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hiao ?om j?ffT\r. &jvcI T\rs. Novelized from the 1 Picture Play of tht name by George Klei Copjmghi, 1916, bjr Adelaide M Hugh** SYNOPSIS. Pierpont Stafford, with his daughter Oloriu, is wintering at Palm Poach. Gloria is a vivacious but willful young lady who chafes under the restraining hand of a governess from whom sho repeatedly escapes. Her childish capers cause young Doctor ltoyee to fall in love with her. Becoming lost in tho everglades she falls into the hands of the Seminole Indians. Gloria falls in lovo with hor rescuer. Freneau. Five years later she leaves school and meets Freneau at the theater: he has forgotten Gloria, loiter Freneau persuades her to forgive hirn. Gloria's sister-in-law, Dois, becomes intensely Jealous. Freneau goes sleighing? with Gloria. It results in pneumonia for Gloria, whoso family becomes incensed at Freneau. Royce is summoned. Froneau's finances being low, he approaches Piorpont Stafford. Dots threatens him with dire punishment. Her husband, Gloria's brother David, becomes suspicious. Freneau plans to have Mulry send Gloria a bunch of telegrams. Gloria sees from her window an attack made tipon Freneau. Doctor Royce convinces her it is delirium. loiter, a telegram, followed by a letter, comes from Freneau. She replies, but her telegrams are returned. She sees the supposed suicide of Freneau reported in the paper. Gloria swears to find the murderer of hei lover. Royce tells what he knows of Freneau to Mr. Stafford. Together they sock to prevent scandal from enveloping Gloria. She accuses them in her mind of conspiracy against her. Gloria goes to David's country home. She meets Mulry, who flees at once. Gloria insists on going to Palm Beach. Again she sees Mulry there. He leaves for the North. She is recognized by her one-time captor, the young Indian chief, lie tells her that Royce and not Freneau was her reseller at that time. Gloria attends night court* she sees Mu!rv there, also the tramp who attacked Freneau. But Judge Freeman releases him. She follows the tramp when he leaves the court, and falls Into the hands of holdup men. THIRTEENTH EPISODE The Midnight Riot. To be miles from home without street car ftire is a luxury for the daughters of millionaires. Gloria Stafford would have taken her first experience as a great joke if she had not been devoted to so important an errand. The footpad who stole her handbug stole ulso her transportation. She felt that she might as well have been lost in Florida everglades again. Of course, she would have had protection by appealing to almost any of the wayfarers. But, after her encounter with the pickpur.se, she looked on everybody with suspicion. She slipped through the crowded streets and Milled along the deserted byways on the hunt for the murderer of her lover. She was afraid of everybody and everything, hut most afraid of losing that man. At lust she suw him again ahead of her. He was wandering rather aimlessly. lie had apparently dropped in at one or more of the little swinging doors that Mapped on every corner. Gloria hastened after him, but before she could quite c.u h tip he clambered on a surface car. The conductor had to help him aboard. lie was so busy at that task that he did not see Gloria's wildly waved hands or hear her command, "Stop thai car!" If Gloria had caught the cai* she could not have paid the fare, though she might have given the conductor a nickel's worth of flirtation. At any rate, she missed the car. Several other cars came near not missing her us slio sCmiiH irrrwnlnt?? in 1 t11ir 1 <11<. of the street. Then n taxieab hustled along. Gloria felt more at home. She did not have to pay the taxieab till the end of the voyage. She could probably have the fare charged. From the look of the ramshackle thing she could buy the cab for nothing. She told the taxieab to follow the street car ahead and keep near it, without passing it. The taxi driver was greatly impressed. "What's the game, miss. Are you a lady detackatuff Gloria looked wise and said nothing. As she hopped in, Doctor Koyoe caught sight of her from a distance. A taxieab was rather conspicuous down there. He wished for another, or a pulr of wings. Then a motor ambulance came along, banging Its hell. Dr. ltoyce had a wide acquaintance in ambulances. He dared to stop this one and ask the Interne for a ride. And so they went?the taxlcuh pursuing the street car; the ambulance pursuing the taxicab. It was an appropriate place for an ambulance. It was quite likely to be needed. Hut the anibulnnce had to turn into a side street before it overtook Gloriu, and ltoyce was compelled to drop off and pursue afoot. Then the street car that carried Trask stopped so abruptly that Gloria's taxi cab shot past It, almost annihilating Trask as it whizzed by. Gloriu cuught a glimpse of Trasileaving the car, grazing the taxical and reeling down u dark street. Sh< pounded on the glass und put her heat l?ut to check the driver. She ordcre< t i * ? ? - I m "t tfCE "Don't You Give Your Really, Truly, Name, Dearie." I him to hack up. lie bucked into the very street car that Trusk had .last left. There was a crash, a tinkle of broken glass, and Gloria was evicted through the broken door. The chauffeur got down and began the usual wrangle with the motornmn and the conductor of the street car; the passengers piled out; a crowd gathered. Two policemen ran up and began to make notes. Gloria tugged at the coat of the chauffeur, but he was too busy to pay any attention and she had no money to pay him. So she left him and ran for Trask, not entirely sorry that she had saved her j fare. ine delay Had enabled Doctor ltoyce to gain some ground, but he lost It again trying to ask the excited chauffeur where his passenger was. (florin could see Trask's tall, grizzled head over the heads of the crowd, and she was nearly at his lands when a belated truck, bearing a long steel girder, drove across her path. It seemed to take forever to move by. When at last it cleared the way Trask was almost out of sight. lie hesitated before two or three saloon doors and Gloria had retrieved most of her lost distance. Then, suddenly, he turned and dashed into a barroom. Gloria was headstrong,* and she startled herself witn her own behavior, but instinct drew the line at entering such a place. Her eyes were attracted by the sign, "Ladies' entrance" over a side door. She did not know that it led to a large dance hall at the rear of the barroom. She ventured along the grimy corridor until site heard the music and the shullling of feet. Then she understood and would have retreated it' a brace of typsy guniiion had not com? lurching in from the street and cut o!T her escape. She hacked away from them in terror and bucked into the dance hall?a large, noisy, dirty room, tilled with vicious and shahhy characters. Couples were dancing in characteristic clinches or sprawling about Hie tables. (ilorta ivas of such a different sort that her .sudden appearance caused a silence. She turned and strred. A hurley radian called Choey, a waterfront hcau smoking a cigarette nuh, saw her and, halving his companion, went to Gloria with admiring cm nusiasm .and roared : "Ghee, kid, but you're chust my style, an' cluist in time for a loin." Gloria declined his invitation with terrilied thanks and started for the door, but Choey seized her by the waist, whipped her into his arms and A3 * ? ? ? - - ? - iox-irouiMi away with her. She was more disgusted than afraid. She resisted vainly, pushing against him and struggling. lie laughed; the crowd laughed. She struck up at the villain's ! face, hut he held his head too high for her to reach and, laughing, whirled her round and round through the crowd. About this time Doctor .Hoyce was In hot pursuit of (iloria. He had caught a glimpse of her hat, and he thought j he saw it turn in at a door. He was ' almost more angry than anxious. He ' tried all the doors. At length he 1 reached the dance hall. He glanced at the crowd and felt sure that Gloria ' could not he there. He was about to ^ retreat when Choey's late companion, ^ Moll, admired him and danced up t< him, daring him to Invite her to n : spiel. And then he saw Gloria?a most ) astonishing Gloria. She had been s<: 5 enraged by her captor's insistence that ' she seized him by the neck scarf and leaping up, caught him by the hail THE 'HORRY HERA nBssgK=25SSBSE^B3iSBESESS3i MHHHF; &$ J?l>^ . &$$ . x-.-i . . . . v.. ^L BB??5s :-x?3BwBBy''*'?'''^'*'?''*''?'iMBMiB^BiBB^BBmBWBBBtMB8 "Chee, Kid, You'n i and drugging: his head down slapped ( his face. j C'hoey was a boll over in the equality I of women, and he made ready to re* turn Mow for blow. Itoyt?c* mane a i wild rush and blocked the attack, lit* ! drew (Gloria's arm through his and started out. The crowd stopped dancing and watched. C'hoey was not in the habit of surrendering. He let out a yell and seized Gloria's other arm. ltoyce broke Ins grip by Jin .iitsu and tiling hitu off. lie fell against a table, upsetting the occupants, who rose and j struck at him, then at one another. Choey leaped at Itoyce. The /.est <>l battle Jilled the air. Itoyce put Gloria back of hint and met Choey half way. Uoyee was a college boxer and Choey had a schooling in the east side rings, it was a pretty exhibition of two schools 01 science. The spectators were of divided opinions and began to take sides. Men and women quarreled and smote. The whole place fell into uproar. Itoyce was attacked on all sides. He seized a chair and cleared a space for (lloria. It was wrenched from k'.m. Bottles were thrown. Itoyce went to his knees and rose with a gash on his head. Gloria did her best to protect him till he got up, but she was a novice in such scenes. Through a terrific melee I Itoyce slowly fought backward to the ! door. Kven the musicians entered the fight. Gideon Trask, never dreaming that he was the cause of it all, watched the battle from the barroom door, through which the aproned barkeepers entered the fray. Choey's neglected lady friend began to fear for him. She forgave him the slight he had put on her, and when she saw him slip on the wet floor and go sKwnting under tno ii'i't or tno trampling herd she was alarmed for his manly beauty. She dashed from the woman's entrance and down the street hi where two policemen stood. She ran up to them, yelling: KUIINfc / \ [ j ' ': The Whole Place I ; "Say, dere's a swell guy In dere .nioidcrin' de whole bunch." [ The policemen run with her, rap[ ping the pavement. One of them i stopped to telephone the station for - the patrol wagon. Two other poiice. men galloped in from side streets. j Koyce and Gloria had struggled ! through to the door Just as the policemen poured in at their hacks. Royce . j being the first man they found, they i seized him roughly. Gloria Interceded i with anger and was threatened with a hack-handed blow, l'olicemen have to art quickly si nil vigorously In riots, and these officers were not accustomed ? to finding well-bred young women from , good homes in that quarter. All the gang, men and women, ini eluding Moll, pointed to ltoyce and to I i (Ilorla as the disturbers of a peaceful > j gathering. While they yelled and t ! wrangled si patrol wagon rolled Into , ; the street and backed up to the curb, r The reserves tumbled out. A second . / LD, COftWAY, 3 t>. ^ji SMKiflHi gmhm^^H ^Kw.* w 5 Chust My Style." j wagon was on the way up. The police began to hustle everybody toward the wagons. Gloria was i willing enough to leave the place, but the thought of taking a ride in the patrol wagon was absolutely intolerable. When tin ofllcer tried to shove ! her along she brushed his hand from ! her arm and snatched olT his hat, cry- < ing: "Take < it your hat when you I speak to me." The oltlcor was enraged, then amazed. He picked up his hat, put it on, took it oil', and then bowed to her in mock politeness. Then she went : out very haughtily. The whole crowd was rushed into | the two patrol wagons excej>t Trask, I who laid hidden hack of the bar when the oflieers descended. As Gloria sat in the wagon clinging to Koyce's arm and shivering with shame, a blowzy female with a long j feather in her hat. leaned over and plucked her by the sleeve. Gloria winced. The crone laughed and said: "I>on't give your really truly name, dearie." Gloria blushed a little deeper, 4>ut she was thankful for the hint, and said ; so. She advised Itoyce to do the same, j i and she sat about trying to imagine a good noni de patrol wagon. It was wasted energy for, though she didn't know it, she was going right | back to the night court she came from ?going as a guest; and not as a spectator. At that moment the police wires, were notifying Judge Freeman that a! raid had been made and a load of prisoners was coming. The courtroom was empty. The attendants were yawning.1 The judge was sentencing a young pickpocket. He dismissed court, rose and went to his retiring room. (iloria's father was there. impatiently looking at his watch and wondering where on earth his daughter was. He had searched for her in vain and returned to the place of her disappearance. The judge was taking off his robe when the attendant called him to the S Jj iv< ^ Fell Into an Uproar. telephone. lie listened, nodded his head, put up the telephone and turned t?? I'icrpoht: "We have to wait a little while. They have Just raided an east side dunce hall." IMerpont looked at his watch for the unnumbered time and paced the floor, humming: "(>. Where Is My Wandering Girl Tonight?" The old crone had fallen asleep on Gloria's shoulder, );cr hat feather was tickling Gloria's nose. Gloria and ltoyee looked at each other. She snuggled close to him for shelter. lie was very tender with her. She recoiled, remembering and suld: "O, I forgot I'm not speaking to you any more." Royce tried to appease her. She turned her hack on him. She hated him immensely, considering how much she liked him. Then the wagon hacked up. The police yelled, "All out!" Gloria recognized where she was. She "Mr. Mulry, I've G? .u'.i i 1 - - * -- win Dili IMIOW \\ IICIIHT IU III! glUU lir sail now that she was coming iuto Judge Freeman's power. "" The prisoners were hustled down an alleyway and through an iron door and upstairs like frightened sheep. Then they were herded into a big room of evil odor and uppturnncc. (Ilorla cowered before the disgrace of being one of the common victims of the law. The law looked different to her from here, and she felt aimost a sympathy for the disreputable crowd that had been gathered in with her. Then she saw Frank Mulry. She bad forgotten his existence, to say not In ing of the fact that she had abused justice and asked the judge to detain liiin. Mulry had not seen her when she whispered to the judge. The sight of her now as one of a huddle of such wretches made iiim question his eyes. lie bad tied from the snows of W estehester to the palms of Florida to escape her, ami back again, only to be eaugld in a cell as a fellow prisoner. i?ut (iloria forgot her own dubious position i11 her triumph. She advanced on him and murmured: "And now,. Mr. Mulry, I have got you tit last. 1 want to have a few words with you." "Sit down," ho said, offering her a place on a bench. "No, thanks," she answered. Hoi rose, and she demanded : "What do you know about poor Mr. Frencau's death that you are afraid' ^ . ,, . . i i<> inn inc.' aiuiry count not escape. She would not relent. "Why did he deceive me us to where he whs going? Where was he actually going?" Then, in that strange place, Inspiration came to Mulry. and he spoke the beautiful lie he had not been able to think of before, lie said: "Miss Stafford, poor Dick had nothing dishonorable to conceal from you. lie was ill. Ills doctor told him he must have an operation for appendicitis. lie would have to he in a hospital. lie was afraid that if he told you that It would endanger your health. You were so ill then, and so frail. So he concocted that imaginary, business trip, and wrote the letters. ' and as I was going on a Journey to our branch oftiees, he had me mail them. I only learned of his death when I returned." Gloria almost swooned with joy. The explanation was so like what the Dick she loved would have done that she could not doubt it. It was too beautiful not to be believed. It lighted the whole dingy cell with its radiance. Her love for Freneau came back in a blaze of splendor. She seized Mulry's hand and wrung it. She had much more to say to him, but the police began to yell to the prisoners to come along. It wns a cruel return to harsh fact, but she had once more her ideals and her mission, and she marched into the courtroom with the pride of a little empress going to her coronation. She was lo?t in the crowd, and the Judge did not see her at first. Nor did her father, who sat at his side. I The police told tiller story and j thrust Doctor Kovce forward as the chief offender. When the judge saw him he was astounded; and then Gloria emerged and the judge sprang up from his desk. l'ierpout leaped from his chair. Of all the places in the world to find his exquisite child ! The judge asked Gloria to explain. She moved around behind the bench. The officer whose hat she had taken otT tried to stop h?>r and force her nto tlie witness chair. She slapped at him. He hacked away. The judge, smiling, permitted her to march through the clerk's gate and hack to Ids own desk. Plerpont confronted her, and she paused to straighten her hat and kiss him. Then she shook hands with the j gasping Judge, drew up a chair, and , sat down to explain while the policeI man and the prisoners gaped at her. j Gloria told her story, rising now and ' then to point to Choey and the other j thugs. The Judge tried to keep his j face straight as she denounced Choey i and described his treatment of her and Doctor Royce. Judge Freeman calmed Gloria and spoke: "Miss Gloria, what does your honor wish to have done to this man?" "I think Doctor Royce has done enough to him. Better let them all oft." This was an unexpectedly popular , suggestion. The judge pondered. The .. . __ ' ^ [KSBHWlMiimHMWWlWWBWWBB^WBBBBW > ^?^tJKS>SBpBj3(^Ba / \^L'iimiBM(^^w^^M I Dt You at Last!" 1 prisoners pushed forward nnnonHnirlv m The Judge Kiniled and ordered every?? ? ,** '" * ' .-^ 1 : mtM ut?i? | ( Gloria Told Her Story. body discharged. They broke into " loud cheers. The Judge banged his i desk with the gavel. The officers cleared the court, pushing the whole \ crowd out by the spectators' gate. Doctor Royce was called up to the bench. IMerpont shook his head over ; Gloria and was cold to Royce. Gloria spoke: "Don't blame Doctor! Royce. If it hadn't been for him. t heaven knows what would have be- } come of me. It's all your fault, Judge* for letting the murderer off. I nearly ' got him, and I'll get him yet. I've got new reasons to go after him." IMerpont was too tired to say anything but "Let's go home," or to dod anyming eise. ^ (TO BE CONTINUED.) J IS GREAT FOE OF FATIGUE,1 I Excellent Properties of Sugar Should Be More Generally Recognized? t Adds to Consumer's Energy. |< If we nil understand the proper 1 duty mid function of sugar, wo should v probably be a healthier nation. The trouble with sugar is that most Of us y| eat it in such a way and at such a 'J time that it spoils our appetite f*>rjJ J more substantial food. But sugar, In spite of all the harm \ that It does when oaten in excess, .< should be recognized as one of the ! greatest helps in counteracting fa- i | tigue. Sweet and milk chocolate are | supplied liberally to the soldiers?as 1 much for the sugar as for the chocolate. And various sorts of sugar candy are given to them. And some women, , desirous to help the soldiers t,p the best of their ability, heard of this' demand for sweets and turned their i attention from knitting needles and worsteds to candy kettles and sugar, and turned out home-made fudge by the ' >ound for the soldiers. V All of us who have heard n cor tain lecturer on mountain climbing talk j know how often she pauses to say that sj at just that point she stopped to nib-il hie n cake of a famous brand of milk chocolate. At the boys' and girls' camps throughout the country a cake of chocolate is the usual aecompanU ' ment of a hike?and it is the sugar as well as the chocolate that is use*! ful. For sugar gives quick results in env] ei'gy. If you are very tired, and nllMi, hie. a hit of sweet or milk chocolate, J or eat a couple of lumps of sugar, or* | eat any sweet candy, you will feel within a very few moments noticeably refreshed. And the tired shopper whoi has not time to stop for luncheon could gain strength for the rest of her work if she would cat a cake of chocolate or some sweet candy and sit 3tUl1 for ten minutes. .i ti #. a* 1 I i i