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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<
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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
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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
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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:
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; "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
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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
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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
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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'
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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
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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
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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.
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