached her. He wondered what Royce was saying about him to Gloria, and whether she believed it. He did not know that Royce had been discouraged to make even what protest he might havo given voice to. When he first entered Gloria's room, Royce saw on the little table near her bed a silver-framed portrait of Freneau. Gloria was too delirious to see how his lip curled with scorn. But her father saw it, and when Royce said, "This fellow is a scoundrel," Pierpont answered, sternly: "I called you to treat my daughter's health, not her heart." Preneau did not know that he had such an ally in the family. Hut he knew that he had an enemy of a peculiar sort, an enemy who loved him not wisely, but too well. And that was Lois, the wife of David Stafford. The poor Don Juan of a Freneau had never dreamed when he began a casual flirtation with Lois that she would prove so desperate a worshiper. He had expected that she would let htm go with a aigh or a smile, as his <other sweethearts had done when they : dNLfcr i\ipGrtfK^Kc5 lotion same realized that his heart had wings and used them. He was to learn how seriously Lois took his attentions and to learn it at a most inconvenient time. He had respected Pierpont's wish that the engagement to Gloria should be kept secret, and had told no one but his partner. Mulry. lie had most decidedly not told Lois, lie was plan- ' ning to discard her as gracefully as possible before the news broke. Mulry had chuckled with Joy at the news of the engagement. Hut he grew as glum as an owl when he learned of Gloria's illness. At length he said to Freneau: "My boy, you've got to go and borrow of your papa-in-law to be. or we've got to close the shop. Our branch offices are howling for their back pay, and we've got to pull down some cash somewhere or pull down the blinds. Go talk to Pierpont and show him the books Show him the big killing we're going to make in the street if he'll tide us over. Go on, ard come back with the bacon, or don't come back at all." Freneau would almost rather have gone to the electric chair, but needs must when the devil drives. So he took a big bouquet and a big ledger and a taxicab to the Stafford house. And whom should he meet as he was ushered in but Lois telling Pierpont good-by. And what should Pierpont say but. "I am going to tell you a great secret, Lois. Dick, here, is en- , gaged to Gloria. Don't tell anyone." Lois had no more self-control than to topple over. Freneau was disgusted with her more than ever now. She had enough presence of mind to blame her collapse on the heat of the room and her alarm for Gloria. And the excuse sufficed for old Stafford, but as she left, she gave the sadly shaken Freneau a look that said, "Oh, no, 1 won't tell anyone, but I'll toll you something." That was what her eyes said, while* her lips said: "Congratulations to you both. I'm BUre you'll be very happy. Ciood-bv." Freneau's heart fluttered still morewhen he broached the subject of the? loan to Pierpont?broke to Pierpont the unpleasant newrvthat his new son* in law's first act was to borrow money. He'put it on a business basis, but Pierpont, like most other millionaires, hated to be sponged on, and he shook his head in answer to Freneau's proposition. Freneau was 1n a pitiable plight. He was about to slink away in despair, when he happened to think to say: "You offered me a reward for the rescuing of Gloria from tho Indians. I refused the money then, so I thought that now ? perhaps ? well ? I thought?" "That's true," said Pierpont. "That suggests a way out of It. Your proposition does not appeal to my business sense, but I can do this. I'll pay yon double the reward with compound interest for five years. That will squars us up." Freneau smiled with a renewal of hope, and Stafford wrote him an important check. Freneau thanked him, promised to return the money, and left the bouquet for Gloria. Aa he made his way out he met Royce Just coming down HORRY HBB from Gloria's room. Frenoau hateo the sight of Eoyce for many reasons. "We usually hate people we have wronged. He managed to ask how Gloria was. Royce said she was better, but not yet out of danger. A curious look came over his face as he added: "Look here, Freneau, I don't like you a bit, but Gloria loves you a lot. I don't see why, but she does. Worn?n are peculiar. Now, I'd rather break my own heart than hers. She wants you for a husband, and if you'll play fair and walk straight from now on, I'll do nothing to interfere with your plans. But if you piny false with her, I'll?well?there's nothing I won't do to save her from you." Freneau promised glibly that he would be an ideal lover and a model of loyalty. Ro.v?e said: "I hope so," without much hope, and "You'd better!" with rather too much emphasis. Still, Freneau had the check in his pocket, and he went back to his office with "the bacon." Mulry -made him so welcome that he forgot his new troubles in the radiance of the new business plans. But his promise to Royce was put to the test at once, for that very afternoon, when he reached his apartment, Lois appe^ed there. She was heavily veiled, but Freneau's valet seemed to know her. He backed out icornntl \r W'Rnn T a* uioviuuviji n iicu uvna lilirw UH UIO shroud her face was terrible in its resolution. "You shan't marry Gloria, Dick," she said. "You shan't throw me over? not for her? You shanH marry her of all the people in the world:"' Froneau was tired of L*>is and tired of interference. Ho "ergot to be gentle. Ho laughed. - ^ - "Hurry Up and "Xo? And how are you going to stop ine?" Lois' cold, hard answer bowled him over: "Even Gloria can't be so crazy about you that she would marry you if I were found dead here." Freneau stared at her aghast. He could not quite be sure of her meaning till he saw a little phial in her hand. He leaped for it. Hut she dodged round his desk and put it to her lips. "Don't you come near me or you'll wish you hadn't," she cried. "If you take another step I'll swallow this." Freneau had to temporize with the ! mad woman. He surrendered weakly and dropped into a chair. "Listen to me. Lois," he pleaded. "I went to her father'to borrow money. I've got to have his support or go bankrupt. If I do that I'll blow my brains out. Of course, I don't love Gloria. My heart is yours. Hut I can't marry you. If I marry her she won't interfere with your love and mine. ! We shall be all the safer. If you love me, you won't ruin me. If 'you, don't love me, give me the phial audi I'll get out of your way." She was In so Insane a mood of' jealousy and longing, that she be* lieved him. She made him swear that he spoke the truth, as if an oath or two meant anything to him. Then she suffered herself to remain his dupe, and he took her down to a taxicab, feeling sure that he was well rid of her. Wtian oliA ? ? ? ? *- - * * .. dud iiau kuh? no nreatnea more easily. lie even laughed. He had everybody working for him. Hie rival, Royce, was toiling to cave Gloria's life. His ex-flame, Lois, waa in league with him to keep up the deception. Gloria's father waa lending him money. He was plainly a child of destiny. He was so reassured by his lack that he made a holiday with Mulry, who planned to start off at once on a round of the different cities where they had branch offices for the convenience of victims who lived far from New York. v Ignorance may be bliss, but it is not preparedness. Freneau was blissful ALD, CONWAY, 8, 0. in the belief that Lois was quieted. He did not dream, nor did she, that David i Stafford was awakening. When FreI neau took Lois to the toxicab, she I lowered her veil, but a veil is only i a partial disguise at best, and it may attract attention. Neither Freneau nor Lois noted that a certain Mrs. Coleridge was passing, or that she stared hard, i M rs. Coleridge was one of the prettiI est faces in Freneau's pack of dls i earns, one was a sort or remale Freneau, but in Freneau she had met her match, because she allowed herself to be more thrilled than thrilling. He had passed on without u long pause before her shrine. Mrs. Coleridge had seen Freneau with l^oi8 at various tea dances, and she recognized Hois all the more readily for her veil. She was outraged in her finest sensibilities. She felt it her duty to see that Lois was punished. She did not want to appear as a complaining witness, but her righteous in- i dignation carried her to a large hotel I in whose writing room she found pen, ' ink, paper, envelopes, and secrecy. She dashed off a little note to David ad- j l vising him that his wife was showing more interest than he might approve j in a certain heart-breaker. Mrs. Coleridge neglected to sign her name. In fact, she rather disguised her hand- i writing, though this made little dif- j ference, since David did not know i it, anyway. She dropped the little i letter into a mailbox with the inno* 1 cent glee of an anarchist slipping a bomb with a time fuse under a millionaire's automobile. The United States post office authorities carried the loaded letter to David's office for her. He opened it and read it, but could not understand J it.. Ho read it again and nnd?r?tond \ * . f : .y . - ' j > - . . .. '* ,; \ f ' :: \ ii| - ^ * 1 wm m ' mm I Got Me WoiL" it, but could not believe it. He was about to toss it in the waste-basket, where such missives belong. He read it again. It threw him into a black pit of agony and consternation. Now, he could, but would not. believe it. He wondered who the "heartbreaker" might be. He remembered that Lois had been fond of Freneau years before. He dismissed this suspicion with contempt. He loathed the letter. Only cowards and mischiefmakers write such letters. He threw this one from him as if it were something unclean. Yet tho anonymous poison gnawed away in his brain. He clenched and unclenched his hands and paced the floor, beads of perspiration dripping down his face. At last he fought it out with himself and decided that he would trust I?is till she was proved unworthy. However, tho letter seemed to whisper to him,. "A little test will do no harm." Of course, Lois was guiltless, but perhaps she had been careless of api pearances. It would be better to i 1 wait and rebuke the indiscretion when it occurred. Ho had been talking of a , trip South to a meeting of a board of j railroad directors on which his father had placed him. It was not necessary I for him to go. But he might pretend that it was, and tell Lola good-by, and pretend to leave, and then?. He dared not put the scheme into words. Hut he dared not let the chaooe go past to make sure. That evening, when he went home, Lois greeted him with her usual warmth. Before he had quite decided what to do, he had told her that he was called South for ten days, and he had not urged her to go with him. She did not ask to go. In fact, he thought that she took the bad newa with Just a little too much philosophy. He was tormented with shame and suspicion. The next day, when he went to his office, he bade her good-by as if he were the criminal and she the saint. He could not have Imagined that Lois only waited his departure to fling on her hat and her veil and speed to Frcnean before he should leave for >his own office. ' ;:?:'? $ . . ." . : ' : :. ^.v ::>: !v/; : :'. t-:--. " ""V.:>* " | ^ -,' . i ? ' <::\.x:,A I . % f . 0?C<v.o i ,; KU<?e "Then Dog On It! I Hf She found him, end he pave her a cold welcome. When she told him that David was to he in the far South for a week, lie did not seem to ho in. terested. When she rojoined that now tlioy could ho together without the annoyance of David'3 presence. Fronenu solemnly reminded her of the danger trom gossips and servants. He must walk warily, now that lie was betrothed to a bank account like Stafford's. To this Lois made the astonishing answer that if New York was too full of spies, she would go elsewhere. Fl o reminded him of a beautiful village in the Catskill mountains, and declared her intention of paying it a visit; also she advised Freneau to happen there) at the same time?his fiancee, Gloria, was too ill to see him, anyway, and he could givo a business trip as an excuse. Freneau was indignant, but Ix>is was dangerous. She threatened him again with the awful weapon of suicide, against which there is no defense. He realized that he was the prey ot a kind of blackmailer. He had once thought of Lois as a conquest to he proud of; now he saw that he himself was the victim and she thn tvmn? With one rash art she could not only destroy herself but all Freneau's plans. Again he surrendered. Surrender was becoming a hahit. He made one condition, that they should take along the letters they had exchanged and destroy them. He wanted no written evidence of his past to imperil his future. Hois consented, and hurried away, rejoicing. She left Freneau in a mood of black rage and remorse. The quality of his remorse was shown in his meditations. He thought of the many women he had dealt with lightly, and he wondered if any more of them would rise to threaten his security as a son-inlaw of Plerpont Stafford. That very day the most pitiful of his conquests appeared. Nell Trask had learned from a newspaper that her father had been knocked down by an automobile and taken to a hospital. She visited him there. His bodily injuries were not serious, but he was brooding so, bitterly over Freneau that Nell began to fear for his reason. He told her that he had seen Freneau and had denounced him, and Freneau had struck him in the face. Old Trask was burning to avenge it. Ho whispered to Nell that he would reach Freneau yet and strangle him like a dog. She feared both for her own-, father and for the father of her dead child. She thought of writing Freneau to warn him, but that might only lead him.to persecute her father. Perhaps] lr sne pegged him to marry her, he would be rich enough now. She found I out Freneau's address with little difficulty, and appeared at his door soon after. Lois had left him, in ap ugly mood. The apparition now of so humble an incident in his past as the daughter of a bargeman was too disgusting to endure. When the valet opened Frenoau's door, Nell slipped past him and ran straight to Freneau. He could not even pretend the ordinary courtesies. Ho would not listen to her. He ordered his valet to bundle her out and to take his own two weeks' notice. Nell had no more fight in her than a violet. Like a violet, she bloomed to be trodden on or plucked for a moment and tossed aside. She drifted back to the shabby barge moored at the dock and watted for her father to return "home." Freneau, raging and catting himself a fool, drove his arms Into the overcoat his man held for htm and left for his office, wondering whether he was to be compelled to close np the office because of the follies he had committed. He agreed that flirtation was a poor business. All this while Gloria lay In her bed by the window imagining that Freneau ' |?SP^ ': ..i&w .fW?*, . ,. ;. &.! ". I-.". . :;. ? ; ' :>: w|: > ; ;.;>: : >.>;:;- -:ft|;:: ! ; $/ : -t .'"-V I, </ ' : >|; / , : ' " '::':'':x::.'':: . '' ' '' ' >: ? ' ' . > .. . . .-. ....... ^ . *< >. * >: : . . - ; y > y'y;:-x*y: .: ; ic*x* : ' v io! : . * *: . ; !% * - * , * . ; . ' * ; ' ' yy.i:': ..; . .. ' ..... . V. vliillfci I aiiJ id to Go an' Wake Up." was pining away for her. while she was Rotting well as fast as she could for him. Doctor Royce's treatment consisted mainly in keeping out of the way of nature, helping it, but not impeding it with drugs. Gloria was responding with all the rush of youth, lie was glad of his success as .a physician, hut he was miserable over her eagerness to get back to her romance. Once, while he watched her as sho slept, ho saw that she smiled. Tie wan afraid that he knew why. When her eyes opened and stared about her room ahd at him in bewilderment, he understood that she had come out of tire dream realm. "Oh, such a wonderful dream I've had. I dreamed I was well?all of a sudden I hopped out of bed. and?presto, my clothes were on without all the trouble of buttons and hooks and eyes, and I floated through the wall and over the roofs and climbed down the chimney of Dick's apartment house like a regular Santa Clans. "Then I came out through the steam radiator without even rumpling my frock, and there I found Dick so lonely and forlorn as never was. When he saw me he nearly expired of joy. "Then I took him by the hand and floated with him through the wall and across the roof to the darllngest little church. The darllngest little minister floated through the pulpit and then? dog on it!?I had to go and wake up. Villi wnan'f If a lioonHfnl druom')1' M.J v< t U MWil v> av 14 MVUUV11UA Vt l>a 111 , "Beautiful," groaned Doctor Royce. She was too happy to hear the Borrow In his voice. She merely exclaimed: "Hurry up, for heaven's Bake, and get me well." And. like a dutiful young physician, he promised. But he wondered whether It was kindness or not to restore her to the world where dreams do not often come true?unless they are bad dreams. (TO BE CONTINUED.) i There is a species of butterfly In British Guiana which measures 11 inches from tip to tip of its wings. Wfinn'QDescriptiveFail i nUilll u Seed Catalog I just issued, tells all about Crimson Clover, | Alfalfa and all Grass and Clover Seeds for Fall Planting* Foil Qno/1 aIam. I 1 v* m ?? ? 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