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SYNOPSIS.
Plerpont Sta.fford, with his daughter
Gloria, Is wintering fit Palm Beach. Gloria*
Is a vlvaclouB but willful young lady
who chafes under the restraining hand of
a governess from whom she repeatedly
escapes. Her childish capers cause young
I>octor Royoe to fall in love with her.
Becoming lost In the everglades she falls
Into the hands of the Seminole Indiana.
Gloria falls In love with her rescuer, Freneau.
Five years later she leaves school
and meets Freneau at the theater; he has
forgotten Gloria. I^ater Freneau persuades
her to forgive him. Gloria's sister-in-law,
Hois, becomes intensely Jealous
and Doctor Royce discovers in her
an ally. Freneau takes leave of Gloria. |
She sees from her window an attack made |
upon him. Doctor Royce convinces her it
is a delirium. A telegram followed by a i
letter, comes from Freneau. She replies |
but her telegrams are returned. She accidentally
sees the supposed suicide of Fre
nesui reported in uie paper, uioria swears
to find the murderer of lier lover. Royce
tells what he knows of Frencnu to Mr. j
Stafford. They seek to prevent scandal
from enveloping Gloria. She accuses
them of conspiracy against her. Gloria
sets about to run down Freneuu's murderer.
Royce warns MTilry to tell Gloria
nothing. Gloria calls on Mulry and there
sees Lois who is also worried. Gloria's
suspicions are aroused. Royce endeavors
to show her the difficulty she faces.
Gloria goes to David's country home. She
meets Mulry who flees at once. Gloria inF.isls
on going to l'ulm Beach. Again she
boos Mulry there. Me leaves for the
North. She is recognized by her one-time
captor, the young Indian chief, lie tells
her that Roy< e and not Fivneau was her
rescuer at that time. Gloria attends night
court; she sees Mulry there, also the
tramp who attacked Frenoau. But Judge
Freeman releases him. She follows the
tramp when he leaves the court and falls
into the hands or hold-up men. She finds
herself In a low saloon dance hall, and Is
selected by one of the natrons as his partner.
Doctor Rovce. 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, are arrested and taken before
Judge Freeman. The newspapers feature
Gloria's arrest. Reporters surround the .
house. Castmir arrives with the child
Gloria promised to adopt. She orders
Royce to take Caslmlr's wife to the Stafford
home. Sho follows Trask and lands i
on a houseboat to hear him accused of i
Freneau's murder. She confront*- him; he I
imprisons her, but she ties him up and
escapes. By many stages she arrives at
home. In the. yacht Gloria ami the
men pursue the barge. Trask tiros on
them as they near him.
SEVENTEENTH EPISODE
The Tell-Tale Envelope.
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Shots that are fired from Runs do
not often hit the .people they are fired
at. The coolest target puncturer grows
excited when his target is a man, and
more excited when it is a woman. Gideon
Trask wus not an expert with the
rifle. He had been crazy enough to
take the life of Dick Freneau?to
wring it out of him with his hands. He
thought he had escaped detection until,
with an appalling abruptness, Gloria
Stafford?though he did not know
her name?charged him with the murder
and declared that she had seen
him commit it bt-JV>re her very eyes.
He had not been quite crazy enough
or quite wise enough to kill her then
and there when she was alone and at
Ids mercy. He thought to repair the
consequences of his delay by shooting
her down now that she reappeared
with an armed force at her back. So
he fired at Gloria where she stood in
front of the pilothouse demanding
his surrender.
They told Gloria afterwards she was
brave as a veteran and faced the assassin
coolly. Hut she told the truth
when she said that she was paralyzed j
with fear, so frightened that she could
not even show her fright.
When the muzzle of Trask's rifle
spat at her, she hoard the bullet sing
past her ear. Site was already wondering
whether she were dead or alive,
whether the next one would strike
where she heard the first one thwack.!
The pilot grunted and mumbled: "lie
got me!"
She forgot Trask and whirled round
to see the pilot fall across his own
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nuuui. llli: J'UC'Ill WIlVClTd illHI SWerVOU
Ju its course. Gloria was the nearest
to the pilothouse. She had been a
pupil of the pilot only a few minutes
before. She ran to him, lifted him i
aside and seized the wheel by its projecting
spokes, just in time to keep
the yacht from crashing into the barge
at full speed. She made a sharp turn,
the yacht swerved and ground along
the side of the barge. Gloriu meanwhile
was alurmed more for the life !
of the pilot than her own. She began
to call "Stephen 1 Doctor Kyce!"
15lit Doctor Iloyce wus too busy to 1
hear her call. Ills immediate interest
wus not in a wounded man, but
in wounding a man. When he saw
that Trash was aiming ids rille at
ifloria again, his whole being thrilled
with a ferocity unknown to him before.
To save Gloria from being hurt
he would have massacred a hundred
Trasks.
fie leaped aboard the canal barge
before the deckhands could make it
fast. He sprang at Track and seized
the rifle he held. He twisted It out
fit Trask's hands before he could lire
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a second shot.
But he was pounced upon at once
by Jed, who pinioned his arms and
Hung him to the deck. The captain
of the yacht, following close after
Itoyce, laid hold of Jed and dragged
him away before he could harm Uoyce.
But he left Itoyce supine on the deck,
with Trask's fatal clutch on his throat.
Gloria, wondering at Roycc's not answering
her call, clung to the wheel
till she saw the cable fast, then she
ran forward to the edge of the upper
deck and saw why he failed her.
lie was in the baleful clutch of Tra.sk.
Gloria, looking for a weapon of rescue,
could find nothing but a life preserver
tied to a rope. She began to
swing it about her head in circles of
increasing diameter, like a lasso,
ft was revolving nt n vtnlrmt
when it reached Trask. It smote lum
aside and dazed hint into loosening his
grip for just a moment. This was
long enough for Royce to shake free
and regain his feet, lie hurled himself
at Trask, but Trask, seeing his
victim erect and menacing, lost courage
and ran. At the edge of the barge
he slipped and sprawled. lie would
have fallen between the yacht and the
barge into the river if the yacht had
not swung alongside in time to catch
him. It held him up, but it held him
as in a giant lemon squeezer, and it
squeezed his bone and llesh with
dreadful force.
Gloria saw the agony in Trask's
face and the sight was horrible. She
saw the >acht swing free again.
Trask's body dropped into the water.
Now the life preserver that had
served as a weapon returned to its
original purpose. Gloria threw It to
Trask. Suffering as he was, he seized
it automatically and hooked Ids elbow
through it.
Now Royce also reverted to his purpose
as he knelt down and clutched at
Trask's collar as Gloria hauled him
in like a groat fish. One of the deckhands
fended off the barge and the
yacht and kept them from closing In
again like scissors blades. Another
deckhand helped Royce drag Trasn to
the deck.
He was heavy, and his agony
seemed to Increase upon him when the
desperate necessity of swimming was
over. He fainted the moment his dripping
body was stretched out, and Doctor
Royce laid, as It were, to save his
life twice, first to bring him hack from
the swoon of pain, and then to bring
him back from the annihilation of his
shattered machinery.
Meanwhile Jed was locked in a ferocious
wrestle with the captain of
Pierpont's yacht, who called the engineer
to his aid. As the engineer
told Plerpont, "I had to knock him
senseless before I could knock any
sense into him."
And now Nell Trask, who had
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turned from one Imttle to another,
tearing now at Jttoyce and now at the
captain, recovered from the stupor
with which she had watched her father's
disaster and, leaping over to the
yacht, knelt by hira, calling to hira
with wild appeuls and threatening
ttoyce as his slayer.
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Gloria Forgot AH Her Rcsentm<
Gloria cnine running down from the ;
upper (look and stood gazing at the result
of her work with utter dismay.
Trask was crushed and perhaps killed.
Jed was unconscious, and Nell seemed
to have gone out of her mind.
liiorin felt that her head was covered
with blood guilt. The sobs of
Noll were heart-breaking. Gloria forgot
all her resentments against Nell
and her father. She forgot that Nell
bad kept her prisoner. She saw only
that Nell was a motherless daughter
who saw her father dying.
She caught the girl in her arms, bold
her In spite of her resistance, murmuring:
"Forgive me, you poor child!
It's nil my fault, but we won't let your
father die. Doctor Itoyce Is a splendid
nhvsjclan. lie saved say life. Ho
will save your father's. You can trust
him."
Nell also forgot all other emotions
in that one necessity for hope. She
turned eyes of prayer on Doctor Itoyce
and beat him on the shoulder with imploring
bands, urging him to bring her
father back. It was not Itoyce, but,
doubtless, nature that brought Trask
back to consciousness. Itoyce received
the credit and the gratitude,
however, when Trash's eyes opened
and his tortured lips moved.
Nell and Gloria were overjoyed at
the miracle, but Itoyce was the more
alarmed the more he studied Trash's
body with fingers searching everywhere
and finding everywhere the
hints of broken bones and internal !
lacerations. He pretended none the
less to be confident, for the sake of all
three, Trask and Nell and Gloria.
A bucket of water restored Jed
roughly to what wits be had. He come
! up yelling, us if the tight hud not been
Interrupted. They hud to tie him up
to keep him from continuing the war.
Ii hud tuken this much time for the
tugboat to round upon its course and
come alongside the barge. The crew
hud wutched the scrimmage with impatient
envy. They cuine aboard now
ready for carnage. They were armed
with weapons of every sort, and with
zest for blood. The yacht crew gathered
Itself to meet the onset of these
re-enforcements.
Now came the opportunity of Plerpont
Stafford to use some of the heaviest
artillery of battle?finance. lie
was too old and too little used to fisticuffs
to attack roustabouts with blow
for blow. He put up the shield of his
pocketbook. The captain of the tugboat
led his little army forward In a
wedge, demanding with tugboat emphasis
:
"What kind of pirates are youse,
anyhow, and what you beat in' up
the old man fur? For two cents I'd?"
IMerpont answered:
i "That's what I want to know. What
would you do for two cents?"
"I'd t'row de whole bunch of youse
into de river."
"I see," said IMerpont, "and what
would you charge not to?"
This stumped the captain. He could
not quite make out lMerpont's drift.
As lie pondered, IMerpont gave liini a
chance to look into the depths of a
wallet fv'.l of hills of a size and number
that had not been seen hitherto
in his circle. IMerpont kept moving
the bids under the tugboat captain's
very iio^o. They had the effect of catnip
to a cat. The captain began to
purr, also to reach out for the money.
"Let us understand the transaction,"
said IMerpont. "This man Trask is
i wanted on a serious charge. He had
escaped from the jurisdiction of Judge
Freeman. lie was probably hound for
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, in my yacht, so I came lifter him. I'll
! take him hack and deliver hiin to the
j judge. You take the barge on up the
j river and deliver it to the consignee. Is
; that the agreement?"
i "That's the agreement, sir," said the
1 captain, "pervidin' I'm took care of
proper."
"Would those take care of you?"
asked Plerpont, holding out two bills.
"What does 'C' stand for?" asked
the captain. "I can only count up to
'double X.'"
I "C stands for a hundred," Plerpont
; explained.
' "Two C's will just about take care
of me, sir," said the captain. As soon j
. as he touched the bill he touched his
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snt Against Nell and Her Father.
hat, called his crow buck to the tug
and set forth once more on his twice
interrupted cruise. l'ierpont ordered
Jed released to care for the barge. He
asked Nell to go with him. but she preferred
to stay with her father, at Gloria's
invitation.
Nell was sullen with Gloria, but
Gloria was neither surprised nor reseutful.
She would have thought less
of Nell If she had been too easily plu- i
I rated by her fa I Iter's persecutors.
I Trask was no more responsive to '
I Itovee's ministrations H<> w;i? h.?- !
wildorod with pain ami tcrrillcd by !
his captivity. lie was as little grate- j
fill as a lion that has been trapped and
hound.
To Royce ho was doubly a mystery,
both as a patient and as a criminal, i
It' ho wore guilty of murdering Fretioau,
then his life belonged to the
state, and it was Royce's curious duty,
as a citizen physician, to save Trash's
life so tlint the state might take it.
Royce had done what he could to j
keep Gloria from investigating the :
murder. Ho had lied to her, knowing
that Freneau had been killed by soiue !
person from some motive unknown to
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nstantly She Recognized the Envelope.
j him. He had told Gloria that her ac|
count of witnessing the murder was
only a delirium, lie had lost her conlldcnce
and her respect, and they were
precious to him. He did not know
that Gloria was tormented hy a dual
emotion toward him, one of suspicion
and rancor, one of gratitude and affection.
Gloria was helpless in the
! quarrel of her emotions. She could !
I neither love nor hate Uoyce perfectly,
neither trust nor distrust him.
1 While Gloria was at a little distance
' Itoyce was questioning Trask in a low
I tone, trying to persuade him to speak |
i the truth, warning him that he might j
j not have a long opportunity to un- j
hosoin himself of his crime. ButTrask's j
j mouth, distorted with suffering, was |
1 also twisted with a sneer of hate. He J
would not even answer Koyce's questions.
l'ierpont had drawn Gloria to one :
side, and he said : "Well, now that !
you've got your man, what are you go- :
ing to do with him?"
"Find out why he killed Dick," Gloria
said, "and then turn him over to
the police." I
"In spite of all the publicity?" Pier-1
pont asked.
"In spite of all the publicity," said
Gloria.
Pierpont gave up the light. He
loathed the prospect of a newspaper
j scandal, but if it had to come, he must
brace himself to endure it. He had
done nil that he could legitimately do,
and more than that, to thwart the police,
and now that the necessities of
the law compelled him to give the law
the right of way or suffer the consequences.
He resolved to turn
1 Trask over to Judge Freeman as a representative
of the law and let the
Judge assume the future responsibility.
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The Fight on
When (he yacht reached the country
house at length, Pierpont sought for
Judge Freeman, He had left the house.
Pierpont would have sent Trask on
after him, hut he was too weak to be
moved farther. Besides, ltoyce was
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tit of his medical aud surgical knowledge,
and asked for a guest room to
lodge him in.
Now Trusk was stupefied indeed. lie
had e.xo'vtcd that his enemies would
throw him into a prison cell. And
they had installed hliu in u luxurious
Chamber In a palace. And his daugb
ter was established in an adjoinin)
room whose lit tings would have sal is
fled a princess. They almost terriflcH
the poor habitant of a canal boat.
Itoyee decided to motor into the cit
to fetch Iiis surgical Instruments aim
bring out his assistant. While he was
gone (lloria stole into Trask's room J
t?> question him, but he had passed into
a state between sleep and coma, and ,
she dared not trouble him. She found I
that Nell hail fallen asleep, too, worn;
out with emotions of every sort, Gloria
stole awsiv to her own room. Sin4 (
was tired out, too. She felt that she 1
was on the brink of discoveries imit
would tin an everything to her. She ,
was a little afraid of them.
She paused at her window, and, seeing
Doctor Koyee Just stepping into
his car, she mused on him. lb4 was
an increasingly interesting mystery to
her, very much at her beck and call
in some ways, and absolutely beyond
her control in others.
lie looked hack and waved his hand.
She thought he waved to her and she
uii.-switi'u ins saiure. Tiii'ii she Raw I
that ho was signaling to someone also |
and had not soon her. It was a worn- 1
an ho was signaling to, for ho lifted '
his hat. Gloria wondorod who it was, j
and folt an odd quirk of Jealousy." It
needled her like a stitch in the side.
She would have felt a sharper stab
if she had known that Doctor Itoyce J
was waving at Lois. Lois was with
Cnslmlr's wife, reading to her and com- ,
forting the sick woman as best she I
could. The sight hud startled Doctor
Royee, as much as it pleased him.
The wild and ruthless Lois had given
up her perilous intrigues, indeed, if
she could give herself to the monotony
of ministering to the lonely and
the sick and take pleasure and pride
in such service as a substitute for a
social lawlessness that laid made her
hateful in Itoyce'e ?yes.
As he rode on into the city he felt
a great elation. lie was not a religious
man, but he loved a wholesome,
healthful soul as well as a body that
was clean and well. He had
kept Gloria from learning of Lois'
affair with Kreneau for Gloria's own
sake. Now he believed that under!
cover of the deception Lois' own soul
hod been enabled to redeem itself.
He felt that Lois had earned the
right to have hack the letters she had
sent to Freneau. Whether she would
wish to destroy them or keep them as
a reminder and warning from her evil
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past, they belonged to her and to no
one else. Certainly Royee had no further
use for them.
When he reuclied his office and -gathered
up his Instruments he took the
package of letters from the safe and
put them In hLs pocket. Then he returned
to the motor and sped back to
the Stafford country home.
!t was a long ride and he was trou*
b*ed about many things, about Gloria's
oe-ormination to probe into the se<vet?
that could mean only a cruel disillusionment
tor her, about the chances-'
for Trash's recovery, and the dangers
that threatened the St affords if the
newspapers or the police learned with
what independence of the law the prisoner
Trash had been captured ami'
held. lie wondered at his own connivance
in the matter, and he shuddered
to think how many illegal acts
are constantly committed by the most
respectable people.
When he reached the Stafford estate
he stopped the driver of his car
and got out, tolling the man to take
the case of instruments up to thehouse.
Rovce had seen Lois strolling
about the lawn in a mood of solemnity.,
lie felt that the time was appropriate'
for the surrender of the letters, lie
wondered if he had the right to deliver
them over to her. Vet he knew
that he had no right to keep them. It
seemed tiftat he had so tangled himself
in the net (ff the Freneau affair
that anything soever he did was hound
to he wrong.
He hurried to Lois and called to herShe
turned to him sadly and weakly.
He knew too much about her for to
face him without shame. He brought a
little smile of relief to her along with a
swift blush of guilt when he said:
"Lois, I have decided to give hack to
you the letters you sent to Freneau.
I read only one of them, and I have
forgotten, 1 Think, what it said. I
think you have earned them hack, and
I advise you to hum them up at the
tirst opportunity."
He took the long envelope from his
pocket and her hand was just moving
forward to take it when he saw her
blush vanish in a Hush of pallor. '
"My husband!" she whlsnered.
Royce thrust the envelope back in his
pocket .lust before he felt David's hand
on his shoulder and turned to look into
David's smile of comradeship.
Ro.vce had to play-act with all his
might to pretend a cheer that he wa3
far from feeling. Once more the loathsome
phase of deceit was uppermost.;
He could not control himself under
David's eyes and he made un excuse
to move on.
"1 was looking for Gloria,'* he said.
"She's over by the marble pool/' David
answered. Royce moved on, know-*
ing that he was watched. He did not
want to meet Gloria with those tetters
in his pocket, but he must go on with
the role.
Gloria seemed a figure In a painting
as she stood at. the edge of the blue
water in its white frame, with the formal
shrubbery and the graceful colonnade
back of her. The boy Stns was
on one knee at her feet. He was sibling
a tiny sloop on the tiny ocean.
As soon as Gloria saw Royce she
beckoned to him with a cordiality that
she regretted at once, remembering
that someone else had waved to him
before. Having just seen him speak
to Lois, she felt sure that it was to
Lois that he had waved when he left
the house.
When St as saw Doctor Royce he left
the sloop to its fate and ran whooping
to hiin. Royce caught the child in his
hands and tossed him high, then
brought him to the level of his shoulder
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drcn and children loved him.
lie did not notice that the little*
groping hands of Stas had happened
on the envelope full of Freneau's letters
and lifted it stealthily from his
pocket. When he set the boy's feet
on the ground again Stas ran away,
brandishing the envelope and challenging
Royce to a game of tag.
Royce's heart bounded with alarm.
If the child had carried a stick of dynamite
in his hand it would hardly
have been more dangerous.
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vi>tc 1.11*3 iuiuT) my ooy,' itoyce
said, putting out his hand.
Stas laughed and ran a little farther
off. Itoyce followed, demanding. The
more anxious Itoyce was the more Stas
liked the game.
Itoyce was In mortal terror lest the
letters fall from the envelope and
somehow Gloria would learn their nature.
He made a dash for Stas. Stas
whisked behind a Juniper and circled
It. Itoyce chased him through a cluuiu