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?U* GLOR mm csjvcI T\rx 1 Novelized from the J Picture Play of the name by George Kleii Copjmfki, 10Itt. kf AdcU?4* M H?|lw i SYNOPSIS. Pierpont Stafford, banker and railroad tn&gnate, with his sixteen-year-old daughter, Gloria, is wintering at Palm Peach. Gloria is a vivacious hut willful young lady who chafes under the restraining hand of a governess from whom she repeatedly escapes. Iler childish capers cause young Doctor Royce to 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 fallfi in love with her rescuer. Pre .ueuu. Five years later 8he leaves school and meets Kroneuu ut the theater; his attention having been occupied with i?er* sister-in-law he has forgot (en Gloria. Gloria feels that her one dream is shattered. ldLiXr 1'Yeneau persuades her to -XuifiiVS hTnT. GhjrTil'H slster-ln-law, Lois. /W^tT^;nes intensely jealous j) n d Doctor / RoVce (llS-Vi-'V^1*8 '10'1 an a'nyto Tisajst in thwarting Freneau. Doctor Roy*73 J warns Froncnu that tliere is anotlier worn- j an besides Gloria; Freneau goes sleigh- i with Gloria, without her jfcuher's j knowledge. It retmTTs m piYeumoiua for GlrtTlJt^ whose family becomes incensed at Freneau \vhen they learn the truth, i Hoy eg is suuiuiorw'^ to a V ?.Y. jil ti? suffering. Fi ehoau's ufl.Yt*. c's being low ' he approaches Plerpont Stafford for a lyan. Doctor ttoyce again warns Freneau of his conduct. But Lois, learning of Froneau's betrothal to Gloria, threatens Jdni with dire punishment. Her husband. Gloria's brother David, becomes suspicious; ho plans a trap for his wife. Fr< ncau dr'\'vn to aespe'riition by Lois' thfg'uts fig fees to spend a week with tier Jti the Catskills. lie plans to iHV'y jMuiry t '"send Gloria a bunch of telegrams. I.ols' husband threatens to kill a man. After Freneau takes leave of Gloria she s* os from her window an attack made upon him when he goes to meet I.ols. Doctor Koyce convinces her that what she lias seen is the result of delirium. Later a telegram, followed by a letter, comes from Freneau. She replies but her telegrams are returned. The first morning she is allowed from her room, she aceidently sees the supposed suicide of Freneau reported in the paper. Then Gloria swears to find the murderer of her lover. Hoyce becomes alarmed and tells what he knows of Freneau to Mr. Stafford. Together they seek to prevent scandal from enveloping Gloria. She accuses them in her mind of conspiracy against her. > y TENTH EPISODE Tangled Threads. A ring on the finger is a badge of | slavery that women are generally i proud to wear, especially when it is ! an engagement ring, with a sparkle of diamonds like the price mark of n princess, saying, "See how much I cost!" or "lie must love me a lot to , have spent so much money on this diunjojid advertisement," p When Freneati slipped the gleam- 1 ing circlet on Gloria's finger she had ! laughed with joy over it, never dream- ; ing that he had bought it on credit and - mentioned her name as security, and still less dreaming that he had not yet freed himself from the ringless engagement to Lois. When Freneau died the gems that had looked to Gloria like jeweled laughter became teardrops of undying grief. She had taken a dismal pleasure in kissing the ring and talking to it as to her lost lover. When her tender heart yielded to the jealousy of her father and to his authority and she surrendered the ring to liim her finger seemed to he suddenly nuked and ashamed of itself. Her father's delight in his victory became t' ' * ^ ^ I She Flung the Riotous Colors About Her Black Gown Like a Scarf. only selfishness and an abuse of parental control. Her very finger ached to have its ring hack and she determined to go to her father and demand it. She went down the stairway to his library with a resolute step. She marched in upon him. lie looked louespme in his ? VO~t sRCtr big dark room at his panic of solitaire. Her mother had been dead for years and the little pir' and boy he had raised had outprown him. David was married and livinp in another house. Gloria had planned to leave , him. She had as it were packed up her heart for departure. In her loneliness she understood his. The look of determination in her face clumped to one of pity. She felt more like her father's mother than like a rebellious ; dauphter. She decided to postpone the quarrel for the ring for a few minutes. 1 I ?? llllll 1\IK. ~.l -1 ? ^ null iiiii iii-iii li HIT, M) Silt? couched. The look of Joy tlint brightened his eyes when they rested on her tilled her with tenderness. lie ' I>usht?d hjjelt his curds mid opened his! arms to her. Slu* ran to liiin and 1 seated herself on the arm of his chair, embracing him and twisting his white I hair into a single spear as she had \ done from childhood. ?~ "My own little (lloria has come home again!" In* groaned in a childish rap-1 tare that showed how blue and deserted In* had felt. "And you're not going to leave me again, are you?" "Never, daddy, never!" she sighed. | 11 . J ifA f "I'll Find Out the Truth?the Truth!" "You poor old widower?you have a little widow for u child. You'll never lose me now." That did not satisfy him either. "O, yes, I will!" he answered. , "Your smiles will come back and some | day a handsome man?" "llush," she said, and put her tin- , ger across his lips. "Don't say it." It seemed treachery of the basest sort to discuss such a topic. She bent her head in apology to the memory of her lover. Her downcast eyes caught a sparkle in the depth of her father's waistcoat pocket. She knew that it was the ring he had taken from her. He had not y?rt put it in the safe or ( thrown it into the river. Gloria was startled. Her lips parted to speak the demand she had come to make. Ihit her father was staring into the tire with such a contented look that she "nuld not hoar to start such a scone as he would he sure to make, lie was a great man for getting what he wanted and for keeping it, once it watt got. The diamond blinked* at her and seemed to say: "Steal me. lie took me by force: take me hack by stealth. I belong to you." Gloria had had no previous experience us a pickpocket, but she understood how exciting the profession must, be. Her father was an unsuspecting and tin easy victim. She had only to lay her cheek against his as a blindfold and while her hair got into his eyes and made him squirm she captured the ring. She was afraid at once that he won Id miss it., speak of it, reach for it, and tlnd it gone. She dared not linger. "Go back to your cards, you old darling," she said, kissed him half a r??wwl ..J. ??.*.. !?* * >n;/,rii ^uiiu-iil^ilin mill It'll, She ran lip to her room and sot the ring in pluoo again on hor linger. She rejoiced in it a moment. Then her heart sunl$. Her father would not tolerate a combination of disobedience and robbery. The main tiling was to keep the ring. She put it in a little chain and fastened it about her neck. Aral there she wore it until?until lief quest was ended and she had learned the truth. Much time and many adventures lay between this night and that day. Her father went back to his solitaire and did not miss the ring for hours. Then he raised a mighty pother. He had the old butler on all fours looking everywhere for the ring. He even had the ashes in the liropluce THE HOBBY HERi sifted. He suspected everybody but Gloria. She was asleep in a loneliness that was somewhat assuaged by her fidelity and her mission. * * * * The next morning Gloria set about , her task with an analytical mind. She | read in the morning paper that Frank Muiry, the partner of the late Richard Freneau, had decided to incorporate the tiriki under the name of Frank Mulry, Inc. It made her angry to ; think of this businesslike haste. But 1 she realized that, ufter all, she knew nothing of Mulry and that he must ! know a great deal about her poor , Freneau. lie was the first man to visit. She was happy in this determination. Her brother David dropped in to say: "Lois and I had a little misunderstanding, but we have made up. We're going to the country house for a new honeymoon. Come ulong, you two, and have some skating and ski- 1 ing and toboggan work." Gloria shook her head. She had other work to do. Her father urged her to make the change of scene. She said she would think It over, but she did not intend to go, as she planned to spend her wits on Frank Mulry. As soon as she could get rid of her father i and brother she ordered her own car | out for the long voyage downtown. Frank Mulry was not at his office when she arrived. He had been summoned to Doctor Royce's office by telephone. Thinking that. Royce prob ably wanted ? tip on the market, and ' eager always for a new customer, j Mulry lost no time In obeying the sum- ! mons. lie found Royce in a grim hu- i inoi4 and not at all polite; "Mr. Mulry," Royce began, every word as sharp as a surgeon's knife, "yo\i know more about Richard From j enu's affairs than you would like to 1 tell In the open court. Miss Stafford is suspicious of everybody who ever knew Freneau. I imagine that she will look you up. It is the wish of her father and of myself that she shall not find out what a scoundrel the man was. We want to spare her, at least till she grows much stronger and time has healed her wounds a little. It is to your interest as much as ours to keep her in the dark. You know how those letters were mailed and those telegrams sont. You know why I Freneau played that horrible trick on the poor girl he was engaged to. I merely wish to warn you that if you see Miss Gloria Stafford coming your way. you got out of her sight, 110 mat-j tor how or when. If you don't you'll In* mixed up in a murder trial that * 11 i n m> 10 von nun your business." Mulry's usual smile was twisted into n look of terror. He had more reasons I than even Royee suspected for wishing to keep the searchlights of the press and the police out of his office. He was uncertain of the manner of Freneau's death, hut the published hints of suicide for financial reasons had put Mulr.v into new financial difficulties. He had used the money Freneau had borrowed of Gloria's father to save hlmsHf from a crash, lie was afraid that Stafford would demand it back at any moment, and lie could not face such a demand. Furthermore, his part in the writing of the letters and the sending of them and the telegrams from the various cities was one that he could not pleasantly explain. He could think of no good lie to tell, and the last person on earth he wanted to meet was Gloria Stafford. Fortunately for him, he was at Royee's office when Gloria arrived at his. She was received by an impertinent young stenographer who seemed unable to spare time from her gum chewing and her appraisal of Gloria's looks and clothes to impart any useful Information. Gloria said she would like to leave a note for Mr. Mtilrv. Tho xfonotr r:\plnT poi lit I'd to a table whereon lay writing materials. (Jloria sat down to invite Mr. Mulry to call upon her. Now Lois Stafford had also an important errand at this ofllce. Iler whole future and reputation lay in the packet of letters that Freneau had promised to return to her. She was sure that they were not on his body, for hud they been found the newspa ' M> v, , : . Mg^M?a^SMM^l5mBg? ^!|^HK ; ??-? g^a^yyps:-' JC^Tx^L -'-|j^ She Called at the Broker's Office. pers or tho police would have mentioned them soon enough. To receiver j those letters was now her prime pur % ILD, CONWtfY, 8. 0. T - -T pose in life. She thought of Mulry as the one most likely to be In possession of Freneau's effects, so she called on Mulry, never dreaming that Frencau hud told him of her own Interference in his plans to wed Gloria, or that Mulry collaborated with Freueau iu his elab?rate scheme to trick both women, ^east of all did Lois dream that Gloria herself would be at Mulry's office. The .stenographer was more iiu pressed by Idols' clothes than by hei attempts to be casual in tier inquiry us to Mulry uud "the papers of poot Mr. Freneau." The stenographer murmured to th* bookkeeper: "Two swell dames camp in' on Mr. Mulry's trail the same day! | Somethin's goin' on here that ain't I gettln' into the letters he dictates to me." So she did not tell Lois of Gloria's presence, and Lois went away In a turmoil of anxiety as great as that In Gloria's iqind when she heard Lois ask about "poor Mr. Freneau." A knife of jealousy went into Gloria's heart and a hideous intuition that her beloved Dick might have bewitched Lois as he had bewitched herself. Those eyes of his had been perhaps a little too winning. She rebuked herself for allowing the suspicion even to tlit through her bruin and began her note to Mulry. Her eye fell on the letterhead. The branch offices of the brokerage firm were listed iu an upper corner: Albany, Buffalo, Cleveland, Detroit, Chicago, St. Louis, Pittsburgh. A new suspicion stabbed Gloria. The telegrams and letters in Dick's writlnir had been sent from just those cities in Just that order Yet he had been dead when they were sent. The earliest explanation was the true one, and Gloria guessed it immediately. lie could have sent them to j the branch ollices in advance to he sent to her in order or he could have, intrusted them to someone traveling the round of ollices. Iler intuition hit on the truth, without knowing it. The very ease of the trick disgusted her. She felt herself in the shadow! of some hateful conspiracy. She he-! gan to doubt her own memory as to j tlie letters and telegrams. Crumpling the letter she had begun and thrusting it into her handbag, she left the oflice, telling the stenographer r K|axx... .ii^ip ^-^^(IBlBB^BfiBP l|HHL4^^i:?:'^%A?,l'?^HBB^Hj A Knife of Jealc vy Went Into Gloria's ? Heart. I that she would telephone to Mr. Mulry. The elevator seemed to drop out beneath her as her whole trust In man and love had fallen from under her. She reached her motor and told the driver to make haste for home. The crowded tratllc, with Its delays, maddened her, and when she reached her house at last she was in a frenzy. She ran up to her desk, took from the strong box the letters and telegrams of her lover, and compared them with the letterhead, laying them out date by date. There they were, the same towns in the same order, like a loathsome timetable of deceit. Her love revolted at the verv nieture of Froneaii. She lost all self-control and cried ut it : "Whoever killed you and whatever his reason was, you lied to me, Dick. You never loved mo, and 1 don't love you any more! I won't wear mourning for you any more." She rang her hell furiously and ordered her startled maid to bring her the brightest gowfl in her wardrobe. She caught it from the maid's hands and drove the girl out, then Hinging the riotous colors about her black gown like a scarf, she broke into a dance, Hinging her lithe body into postures of Joy and ng out that she was happy and that her heart would never bo the fool of love again. Rut she was not strong and her hysteria wore out speedily. Her heart, swung back to Its love again and she foil across the dlvnn sobbing: "Forgive me, Dick. I believe you In spite of the world. I love you in spite of everything nnd I'll timl out the truth?the truth?the truth!" ******* And now it would have been hard to say whether Gloria's motive was one ! of loyalty to Kronenu or of suspicion : of him. She had to acquit him of worse than murder before the court of her own heart as much as to avenge him. If he was the victim of some conspiracy, she was the victim of his. The riddle maddened her with Its uncertainties. That visit of Lois to Mulry's office ^ -N *, '-jr. , -v4 .? * ^ ^ .. KC',,'v'Nfl''o^Ec^HI^^^^^^^^H9H Svi#x-x':-:->:::;:^:;:;:;t:".:l:::::: ::'^.^ii:1:-:1?:^:1:1:^^.^. &. "" <> ,<< <; ?: > : : : ; : : : : :> :< ; ;< . . .$.:.vAvx?5K->>WAw:?v:vMft? * > ? ST" "Lois and I Have Had a Little Misun seemed to involve her in Freneau's duplicity. Lois hud confessed to the photograph of Freneuu. She hud snid that she planned to have a miniature made for Gloria. Hut this seemed now to be only a hasty excuse, a desperate He to hide a discovered theft. She decided to question Lois further. Hut Lois was going to her country home. Gloria had decided not to go. Now she decided that she would. She went to Lois' house to tell her so. To her amazement I>octor Koyee was there. He was saying to Lois j that Gloria was on the hunt and warn- I ing her to bo both a better wife than she had boon and a inoro discreet | woman, .inst such a warning as ho hud given Mulry. Mulry had already taken tho doctor's ndvioo. Ho had i11% it*?d himself to tho country homo of a friond of his, a homo not far from I>avid Stafford's. In eluding (Ilorin ho had sot out for 1!h? very region which she was about to visit in her investigation of I.ois. filoria did not hoar what Doctor I Ttoyce was saying to I.ois when she ! was shown into tho living room. Hut 1 she saw that they wore talking excitedly and that her appearance confused them. (florin was so dlscon- , oortod at this that she could hardly exnlain her errand "I .just dropped in to say that I will accept David's invitation to go up to the farm with you." Lois was so reassured hy this that "die exelaimed with delight. Royce stiid to Gloria : "May I come up, too?" Gloria answered him icily: "It isn't my farm. Good-by, Lois." Then she walked out. Royce stared at Lois, then at the spot where Gloria had been. Gloria was angry at him. Tie could not imagine why. He could not permit her t<? snub him like that. He had some rights as a physician if not as a lover. He bolted from Lois' presence and caught Gloria just as she was getting into her car. "I'm going to take you home at 5 once," he said. She answered with more ice: "I'm iu>t going home. I'm going to my i father's ollice. Good-by." Hoyce helped her into the* car, hesitated a moment, then jumped in after her. Neither of them spoke till the way downtown. She was too angry. He was too bewildered. Arrived at the Equitable building, she put out her hand to bid him good-by, but he shook his head and went in with her. Entering her father's suit#, she brushed aside* a protesting secretary and penetrated with Royce to the luxurious Inner office. Piernoilt Stafford rose in nmnw. ! | ment. "Why, my child, what are you doing j down here? You're not strong enough ! for this." Ami he looked Inquiringly | at the doctor. I "I tried to take her home, hut she ' would not listen to me," Itoyce said helplessly. Oloria advanced to her father with sudden anger. "My health is all right, father, hut what neither you nor Stephen realize is that something must be done for my peace of mind." And drawing the photograph from her breast, she pointed to it with (lashing eyes, turning to each of them accusingly. "He was not drowned. lie was murdered. You don't care. You want only silence. But I want the truth! I'm going to find it! I'm going to hunt down that man whether you help me or not !" Royce studied her with uneasy ad miration: her father tossed his hands In despair. Royce thought a moment, then beckoned to Gloria and said: "Come with me." Gloria followed him out wonderingiy. Entering the corridor of the building, Royce pressed the elevator button marked: "Up." He guided Gloria into a car that stopped for them. It was an express and shot them up to the fortieth floor. Alighting, Royce led her out to the roof. It was surrounded by a high wall, but a cari penter's ladder chanced to be there, mmmmmammm f il Sm iHIIIi;^BVliiH darstanding, but We Have Made Up." and Royee set it up that Gloria mi^ht mount and see across the parapet. Wonderinjrl.v, Gloria allowed Royee to help her up. She shuddered as she looked down Into the depths of the vast canyons. Then, in tfreat seriousness, Royee spoke. lie stood on trie ladder Willi lu r an<i pointed in :t circle, beginning ?t the easi and turning south, then west, then north, as Jia <??)()!. "You say you saw a man kill Kronen u ! I s-ay it wtvs delirium. If it were true, you don't know his name, his country, or his motive; you would hardly fnow his face if^rou saw him again. No one "knows who he is. lie may have taken a ship across the ocean yonder. If he is in that city, among those millions, how can you hope to tind him? Look 1" The marvelous expanse of the harbor, the rivers and bridges, and finally the enormohs city, torrltied (llori.i, but she pounded her little fist on the parapet and shook it at the infinite sky above her in registration of her vow. "I'll find him somehow! Somewhere! Some when!" Itoyce stared at her and loved her piore than ever, hopelessly, helplessly. She leaned on the parapet and gazed off into space. (TO UK CO.NTINCKI).) FIGHTING FIRES IN TIMBER Aid Rendered by Alidade and Phone in Conflagrations That Threaten Immense Loss. Rattles against timber tires in the great national forests of the West are conducted with a wonderful degree of precision and strategy, as the result of systematic operations of the United States forest service. According to the Popular Science Monthly, a forest supervisor who may he many miles from the scene of a tire, marshals his forces and flre-ttghting facilities and directs the attacks and flank movements of his men. Lookouts stationed on mountain peaks and other promontories that command a wide range of vision are each supplied with a plane table to I which is attached a map of the surrounding country, its position being determined by means of a compass. The map is inclosed in a segmented circle and the location of the station is indicated by a pin. A simple alidade (an alidade is the upper part of a surveyor's theodolite) consisting of a ruler with uprights for sighting pur- , poses at either end, or some similar device, is included in the equipment. When a lookout sees smoke issuing from a portion of the forest over which his station commands a view, he immediately sights it with his alidade and notes that it is coming from point so many degrees east or west of a north and south line extending through his station. He notifies his supervisor by telephone, telling him of the apparent size of the lire and its location. Lookouts in other sections of the forest also detect the fire and make similar reports to the supervisor's headquarters. Reports from two or more stations enable the supervisor to locate the fire on a map by means | of intersecting lines. Method in Reading. /iner nuving ner Diooa curcuea Dud- i ly by n thrilling story, Mrs. Kurlous wns angry to find that it ended in an advertisement for somebody's tooth j powder. With a pout, she threw the paper containing the deception across the ' room. "What's the matter, dearie?" asked her husband. Mrs. Kurlous told him her trouble and wound up with the remark: "Now, Jeremiah, I know why the 1 Chinese people begin reading at the < end instead of the beginning. Their 'ntelligence is greater than ours." \ When the Doctor It Praised. ! "The Browns seem to think most highly of you, doctor. They were praising you to the skies the other day." . j "Yes," said the doctor quietly. "You see I've never lost a patient in that family?yet." f ?