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at byNP.^MKiT.R Novelized From the ] of the Same Name Copyright, 1916, by i SYNOPSIS. Plerpont Stafford, with his daughter Gloria. winters ?t Pnlm Ttr?ne>i io a vivacious but willful young: laxly, llor childish capers cause young Doctor Royce ] to fall in love with her. Dost in the everglades she is captured by the Seminole Indians. Gloria falls In love with her 1 rescuer. Freneau. Five years later she i leaves school and meets Freneau at the theater; he has forgotten Gloria. Datcr 1 Freneau persuades her to forgive him. < Gloria's sister-in-law, T,ois, becomes Intensely jealous. Freneau goes sleighing > with Gloria. It results in pneumonia for j Gloria. Doctor Royce !y summoned. Freneau's finances being low, he approaches i IMerpont Stafford. Dols threatens him with' . dire punishment. Her husband, Gloria's 1 brother David, becomes suspicious. Fre- I > neau plans to have Mulry sctid Gloria a bunch of telegrams. Gloria sees from her' window an attack made upon Freneau. t l'o? tpr Jtoy e convin* 8 her it is delirium, j n J^ter, a telegram, followed by a letter, i comes from Freneau. Sue replies, but her J telegrams are returned. She sees the' supposed suicide of Freneau reported In the paper. Gloria swears to find the inur- ' derer of her lover. Rovce tells what he 1 knows of Frep^au ,V'? Staged. t,i. getlier tltey i<eef: to prcN e:it* 5 'AndaT fiofii 1 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 Reach. Again she sees Mulrv there. He leaves for the North. V1',. fv? i-p, d hy 1 r one time captor, the young Indian chief, lie tells her that Royce and not Frcncau was her reseller. Gloria attends night court: sho sees Mu'rv there, also tlie tramp who ;i 11 n a/] i ! o n! i nut T'it]rrc !"'rcc m i *i 11 releases him. She follows the tramp when he leaves the court, and falls into tin hands of holdup men. She finds herself in a low saloon dance hall, and is selected hv one of the patrons as his partner. l>o< t<ir Royce, however, follows her and when he attempts a rescue calls down a riot on their heads. The hall is raided and the crowd, including Gloria and Royce. is arrested and taken before Judge Freeman. FOURTEENTH EPISODE W-o ' ' I The Floating Trap l- -" ' "Tilnnk heaven, nobody knows of your escapade," Plerpont Stafford was .hist saying to his daughter Gloria. | She had declined to he frightened by , 1 his scowl and had almost won him to a smile across his breakfast coffee cup when his eyes fell on the headlines ^ of the morning paper. He nearly went 1 over backward. The butler, who was k stealing a glimpse of the headlines ^ over his master's shoulder, nearly 1 went over forward. Plerpont threw the paper down In a ll rage. Gloria picked It up. and what ! she read eased her mischievous smile 11 with one whisk. This is what she read: | ^ ? POLICE NET GLORIA STAFFORD, t: 'ii Millionaire's Reautlful Daughter, a Hecent Debutante, Caught in Raid on n East Side Dunce Hall. 1 1 Dr. Stephen Koyee Battered In a Brawl. I < . ( Gloria was stupefied. She sat In a e daze while )wr father went through 11 the other papers. Equally hateful t headlines or worse were in all of them. < He pushed them before her. She c pushed them to the floor. Then broth- i er David came in, his hat and over- i Gloria Telephones For Doctor Royce. 1 i i coat still on. Tie carried a bundle ( of papers, too. He was furious, (florin 1 meekly waived him and his papers i u way. IMerpont glowered at her. David < sat down and glowered at her. 1 The miserable silence was Invaded j by the second man who appeared and i reported: mam5 mot mkmb? Motion Picture Play by George Kleine Adelaide M. Hughes "If you please. sir. theres uu unny of reporters at the door." Gloria throw up her hands In surrender. David sprang to his feet. Pierpout pushed him back and stalked nit in a towering I'urv. He ordered Ihe newspaper raiders off. They bombarded him with questions. He had :o take refuge in the house. He retirned to the dining room livid with vrath. He ordered the servants out.. Lie thundered at Gloria. "Now you see what would have ban >oned if you had told the police about our delirium !" lie stormed on. nioria trying1 vainly o break in. 0\t last he was exhausted md she spoke: "Hut, daddy, It was no delirium. ( I /v ^' 8 "*>, TU? r* : OA- _ o . . iv uuuci vjivcot oids a oam. M .. i saw poor Dick murdered. Jmst night iroved it. for I saw the \nun who Hied Iiiin. Why did the judge let liini o. Why don't you want him cup- ' urod?" Piorpont stared at her, then took or to the window and pointed to he crowd of reporters, I'l shook the ewspapers under Iter e\;s, saying: My one and only reason for silence i $ this publicity! It Is horrible!" 1 To one of Gloria's training and posi- 1 ion the reporters were almost more ' tortious than the police. Suddenly she stared and pointed out >f the window at two forlorn, ragged igures strolling up the drive as if ' hey had wandered from the slums ml were lost. They were the waiter, 'asiinir, and his little boy, Stas, whom Iloria bad befriended at the night ourt. She had forgotten thetn and iow they arrived at the most inopportune moment. Casimir had Gloria's nrd in his hand. He saw the reporters and grew uneasy. lie pushed hrough and rang the doorbell. Gloria nsisted on their admission and greet-' d thetn warmly. Piorpont stared at the shabby waitr in disgust. He looked at his watch, ie started to go. Gloria nabbed him. the told him that she had promised be waiter a job. Pierpont said be bad 10 jobs for writers. Then he ordered iloria to lunch with him at the Hankrs' club. "Tire very idea," site exclaimed. ''Get 'asimir a job there." "In those clothes?" Piorpont exhibited. "liny him a new outfit," was Gloria's iolut ion. Piorpont was enraged, but she bad lor way as usual, and be motioned be waiter to come with him. Casimir issed Gloria's hand. The boy tried o follow bim and clung to him in tor nr. (llorlai knelt down mid rallied tlm ?oy. Slas ram to her and let Casiinir ;o with IMerpont. The hoy Sins looked about the room s if he were in heaven and (lloriai the ringed angel that flew there with him. le threw his arms around her amain I est he fall baek to eairtli. The butler i ta horror took the boy's dirty hand i rom Gloria's shoulder and tried to l leaanse .it on a napkin. It blackened ; he napkin, but the hand was not isibly bleached. Gloria laughed, put the boy in a luiir ait the table, .and called for inger bowls. The butler brought two. i Jloria called for soap and a towel. I'his wais appalling. The butler ulnost mutinied. Then she waished the hi Id's hands with soap In the linger m>wIs. They turned out to be suririsingly white. She drew a wet towel down his hook and it left a white canal. She niirrti/wl n rrn I ?% K*i4 * -?-** ?1 -- ? <i iikiiiii, iiiii iiniif MMirnyi nuw mnderod h minute, then made up her nind and motioned to tiio butler; 'Griggs, what he needs is a bath. You j THE HORRY HERA \111 may give him one." 1 Old Griggs muttered nnd shook his head. Gloria gave him one of the looks she ruled her father with. "llun along now, while 1 telephone for a Complete trousseau for hi in." Griggs groaned. Stns. did not want to leave Gloria, but she kissed hlw I carefully selecting the clean streftk on his face, and assured him that Griggs | was a nice man. #he watched while j Griggs led the boy by one clean linger to the servauL*' wing and one of its bathtubs. Then she ran into her own | room. She called up her father's tailor, only to learn that it would take three weeks to make the hoy's clothes, lie could not possibly wait! She banged the receiver on the hook and ran through the telephone book till she found the number of a large men's : furnishing establishment. A dainty i gentleman answered the telephone. I "Send ine several of everything a boy has to have," Gloria demanded. ' When the clerk ventured to ask what his measurements were Gloria an- j swered, "Measurements? llow do 1 know? Do you have to have them?" When he said that he did, Gloria ; called for her maid, a pencil, a tape measure, a piece of paper, and ran to I the servants' quarters. She was about to enter one of the doors when she caught a glimpse that made her retreat. Old Griggs, with cout off. sleeves' rolled up, and a towel for upron, was just lowering the boy into the steaming water. He dropped the boy* with n splash and. whirling. Hung himself against the doOr. He si>oko* through it in a shocked maimer, motioning the boy to hide in the suds. Gloria ox-i plained, Griggs opened the door a little and clutched the tape measure, i He took the boy's dimensions and called them out to Gloria, who repeated them to her secretary-maid. Griggs had to thrust his arms into the water two or three times to reach the hoy's knees and heels. lie was most gloriously unhappy. Gloria ran hark to the telephone and resumed negotiations with the clerk. When he had transcribed the numbers, lie promised to deliver the goods in a .jiffy. A jiffy is a long time to a hoy just out of a tub, and when Griggs explained to Gloria that Stas' entire wardrobe consisted of one Turkish towel unn two safety pins, she had more thinking to do. She solved the problem by sending her maid to fetch u pair of her silk pajamas. P?y and by there was si knock at the door. and Griggs carried in Master Stas. The pajamas were worlds too i I?ilt for him. hut he was almost unree- ) ogni/.ably improved?white and pitrtc with curls of gold and the eves ??f a cherub. The laundries do not always i send things buck better than they went, but Stas had gone out a gritny pauper and he came back n prince. Gloria embraced him, called to the maid for a pair of her satin mules ; for his hare feet, and took him in her lap and combed his curls. He was her new doll, and she wept a little j Into those curls to think that she 1 would never have a child of her own. I She remembered her own childhood ! and the nursery where she and her | brother had been indulged in every toy ' that money could buy or ingenuity invent. She hastened up to the great room which she had not visited for years. 1 Poor Stas had never had any nursery besides the streets or any toy except some pitiful makeshift. He did not really know how to play. Gloria had to teach him. Tie was an apt pupil with the horn and drum. He pounded and blew till Gloria covered her ears. He tried to climb the hobby horde u ill. ??.? . ill...... .. !!! ?? ' *? n ii ii i in- ut uni >1111 oil. Ill' goi '"I head lirst on the other side, but he soon mastered tin? tierce steed. His attention was attracted by u pic- 1 ture of Indians on the walls. They were doing a scalp-tango about a white 1 captive. St as wanted to know Jill about it. He had thought Gloria an angel before, but she grew still more wonderful when she told him that she herself had been an Indian captive. Ho seemed to bo a tritle disappointed when he learned that she bad never been honored l?\ being tied to a stake. She saved herself a little by explaining: "I might have been worse than tied to a stake if I hadn't been rescued by Mr. J re?I mean, Doctor Itoyce." Then she fell into such a deep meditation that Srns could hardly recall her to finish the story. It was not yet ended when the butler and the second man marched in with two lowers of' pasteboard boxes?Stus' trousseau had arrived. i ^' I ~'n ' '/ : ..> ? K'-IW ' : *.Thank Heaven, Noboc >LD, CONWAY, S. 0. Now there was excitement. Indeed, and Gloria and Stus forgot the lucre Indians in the thrill of dressing and being dressed, (florin began to feur I that she hud adopted a hopeless fop j when she saw how Stas strutted in | his linery. Iu his knickers and frilled shirt, his starched collar, silk tie, patent leather shoes, and derby, hat, he lo-iKod like a pocket Beau Brununel. And then her rapture turned to alarm The boy began to cough, to turn red and purple in the fuce, and to shake with paroxysms. * "O, dear! O. dear!*' Gloria moaned; "he's had a bath, and it's given him pneumonia. The doctor! Quick, 1 must get him to the doctor!" I>r. Stephen ltoyee was trying to practice the proverb, "I'hyslcian, heal thyself." lie was dressing the wounds of battle he had received the night before in Gloria's defense, lie was plastering his tist and approving it for its good work when a caller was announced. It was Lois Stafford. She had repented of her affair with the dead Freneau and was trying to live it down. Idleness was both temptation and distress. She wanted to know if there was not some work she could do. Itoyce told her that there were always poor people fii plenty and lonely sick, lie cave her the nddross of ?om?? of his patients who would never pay,! hut whom he' treated with none thej less care. As she was leaving she met Gloria coining in with the hoy. ltoyce was disgusted because Gloria looked angry, lie should have been delighted at thej hint of possible Jealousy. Gloria cold-1 ly informed him of the boy's bath, and lis terrible consequences. She made the boy cough for the doctor. I ltoyce did not seem to be as much impressed as Gloria had been. lie set the hoy to laughing and got him to i>tit out his tongue by making faces at him which the boy mocked. Then he said: "It's nothing. Just a little tickling in the throat, oh?" "1 guess so," Stns confessed. "I am 4 I I . . 1 ..11 M t i v i\ n ' l ?til W \ v* I lie gave the boy a lozenge for medicine and turned to Gloria. She asked him again why he had tried to deceive her about the delirium. "W|o don't you toll me the truth now? What is Lois to you?" I Joyce protested that Lois was noth-1 ing to him and that a doctor has his secrets?like a priest. Gloria was furious. She gathered up the child and was about to storm out, but she) paused, meditated, whirled, and went to him impulsively. "Forgive me. You saved my life' twice. You fought for me then, why against me now?" ? ii.. ...i ... H-- "? .... i ii- <in.-? v> t*i ? ?i Niiiiy, " i inn nor ngntIng against you, Gloria. Some day you will know it, but not from me." Gloria went out sadly and Hoyee indulged in a little delirium of his own, cursing Ids luck in managing always to have his devotion misunderstood. lie was glad that Lois repented her liaison with Freneau, but he wished that she had chosen some other person for father confessor or some other time to cull. 1 n the majestic blue dining room of the Hankers' club. Gloria found Casimir already installed. Hierpont's inllueiice had secured the engagement for him and money had provided thej neat costume that changed Casimir almost as much as Stas had been changed. The captain waiter placed a cushion on a chair for Stas and motioned Casimir 4o lift him into it. Casimir had rot \ci recognized his own hoy, disguised as he was with n bath and rich men's clothes. Hut Stas recognized his father and hugged bin with vigor to the amazement of Ann ; Ilortensia, who had been invited t? the luncheon so that she and IMerpon might agree on some new interest fo , Gloria. They agreed to postpone the! task till after luncheon. By that time, Gloria had llown. As the luncheon neared its hist course Casimir was beckoned out by! an anxious-looking waiter. When he rot timed he was evidently suffering a , great emotional strain. lie made blunders and was so excited that when I'icrpoiit rebuked him Gloria took pity j on iii111 and nsked him what the trou- i i?ie was. Tin' captain was aghast. Kur a waiter i<? have personal troubles; (hiring a im al was as had as for a soldier lo slop a battle to write a letter Inane. I'at (Iloria was "she who must: he obeyed." Cashnir told her that he had Just r*?- ' eeived word that his wife had boon s? nt hack from the hospital, lie hroke j down and citing to the weeping Stas. ! Gloria could not understand. She ly Knows of Your Escapadel" | i? :.:'::::J;X-: x : : '-';:.: - :: * *** Iv. * Ml \ <s : ^SySW? She Heard Voices 01 said, "Hut I should think you would ho uhul to lwivo your wifo sont hack." "No, no," ('asfn)ir sohhod. "Poor people who aro ^oin^ to die are sont away from tho hospital so thoy will not dio there." Gloria was furious. She proposed to investignte the iiospituls and turn out ilm fiends in charge. Meanwhile she insisted on going to Caslmir's homo smd taking Casimir with her. Siie paused only to telephone Poctor Iloyre to meet her tl.ere. lie was difficult to understand as a man. bill as u doctor he was ideal. So Gloria dashed away with Casimir and Stas, while ilortensia and Ficrpont iield up tlieir hands in despair of her. When (florin's chautfeur and footman heard the address she gave them they thought they had misunderstood. She repeated it in most positive tones. They raised their eyebrows in a way that insinuated, "What next?" < 'oineideiwes do happen now and then in real life?not quite so often or so graceful I y as in liction. and yet once in a while. In fart, coincidences make life what it is. And so it el.anred j that the murderer of I>irk Freneau whom Gloria had followed fretn the. niglit court had found a hiding place in fhe same block where Casimir lived. Gloria recognized the region as soon as her limousine turned into it. She recognized the saloon and dance hall where she had found and lost her man. Hut she did not recognize the murderer's daughter In th?? cmwii th*?t gathered about the unusual limousine whyn it drew up along the garbage cans. Ni'll Trask was looking for her father, and siio pnusod to see the line lady descending l'roui the palace car. In Nell's arms was the child of Richard i'reneau, a beautiful creature like itas father. Gloria. hurrying through the crowd, could not help pausing to admire the baby and to t .veak the little linger it held up. There for a moment the two women paused with Dick Freneau's child between them; and neither dreamed that the other had over heard ol him. (lloria passed on into the ti nement and Nell went to! seek her father. When Gloria was led up and up a gloomy staircase to the one .dismal, barren room which Casimir and his; wife and their child had had to call home, she felt that she had no right to' complain of any woes that had befal-! leu her. The sick mother was outstretched on tut old bed by a (lark window. A! neighbor's wife, who introduced her-J self as "Mrs. Slatlerv, tlmnk you kindly," was sitting by her. Casitnir ran to his wife, and gasping with terrorj tit her appearance, dropped on hisj Juices. She embraced him with long white arms so gaunt that they frightened Gloria. Stas ran to the other side of the bed and clambered up.! I lis mother turned, stared at him, and only realized after a long look tliafi lie was hers. Then she gathered him| to her poor bosom with a sob of piti-l fnl rapture. Mrs. Shitter.v riihhed off n chair with her apron and invited Gloria to rest herself, hut Gloria went to Casimir's wife. The wretched woman clutched her hands and h-dd them to her cheek, while Stas and Gasimir both explained to her who Gloria was. They told her wind miracles Gloria had performed and they plainly hoped for another, but Gloria was filled with a dread that money , would he useless here. She promised glibly, but her ,heart felt helpless. Docior Royce came at last and she had some hope thstt he might redeem the life of the victim of life. He made his examination and spoke cheerfully enough, hut Gloria was sure from his tbne that he was lying, too. She led him out into the hull to question him. He shook his head gloomily. Gloria protested. iirt.. i i? it i - - imh sureiy mere must ne some way to help her!" 44I)Iof In this cavern," Doctor Royce Insisted. "Of course if she were in the country somewhere?in the air under the sky?rbut what chance has she j I t I ? * F Anger Coming Up. I of that?" I That was so easy that flloria lai:f'h? (I aloud. "()!?. if that is all, I'll furnish the air ami the sky. I'll take them till up to our country place tit once. You get them ready. I'll no P II my father that we are expecting guests." 441>111 what will he say to?" "What does it matter what he savs?" said (tloria as she ran hack into the dingy hall to scatter good news like llowers. She ordered Itoyce to attmid 'o the details of transportation and hurried ,iw:i\ to infortu her father that she led invited three strangers to Ids < I-I.icy e.-tate. tllofia's feel sl.ipj < I d* .v11 'lie stairway and she was lie,aiming as she stepped into the limousine and loin the footman, "The olliee!" The oar started and was checked altnost at onee hy a tangle of trucks. (Jloria, looking ahout Impatieaf ly, caught sight of Nell Trask and her father just leaving the opposite tenetn nt. She recognized the <?1?1 man. She was dumfounded. As she gazed, they were lost in the crowd. She saw that the car could not he turned around, livery moment was precious. Immilsc told her not to 1n<?? thiu clous chance. S.:e obeyed impulse. Without pausing to inform the elmuf- Ti feur, Gloria openod the door, dropped out, tind run sifter the Trnsks. She picked them up again after a while. She saw n policeman. She resolved to order him to arrest the criminal. As she hesitated, she saw Trask stop and tenderly relieve the weary Nell ot her baby's weight. He fondled and nuzzled the child and laughed with a grandfathcrly foolishness. Gloria turned away from the policeman. She followed at a little distance,, wondering what to do. The host thing would he, she felt, to find out where he lived. She followed for blocks. I The Trnsks climbed the stairs of the elevated. Gloria went up after them. M She took the next car on the same I train. It seemed that they would ride M on forever. Far uptown they got out. S Gloria got out. She trailed them at I a greater distance now because the fl streets wore sparsely populated. The street sloped sharply down to the B river. Moored to the wharves where B a number of huge, cumbrous barges. B To one' of these the Trnsks clambered, fl They wer?t down into it through a I cabin door. H Gloria was in a plight. She had fl traced her fugitive to his ho ne. Put fl his home wa? aJ>out to move. A tough* fl looking tugboat with a tough-looking I crew was already fastening a towllne fl i' ^ He Did Not Really Know How to I Way. I to the bntp:o. There wns no policeman I i in eight anywhere. The men loitering H I