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Novelized from the J
Picture Play of the
name by George Kleii
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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"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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Heart.
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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!"
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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
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"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,
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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."
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