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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
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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. ?
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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
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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 :
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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
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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
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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.
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"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.
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Ignorance may be bliss, but it is not
preparedness. Freneau was blissful
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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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"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.)
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