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mm ROM? ^jvcl Firs.. Novelized from the I Picture Play of the name by George Kleii Coffnfhi, 1916, by Adelaide M Hufhct SYNOPSIS. Pierpont Stafford. with his daughter (iloria. is wintering: at Palm Beach. Uloria is a vivacious hut willful young: j lady who chafes under the restraining: hand ef a governess from whom she re- i imutmllv i tioc !!???* i'.(ini>rs: cause young Doctor Royoe to fa!! in love with her. Becoming lost in the everglades she falls into the hands of the Seminole Indians. She is rescued and returned to her father. Gloria falls in love with her rescuer. Freneau. Five years later she leaves school and meets Freneau itt the theater; he has forgotten Gloria. Gloria fools that her one dream is shattered. Later Freneau persuades het to forgive him. ^Gloria's sister-in-law. Lois, becomes intensely jealous and Doctor Hoyce discovers in her an ally. Doctor Hoyce warns Freneau. Freneau goes sleighing with Gloria. It results in pneumonia for Gloria, whose family becomes incensed at Freneau when they learn the truth. Hoyce is summoned to alleviate Gloria's suffering. Freneau's finances being low he approaches Fierpont Stafford for a loan. Doctor Hoyce again warns Freneau of his conduct. But Lois, learning of Freneau's betrothal to Gloria, threatens him with dire punishment. Her husband, Gloria's brother David, becomes suspicious. Freneau driven to desperation by Lois' threats agrees to spend a week with her in the Catskills. He plans to have Mulry send Gloria a bunch of telegrams. Lois' husband threatens to kill a man. After Freneau takes leave of Gloria she sees from her window an attack made upon nun wnen no poos to moei 1,01s. i 'ooior Kovco convinces her that what she has scon Is the result of delirium, latter a telegram, followed by a letter, comes from Frpi'ioaii. Site replies but her telegrams are returned. The lirst morning she is allowed from her room, she accidentlv sees the supposed suicide of Vr e rjeau reported in the paper. Then Gloria swears to find the murderer of her lover. Koyce becomes alarmed and tells what he knows of Freneau to Mr. Stafford. Together they seek to pre-vent scandal from enveloping Gloria. She accuses them in her mind of conspiracy against her. Gloria sets about to run down Freneau's murderer. Royce warns Mulry to tell Gloria nothing. Gloria calls on Mulry and there sees Lois who also is worried. Gloria's suspicions are aroused. Royce endeavors to show her the difllculty she faces. ELEVENTH EPISODE The Fugitive Witness. Aroused from its winter sleep. Dovld's country house was aglow with ' pood cheer. Gloria, her father, Doctor Itoyce, and David and Lois had come up to play for a little, to throw off the family tragedy and the formal duties of their city life, and to forget themselves boisterously in the open. ror men and women resting i 11 the shadow of a crime they behaved strangely like children turned out in j the yard to play after a rainy day's Imprisonment. They ran through the ; house shouting hilariously to one an- i other as they found their skates and wraps for a trip to the frozen swimming pool. The dogs added greatly to the excitement by loud barkings of ' 'Tome on out" and by a remarkable I gift for getting in the way. No one played harder than Gloria. She was trying to convince the others that she had put the mourning off her mind as well as her body. She want- , od to find out what her people were concealing from her, and why. The Stafford family lark was soon Invaded by neighbors. A tohoganning party from another country house appeared. There were no invitations or only mumbled words, for ceremony p ' This Was the Partner of Her Murdered Love iv had no place among flying snowballs, and dignity could not be kept lip after a bump on the Ice. Gloria found herself the victim of the attentions of a large, jovial man whose playfulness was a little too heavy for her liking. She was about to snub him when someone casually j alluded to him as Frank Mulry. Gloria staggered in the snow at meeting thus by chance the man she m t \FCEr had tried in vain to overtake in town. 1 Mulry, never imagining who she was. ' thought that slie had slipped on the ! icy snow; tie put out his hand to catch j lior. Mulry was always ready for ; llirtation. I'reparedness was Mulry's j motto. Gloria studied him a moment. This was the partner of her murdered lover. lie was too amiahle of mien to he accusahle of such a crime. She acquitted him of wishing to do away with Freneau. In fact, the papers said that Freneau's death laid nearly wrecked the linn. Mulry did not look bankrupt. Gloria did not know that her father had given a large sum of money to Freneau a few days before Ul#. -1 iK I . i . ?? i t. , ins ucain unu niai Aiuriy was living on that. There was a shifty flippancy in Mulry's eyes and manner that made (florin distrust him. She felt a little added distrust of her dead lover for having such a man as a partner. The hateful proverh ahout "birds of a feather" ran through her*mind like a! tune In any ease, here at last was! tlni man she sought, and she was im-I patient to question him. There were too many people on the crest of the hill t?> permit of conversation there. So she dared him to a toboggan ride. He accepted. She got aboard and he steered. They swooped like a descending airship. But at the foot of tile hill the toboggan careened and slid them deep into the drift before it ; capsized. Mulry, for all his bulk, was agile i and he was soon helping Gloria to her feet, "Thank you a million times. Mr. Mulry," she said. "You saved me from drowning in the snow." lie beamed and congratulated him-J self on making such success with this pretty creature, lie had not recog- i aized her. He had seen photographs oi jut in r rciu'iui s possession a nil lie had seen her at the opera. But she was disguised to him now by her tlose-iitting cap, her rough sports suit and, most of all, by her coquettish smiles. Suddenly he had to leap for his life to escape another scooting toboggan. On it were David and Lois and a young man from the same house j party of which Mulry was a member. "Hurt yourself, Gloria?" David sang out. "Did you get hurt, Miss Stafford?" 1 the other young man cried. Gloria shook her head and called after them, not noticing that Mulry's < eyes were popping and his jaw droop- , ing. He had pieced the name together. "Gloria Stafford!" He had come up here to escape her and he had just coasted down the hill with her. and she knew his name! lie remembered Doctor Royee's warning of ' the danger of meeting Gloria face to face. He pretended to be suddenly 111. lie begged Gloria's pardon and said that he must go home. He was too big for Gloria to bold and she could not run after him without attracting atten- J tion. She stood bewildered while he 1 goi away. Later she telephoned to his host and asked to speak to him. She | learned that he had just taken u motor to the train. Gloria forgot her suspicions of Lois in her newer suspicions of this man Malry. He was evidently running away from her. Therefore she must pursue him. His flight was evidence of some mysterious guilt. Gloria cut short her visit to the country and announced her intention of going hack to town tit once, ller father and her brother were used to her whims and did not oppose them nowadays out of pity for her. The next morning Gloria made another journey to Mulry's oflice. She went early within business hours. The stenographer told her that Mr. Mulry had gone to Palm Beach the night hefore with a rich client who had in- i vited him to he his guest. Gloria was furious at this new escape. She pondered it all the way home. When she saw her father she told him that he was not looking at all well : he needed some irolf uml surf bathing. Ho ought to go to Palm Poach. Ho accepted the suggestion heartily. lie was more than willing to undertake the golf and he was I eager to get Gloria out of the region ! of her sorrow. He was so worried | over her swift alternation of gloom and gayety that he Invited Doctor Itoyoe to came along us a member of the family party. He did not have to ask Koyee twice. I Gloria had not been to Florida during the last five years. To her it was not so much a flight from her romance as a return to Its birthplace. It was at Palm Peach that she had met her fate. ilt wus there that she had mude her THE HOBBY HER' girlish escapade in David's racing car, and wrecked it in the everglades. It was there that she had wandered into the heart of the wilderness and into the heart of the young Seminole chief who would huve forced her to be his squaw, vif her brave Freneau had not rescued her from him. And now her ! lover, who had escaped the dangers of the jungle, had been slain on Riveraide drive; her romance had euded in vanity and despair. She found the pleasure paradise almost the same. A little more gorgeous, perhaps, but all the gloomier for that. She had j come from the white winter of the North into the sudden July of Florida, and her heart ached anew remembering how love had bloomed in her life antler the tropical sun of Freneau's eyes. It was like going over an old album of souvenirs to revisit the scenes of that far-off yesterday. The same throngs seemed to be dancing the same dances, hounding through the same waves, still sipping their tea under the palms in the royal gardens of the 1'oineiana. She had almost forgotten her parpose in coming here when she caught sight of Frank Mnlry's broad back, lie was rolling along briskly. She dit^ not know that he had caught sight of her first and made off in disgast and amazement at her discovery of his new retreat. She dared not run after him and she could not keep pace with him. She l<?st him in the maze of the bazaars. Later she saw him riding in one of the rolling chairs prqpolled by darkies on wheels?the familiar "afroiuobiles" of Palm Beach. Poor Mulry was winded by his speed and he wanted to get to his host's cottage. But he caught a glimpse of Gloria, also chartering an afromobile. To his horror her afromobile made after his. lie dared not put back to bis hotel, lie ordered his driver to turn down a howered path and to give him all the steam the black could afford. The inotormnn was vigorous, but the I passenger was heavy. Gloria was light, but her African was weak. It was anybody's race with every prospect of a spill tor one jockey or the other, since j the paths were tilled with dawdling ! strollers and the bicycle had come J back into fashion. Everywhere worn- : en in exquisite dresses were roving 1 about on pedals. Dozens of other afromobiles also cluttered the race course. ! Now, Gloria gained and was about to j bead off her man, when a messenger boy on a wheel cut in ahead and it was necessary for Gloria's chauffeur to back pedal wildly or endure collision. | Mulry would shoot ahead and rejoice at his triumph, only to find himself in a tangle of pedestrians. His onedarkv nowor machine beirnn to feel the i effects of his bulky cargo. Mulry npTold Her Father He plied gasoline in the form of a dollar l.i II I . I t ..1. .1 I.. f . . i? _ _ 1 I I'll! IH ililUIMIl"! Ill I mill Ol Jl< ppiug, white eyeballs, and that gave him the j advantage for a time. lhit even money , ear.not furnish, everlasting power, an<l the heavy breathing hack of him told Mulry that his engine was about to die. Tie looked back and saw that Gloria's car had taken a wrong turn j and shot down another avenue. He i gave three silent cheers for himself. I Thus ended one of the most bloodcurdling rolling-chariot races since Ben-Ilur's day. Mulry paid Ids exhausted man well and took the nearest way to the cottage where he was guest, lie did not leave it that night, and it was well, for Gloria hunted for him everywhere. She would not dance, though many asked her. The music hurt her cruelly. She remembered how she btid wanted to dance that moonlit night so long ago, but had been put tc bed by her heartless governess. She remem nored now she had suffered till sue ! could hear it no longer, and had risen to dress in the dark and steal out, leaving her governess a-snore. She had envied David his liberty and had stolen the ear that David brought round so that he might take Judge Freeman's daughter Lois for a moonlight spin?and spoon, (florin had not prevented David from marrying Lois, ! and she had run herself into a series 1 of adventures that had promised everv kLD, CONWAT, 8. O. would last. He was tempted to go out and surrender to this young girl who was stalking him with such relentless stealth. But he thought of the money her fa* ther had giveu to Freneau and he was afraid he would have to give it up. lie thought of his share in Freneuu's trickery and the ugly look it would have in court. He beat his fat head for some clever lie that would explain I everything^gracefully, but no insplrh; tlon came and he went to bed like a ! spanked and supperless child. The next morning Mulry looked out 1 late upon the flood of sunlight gilding i the liquid emerald sea. The breakers ailed to him. lie could not resist the summons, lie stole down a corridor j and along an unfrequented walk to u bathhouse. He unpeeled ids clothes and squeezed into a bathing suit and so made into the ocean. Friends of his lolling 011 the beach said that the water rose when he went in and fell when he came out. Hut Mulry was happy, lie wallowed and (lived like a porpoise till he was blissfully weary, then ho stretched himself on the sand 1 for an Oriental snooze. lie heard a voice that sounded fuI miliar, lie sat up. Gloria was* eoiii' ing along the bettch directly toward 1 him. In her sea clothes she was an I approval of all eyes except Mulry's. i lie ?Jjd not make the mistake of the i ostrich. He buried ills entire self lu the sand and tried to hold his breath j till Gloria got past. Buck was against him and she casually stepped on him as she crossed his equator. When she had gone, he exhumed himself hastily and made for the water ro ciear on tne sand mat loaded mm. .lust as he set his toe in the first froth I (Iloria sighted him. lie could tell by her start that she recognized him. He ran into the waves, she followed. He dived through the first breaker and a second and a third. When lie looked hack she was not to he seen. He laughed and began to float?which was the easiest thing he did. Suddenly lie i saw a red turban come through the I wall of a big billow. Under it appeared | thing wonderful only to stop short in black disaster. Her poor, brave, patient lover would dance 110 more, smile at her no more. Love was gone from ' her life already and she was only twenty. Frank Mulry did not dance that night, either. He sat at his window, listening to tin? music and wondering Uow long this game of hide and seek (florin's face. Mulry struck out to sea. (Iloria came crawling after. He was astonished to see how well she swam. Hut he swam well, too. He wondered if he would have to cross the Atlantic and he regretted the | necessity of landing in Europe with his j bathing suit and nothing else. He 1 II ~v'' Ought to Go to Palm Beach. was still at some distance from Europe when he suddenly felt a twinge of vain in his ankle?then in his knee? tn both knees. He was doubling up\ with cramp! He knew real fear now. He looked back to shore and the faroff, misty crowd. He shouted for help. Nobody heard him except Gloria, and he placed no reliance in her. She called to hiin, but he was past answering. Gloria had been raised an athlete and her brother David had taught her how to rescue drowning TIIWit11>> Hiif Imp firvit lwviftWMil stration alarmed her. She had not counted on so huge u barge to take in tow. She set up u cry to shore. No one heard her. No one missed her except one man. Doctor Itoyce was looking for her. That was not strange. He was almost always looking for her or at her. Pierpont did not know where she was. David and Lois had no idea of her whereabouts. She was not among the crowds on the beach. Royce stared out into the farther watersN Se saw her turban2-or at least he was afraid that it was hers, i lie saw her put up her hand, though he could not hear her cry. He howled to the life-saver in the boat and nokited to where Gloria swam with one hand, the other clutching at Mulry's collar. The life-syiver bent to the oars; the shallop slipped across the waves and Itoyce plunged in and / i \':s.&* ?* _. __ She Caught Sight swam with all his might, diving through the white caps, cresting the lug rollers. The life-saver checked his boat alongside Mulry, took him fl'Oin (il(il'i:i 11:1 1111 (1 1?i 1-1 nvi.r tin, c?i.i<ii seat, uikI loft him faco down, heels in air, while lu? offered his haul to (iloria. (iloria shook her head. Slie felt better for having saved a life. She underestimated the distance to shore. She ordered the life-saver to make haste with Mulry. "Take good care of him," she shouted. "lie belongs to me." The life-saver thought she meant 1 that he was her husband, lie thought it a pity that so pretty a girl should have so much husband. Hilt he did as : he was told and hurried Mulry ashore] (iloria felt lonely and afraid when : the boat was gone. She wondered if she could make the land. She did not really care, her life was too sad. She was beginning to droop and fail when lloyoe appeared at her side and set her hands on his strong shoulders. She liked him better than she thought she did. He swam magnificently. He saved her and she was glad to be saved. When at last she staggered ashore and her father embraced her, wet as she was, she looked about for Mulry. IIi? was gone. The life-saver had re vlved liiin and ho had tottered away. Gloria <lid not know whom he was 1 visiting. Ho was not in tho hotel registers. She did not know that ho had , gone to his friend's cottage, slammed his clothes in his trunk and suitcase, I and returned North. ******* One of the picturesque features of I'aim Beach life is the presence now and then of Seminole Indians, who come up from the everglades to sell ; baskets and other samples of their craft, rattlesnake skins, and trinkets of various sorts. Among those ^vho stood offering bargains of the sort were i the young chief who wanted to marry i Gloria and the old squaw whose horse Gloria had tried to steal. They recog- ! nlzed her when they saw her wander-; ing slowly along looking for Mulry. Gloria paused nnd stared at them. She did not re<?bgnize them at first and stopped to price a souvenir of her captivity. But she noted the wild glare in the eye of the romantic peddler and suddenly remembered her swarthy suitor of five years ago. Her old fear came hack to her for the moment. She started to escape. The chief clutched her hand and compelled her to pause. She was hardly reassured by his soft words. "Don't be 'fraid. Nice squaw, nice squaw." She could think of nothing to say. 1 He did the talking. "Munr vmiru Viliu'n annnw rim I ,? v M ? ?J \ MV|V?U ?? t 14 14 VII I You got husband yet?" (iloriu shook her head and sighed. The chief sighed, too?with relief. He spoke grandiosely. "All right. You marry me now?" Gloria was almost as much embarrassed by this second proposal in the Poinda-na gardens as she had been by the first in the everglades. She could not imagine what to say. The chief Jr flP? 'f _.. W . - aKp } J VI t|jH& v> C fiAAAiiU?i.i n..A in duuimriyiy ana rui v/Ui n ll Hand. |H |H S3 P^j^HB ieH i iB ' ^ s '^'^v^' *~ ^\\ v " ., ,.;. ~JM I f;^ J' %| I of Frank IViulry ?*.' ?) crowded closer to Iter. Suddenly his 9 face hardened as he looked past her.9 He clenched his fists and reached iurl a knife, Gloria followed his eyes aiul saw Doctor ltoyce in the distance. Sho9 wondered why the chief should hute9 him. The chief explained with a dog's 9 snarl. 9 "That man nearly kill me once, lie I take you from mo." 9 Gloria pointed to Royee questioning-9 ly. The chief nodded, (iloria protested.? She \v? nl<l not permit the gh>ry of Iht ivseue t < i ' e taken from her dead h ve. H "Xo, no; ii wasn't that man. It was I this one," she cried, and caught from? her gown a little portrait of Freneaii H In a locket. I The ehief clutched It and looked H hard. The chief's lip ended with scorn.? 11?? laughed?almost. fl "Mini? Humph! Him white liver!? Him run! That limn there hand me? big wallop. Ugh!" I Gloria was indignant. Tin* chief de- I scribed with vivid pantomime and gut-I tural words the true history of her? rescue, his own proposal of marriage, fl Gloria's swooning with terror, Fre- I mum's arrival, his terrilied retreat he- I fore the chief's advance. The struggle I for the chief's knife, and finally the-? tremendous uppercut that had knocked I tlie chief. Meanwhile, during the fl fight, he had caught glimpses of Fro- B noun's hasty gathering up of Gloria | juHi nis escape witn ner, leaving Royce* to his fate. I y Gloria was aghast at the story. As I the chief went on with It Royce saun- I tered up and paused. The chief turned I on him and was about to attack him. I Royce fell into an attitude of self-de- I fense, but smiled and spoke soothingly I and put OUt his hand. The chief took I it. Ho was a good sportsman and sol was Royce. I Gloria looked from Royce to the pie- I tare of Freneau in her locket. A ter- I rii)ie doubt of Freneau assailed her. I she seized Royce by the arm and I dragged him to one side, demanding: I "It was you that saved me. Why I didn't you tell me?" I Royce looked sheepish and shrugged I his shoulders, lie did not know just II what to say. Gloria looked at the I locket with hideous new suspicion,, j then turned and hurried away with M tears springing to her eyelids. I Royce stared after her adoringly. M Gloria wandered far down the beacli I alone. She was in a hopeless frame of I mind. She dropped to the sand brood- I ing over the crumbling of her hero's glory. From the sea the ghost of Fre- I neau seemed to come to her and, kneel- I ing by her, take her in his arms. She thrust him away, crying: 1 "Coward! Cad! Liar!" 1 The ghost retreated sadly into the w sea. Gloria wept over the picture in m her locket. A Royce, coining along the beach, found I her. He knelt down at her side. I Gloria turned.to him with the old ques- I tion: 1 "Why didn't you tell me that it was I you who saved me, and not Dick?" I Royce gazed into her sad eyes pity- 1 ingly. He was unable to deal the death | Hiow to nor trust In her deud lover. I lie spoke gently. 1 "It was Freneau that found you and J saved you. I arrived a little too late, 9 and I simply held oft' the Indian chief J while Freneau made sure of your 1 safety." ly Gloria studied him with a longing to believe in Freneau. He did not flinch. \ She thanked him and he rose sadly and walked away. He had lledi to her because he loved her. But his heart was almost bursting with protest against the sacrifice. \ When he had gone, Gloria put out her arms to the sea, crying: i "Dick, Dick, forgive my suspicions and COllin tn mo V* From the waves Freneau seemed to come forth again and, sitting down beside her, take her in his arms. She wept, then rose and accompanied by his ghost, moved slowly and sadly along the bench. (TO BE CONTINUED.) B. T. Holmes was here one day last week shaking hands with his many friends. A