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<n \ \ | ^ <*<* ? flv7 &y Bl fe >.mH@ s&fc *3^ ^UMM|^MMn tffwl .vJfl IwMifflM i IS! M "So I Added One More Shame [V V) I Ii<f.?^ 11K3.F Novelized From the of the Same Name ! Copyright, 1916, by ,-^w Plerpont Stafford, with his daughter Gloria, is wintering at Palm Beach. Gloria is a vivacious but willful young lady who chafes under the restraining hand of a governess from whom she repeatedly escapes. Her childish capers cause young Doctor Royce to fall in love with her. Becoming lost in the everglades she falls into the hands of the Seminole Indians. Gloria fal.ls In 1<?YA with hej rescuer. heau. Five years laler she leavdfi school und meets Freneuu at the theater; he has forgotten Gloria. Later Frcneau persuades her to forgive him. Gloria's sister-in-law, Lois, becomes intensely Jeal"ous and Doctor Royce dlscovors In her an ally. Freneau takes leave of Gloria. She sees from her window Ah Attack made upon blfn. Doctor Roy?e convinces her 1^ is delirium. A telegram followed I>jP a letter, cornes from I? reneau. She replies but her telegrams are returned. She accldentjy sees the supposed suicide of Freneau reported in the paper. Gloria swears to find the murderer. Royce tells what lie knows of KrAnAHII tr? Mr StulTArH Oln ria insists on going to I'alm Beach. She sees Mulry there. Ho leaves for the North. She is recognized by her one-time captor, the young Indian chief. He tells her that Royoe and not Freneau was her rescuer at that time. Gloria attends night court; she sees Mulry there, also the tramp who attacked Freneau. But Judge Freeman releases him. She follows the tramp when he leaves the court. She finds herself in a low saloon dance hull, and is selected by one of the patrons as his partner. Doctor Royce, however, follows her and when he attempts a rescue, calls down a riot on their heads. The hall is raided and thcrowd, including Gloria and Royce, is arrested and taken before Judge Freeman. The newspapers feature Gloria's arrest. Reporters sur- I round the house. Castmir arrives with the child Gloria promised to adopt. She orders Royce to take Casimir's wife to the Stafford home. She follows Trask and lands on a houseboat to hear him accused of Freneau's murder. She confronts him; he imprisons her, but she ties him up and escapes. tty many stages she arrives at home. In the yacht Gloria and (he men pursue the barge. Trask fires on them as they near him. In the fight that follows Trask is badly wounded. He is taken to the Stafford home. Royee endeavors to return to Hois tier letters to Frenenu. During a playful souffle Gloria sees and recognizes the envelop. EIGHTEENTH EPISODE The Bitter Truth. I I The distress of jealousy that Gloria felt at the thought of Doctor Royce's smiling and waving at someone else had had a pleasant tang, for jealousy is a phase of love. But now Gloria stared at Hoyce with abhorrence. He was repulsive in her eyes as lie ran towurd her In pursuit of the hoy Stus, then checked himself and watched her 1 with guilty apprehension when he saw j she recognized the envelope in her j hands. Gloria sent the hoy away, told him to run to his mother. She wanted | to he rid of him for the time. ?.? .1-- ? - -- 1 mivv uiw me envelope, Uloria," j Itoyee pleaded. "Give it to you?" Gloria cried. ' 'What right have you to it? I know I whose It was. I know that It was Dick's. Therefore it is mine and I'm going to keep it." "Better not," he stammered, his faculties In such a punlc that his hat fell from his hand. He stooped to pick It up, his back to Gloria. The envelope she held had suddenly revived her memories as clear as reality. Her first memory was of the scene in her room when she snatched the envelope from Dick Freneuu and teased him with it, never dreaming what it contained. Next she saw anew that scene In front of the Soldiers' and Sailors' monument which she had witnessed through the binoculars. Once more she beheld the monument in the moonlight and :VV.'V/ '* ? i to My Malfeasance In Office!" WI&7K& amrrvr niT/urc lUFIiKI tiuvaiBa Motion Picture Play by George Kleine Adelaide M. Hughes iue snowlight; the man in evening dress, with his collar up and his hat down, skulking in the shadows; then the appearance of Trask, the unexjted coming of Dick Freneuu, his pnase to light his cigarette while Gloria from ufur helplessly watched the assassin creep up on him und throttle him to dea th, ^L'rusk vanished and the skulker came by again, stumbled over Dick's body, knelt, listened to his heartbeat, then,1 satisfied of his death, ghoulishly rifled > ids pockets and took from them this i very envelope that had come back into hni* Y^/IO orv n?i u( ? - ?w ?\? ..... ikiiiuo on lui iuuMjf mrougii nit; prank of a mischievous child. Into the vivid tableau of that mem- i ory the kneeling figure of Doctor Royce fitted to perfection. Gloria had a sudden intuition that she understood the truth at last. Docor Royce had told her that her vision was delirium he-, cause It was himself that she had seen.! Ail his devotion now took on a new and hideous look. He had not cared for her. He had meant only to blind her and divert her from her revenge. He had nearly succeeded. She had fritted away her time. She had believed the Indian chief who said that it was Royce und not Freneau who battled for her and saved her. She had 1 allowed herself to think disloyally of her dead lover. She would exact double vengeance for that. She advanced at once on the kneeling Royce and cried out upon him: , "It was you, then! You of all the j I ? ? A I. . ? * - im w|mi- in iiit* worm : 1 see you now as plainly as I did that night, only I was too foolish to suspect you." "What do you mean, Gloria?" Royce asked hoarsely. "I mean that you had a share In the murder of my poor lover. You hired that beast Trask and you went there to make sure he did his work well." "Gloria, Gloria!" Hoy ere sighed, so deep and honest a sorrow in his face that Gloria was staggered. But only for a moment. Her wrath carried her on: "You made a fool of me for a long time, but you were too clever too long, and now I know?I know a little at least, and I'm going to know more. VVl.tf /It.I .. ?. 1-111 tm.i. t? njf mil jou kiii my i^ick. f" "I didn't want to kill him, Gloria. I knew how you loved him and I would have given my life to keep you from pain, then as now. You've got to be-1 lleve me." "Believe you? When you told me j that all I saw was delirium? When j you drugged me that night in the hope j that I would forget? When you dragged I his body uwHy and threw it in the river? Ugh, the horrible brutality of It!" "That'8 too false even for you to believe, Gloria," ltoyce protested. "I did not drug his body away, and you know It." "I know nothing of the sort. I fainted as you stole this envelope from his body. Do you deny that you did that?" ltoyce stood trembling with confusion. Gloria took his silence for a confession. She quivered before the continuation of her charge. From her weak hand the envelope slipped. As she bent to recover it one of the Inclosed letters fell out and the breeze j ' THE HOMtf HI blew It crisply away, opcnlnf It as I flattered. She caught It at the ftdg< of the pool. She could not help read tog It at a glance. The handwriting she recognise* without the aid of the signature. Hei brain almost refused to accept wha her eyes beheld: "Beloved Dick: Don't hate me fo compelling you to inuke this trip, bu 1 aiu frantic with jealousy of Glbrlu and If you fail me I will do soinethlni desperate. Your adoring and one adored LOIS." Gloria dropped on a marble ^bencl while the ground seemed to be shakei beneath her. So Freneau had plunne* to make a Journey with Lois! It wai plainly at Lois' demand, yet he ha* consented and arranged to go. Th* story Frank Mulry told her had beer a lie, too. Freneau hud had an affaii with Lois, with the wife of Gloria'* own brother! This treachery in her own house hold was like a nausea; it sickened her. She turned to Itoyce, no longei demanding, hut appealing: "In heaven's name tell me the truth." Royee felt that the time was over for deception. The truth could not hurt Gloria worse than appearances. "You shall have the truth, Gloria, or as much of it as I know. I tried to keep it from you because you were 111 and you were youug and I was afraid that the ugly reality would kill you. While you were still very 111 with pneumonia 1 stumbled on the fact that Freneau was carrying on an affair with?with the woman, the wretched woman who wrote that letter. I happened to overhear him tell her to meet him at midnight at the pavilion near the monument. I had known that he was a scoundrel, and had always been a roue. But you had loved him, so I hud begged him to play fair with you. And he had promised. "When I heard him make that rendezvous with?with that woman, I went right to him and told him that I knew of his vile scheme. I demanded that he break off the affair. Hesides, the woman's husband was one ,*4? ,1aO n.wl T .1^.1 o \fL iii%v uraicrtl 11 ivnun aim 1 ? uuirvi tu protect his home as well as your heart. "Freneau laughed at my earnestness and ridiculed me, resented my interference, called me meddler and a busybody. I told him I would prevent his treachery at all costs. I took my revolver with me. I didn't mean to kill him. The revolver was not even loaded. But I intended to frighten him with it. "I never dreamed, of course, that the binoculars I gave you to amuse yourself with would give you a sight of the whole tragedy. I waited and waited for Freneau to appear. At Inst I walked down the drive expecting to meet him. I found his body lying In the snow. I knelt down and listened to bis heart. It was still. He was dead beyond all rescue. "J SflW thflt pnvolrtnn tn V?lo w v.aa f All llin JMIllVrWl I didn't know what was in it, but was afraid of what it might contain. I imagined the police discovering him and the newspapers publishing what was found on his person. Before I realized what I vmis doing T took the envelope. I saw somebody coming along the drive. I didn't know who it was. I don't know now, but I ran away. "When I got back to my office T got word that your nurse had called me. I ran to your house. You told me you had seen the murder done. You had seen me without recognizing me. I told you it was a delirium like the other you had hud. I looked through the binoculars. When I went out on the drive Freneau's body was gone. I was dumfounded. I almost believed that I had imagined the whole thing myself. "I went to the pavilion. There I saw a woman, the woman, waiting for Freneuu. I told her that he had been "Don't Tell Me Any More Lies, Judge I" killed. She wus frantic with grief. I sent her home and went back to you. You were In a state of hysteria. I gave you a drug to keep you from losing your mind. "I had no Idea then, and hmvm none now, as to the murderer** name or the name of the man who took the bod? away. I had never seen this man Trask till you pointed him out to me. 1 can't Imagine what grudge he had against Freneau or whether he disposed of the body or not. He Is your captive now, and I Intend to do all I can to get the truth from him. | "I ought never to have tried to de| celve you, even for your own good. BRA LP, OOlfWAY, E. 0. If t The truth Is dtB|?rou thins to tmm9 per with. I see It now, but ray only k guilt was t longing to protect you. It was my love that led me to hoodwink j you, and now my love must bear the r punishment.** Gloria's mind was not too busy with its own .thoughts to heed the profound devotion vof his tone. Her heart ' softened toward him a little, und once i, more Freneau was on trial before her g soul. But nil she said was: e "The night court! Judge Freeman let Trask go. He tried to persuade 3 me not to pursue him agalu. Wha*. i reason did he have? He must have 1 known Trask. He's got to tell the 3 truth.'* j Koyce disclaimed all knowledge of > Judge Freeman's actions, or his l motives. He suw Judge Freneau comf lag into the driveway In his car. He 3 saw the judge's duughter, Lois, greet him. Gloria saw hlin, too, and she did not I wait. She glared at Lola with savage . distrust and curtly demanded a word . from the judge. She beckoned to him and walked away, and the old jurist . followed her like a guilty lad going to his punishment. Gloria moved nwny to a secluded bench in a bowered nook, an exquisite Grecian Inelosure more suited to a courtship than to an inquisition into u crime. Gloria motioned the judge to sit down. She made sure that nobody , was within sight or hearing, then she 1 threw off all pretence of respect for age and, seizing the old man by the : lapels of his coat, commanded him: "Now you shall speak. You are going to tell me why you let the murderer of Dick Freneau go free. You are going to tell me what you know i about hlin. 1 can only think of one reason. You know that your daughter 1 was going to run away with him and ; you had him put out of the way. It ! | was you and nobody else that hired ; Trask, and that is why you sent him ! away when he happened to he brought J into your court." I Judge Freeman smiled drearily at the accusation. He shook his head, i "No, Gloria, my child, you can't I fasten a murder oil me, and once more ! ; I advise you to keep' your pretty tin- ! gers out of the fire. If you don't you'll | destroy somebody who is very dear to ' you." "Don't tell me any more lies, judge, | or you'll burn your own fingers. You i don't know how much I have found I out. You'd better tell me what you ; know or you'll destroy your own ; daughter, for David will divorce her 1 when he learns how false she has been to him." "David knows! David knew!" the j judge retorted, driven to bay by Gloria's manner. Gloria laughed at this. "Do you suppose that my brother would toler, ate her presence here at his side if he knew? Look! there they are together." She pointed to a distant hilltop where David stood with his arm about | 1 his wife. The judge rose and glanced ( at the couple, then sank back with a groan. "He has forgiven her, perhaps, because he feels that he has committed as great a crime as hers." Gloria was infuriuted at this attack on her brother. "It's outrageous of you to try to besmirch the best that lives, lie has been blind to your daughter's treachery, but that Is his only fault." "He has not been blind. He knew!" the Judge insisted. "Listen, Gloria. On i the night of the murder I met your brother ut a club. Tie >vas greatly excited. I said, 'What are you doing here? You told me and you told Lois that you were going South for a week.' David was like a mudmun. He said: ?T only pretended to go.' He took a letter from his pocket and beut it with his hands. 'I've had an anonymous letter sent to me,' he said, 'and it's put. me on my guard. If what, it says is true, I've got to kill a man.' I tried to calm him, but a club bore came up, and while he held me David got away. "I was frightened. I hurried from the club. I went to his house. He was not there. The butler said that Lois had left the house alone and walked toward the drive. She had told me she was going out of town. I had seen her baggage leave the house. I walked over to the drive. I found Pronoun's car with a smashed wheel. Tho chauffeur said that Frenoau had left it and walked north some time before. I hurried on. "In front of the monument I stumbled over Freneuu's body. I knelt down. He was dead. I nearly lost my mind with horror. Evidently David had followed him up, had met him, and killed him, leaving the body for the first policeman to find. "It wns late and cold and the drive was deserted. As a judge, I had seen so many families ruined by some mad act, I could only think of one thing, the legal rule that the corpus delicti, the hodv of th? *1 JMirl tnnn tnno* K*? ' v ...? u./itu tan, iuuoi in; produced or its existence proved. The insane inspiration came to me that If I could get rid of that body I could save poor David from going to the chair, I could save my poor daughter from being disgraced before the whole world. I love David and love Lois, of course. They are my children. Neither of thcin realized the hideous consequences. Lois Is my only daughter. She was born with a frivolous soul. She couldn't help It. Her mother died as your mother did, before she could guide or control the young heart. David Is a splendid man; he loves Lois to distraction. He felt that his honor could only be cleansed of its stain by the blood 'of Freneau. He was the guilty dog. He led my daughter astray. He played with your I Zngggjj^^H^H^BVT'^ g:g*:?:?:g:g?&$;i wP:M? ^^HHBHH^HH^B to^^:;i^BBB||BB[Bip|W: a*A^||| jj*w?i^i^W wK'i^m** * I gS: tfrxWXv.SSgx ^EK^dttHBH |i ,- ^nHnuH ^ L :/>^I^MWNHnMH^BBHSHj|a(| :w?/f^ , v nN'-^ ':Vr ft&w u < - | |p?g ;v>^ *>^!*!^*%*vS*!*X\;>X*V^l*t^;X**t'>.<'t<%v'*^ >>! ! >!<v^^;<*%*>;*if;\<^i;'.;ty..^^^\vX;l;v*?>^' X.:,. y; xj:,>.x.:::. x-> "I Found th< trust, lie was a Mack-hearted?" "Stop!" Gloria cried. "It's cowardly to lay all the blame on the one who cannot defend himself either with lies or truth." The judge sighed and went on: "Well, let the guilt lie where the Lord will place it. All 1 know was that I had heard your brother threaten to kill a man and that 1 found the man dead a little later. All my honor and responsibility as a Judge was forgotten in the f 1 est law of a father, to protect his children from the world. ?* n~ -1 ,1 ,1 T ?~tt1 ?n1?A ??1mf X 11111 UIU llilM X V* ll I % <i i\ v; " ??? blame is mine or my children's. 1 lifted the body of Freneau and dragged it back of the monument. A policeman went by yawning and noticed nothing. I dragged the body down the steep steps and along the winding pathways, down to the railroad tracks, and across them to an old dock. "Not a human being was in sight. I ?I rolled the body off into the water. There was a splash and then I turned and climbed the hill and went home. I telephoned Lois. She answered me and said that I had wakened her from ium nirep. i uskcu ir unviu was tnere. She said that she had taken him to the train. The next day I learned that he had come back, saying that he found the journey unnecessary. "I lived in agony for a week. Then Pronoun's body was found in the lower bay, where the current had taken it. The papers said he had committed sui- > clde because of financial troubles. It j seemed best to let the secret go. What 1 could it profit anybody to tell the truth now? "When they told me that you had seen the murder done I was aghast. Evidently you did not see me drag the body away. When you pointed out Trusk in the night court, I could only believe that you had been mistaken in Sftc "|i Told Her He Had Been Killedl" ! the man, or that David had hired him. | I had not the courage to hold him and let him speak, so I added one more shame to my malfeasance in office. "And now you know all that I know. Trask is here, David Is here. If you want your brother accused In the open court of murder, if you want your family In the headlines of all the papers, then go ahead, turn Trask over to the police and I will take my punishment with the rest." | He walked away heavily as if the burden of life were breaking hlin down. Gloria stood In a daze, her mind picturing the catastrophe that must overtake the family If she were to speak. The world was very beautiful, especially here In this paradise. 8he saw David with Lois. Her heart quivered at the thought of exposing him to public shame. She thought of hlin cowering In a cell In the death house because of her determination to avenge a lover of most doubtful honor. She put off the decision till she could decide what to do. But one thing she could do without bringing down public :< ' .{. ' ' :' '.' /'"'' .'<? 'tf'M ..;: fe.v -::*'... : :? .':; '. ' *?:' : " "' ' \ &M . ? '. : " s<: >" . . ' "' i . "li'J V;' ... :. / ' ::? >*>.:** >,;V..;; !, ' ' .. * '"'$ v* '' ' ' ' :: :'>x :$;:< r ;: - \ f. -. HHpK? >' : v;'a 5 Man Dead!" ruin; one tiling she must no, and that was to drive from this paradise the evil woman Lois, who poisoned the very air. She saw a servant approach David and Lois; then David hurried to the house, lie hud been called to the teleplume, perhaps. Lois sat down to wait for him. An irresistible and very womanly impulse sent Gloria straight toward her. Lois looked up with a smile as Gloria approached. Lois*was happy. She had been wicked and escaped punishment. She had repented and been enabled to keep what she had lost the right to possess, ller husband did not know of her guilt; he was no longer Jealous. And Doctor Koyce was ubout to restore to her those letters of hers which were an everlasting danger to her till she could regain them and make sure of their destruction. Her smile faded as she saw the look of wrathful contempt in Gloria's eyes. Then she caught a glimpse of that fateful envelope which she had last seen in Doctor Itoyce's hands. How could Gloria have obtained It? Of all people in the world, Gloria was most to be dreaded with those letters in her possession. Lois' heart began to pound, i..?J ? - ... inn iniini umu tier 10 run, out ner knees could not even uphold her. Gloria wusted no time on prefaces. She said: "I see that you recognize these letters. Shall I give them to L>avid now, or have you anything to say first?'* "What shall I say? What can I say?" Lois stammered. "You might begin with the truth. What was Dick Freneau to you?" Lois shivered at liuving to make confession before such a court, for Gloria was young and clean-minded and she could not understand the trials and tribulations of a woman like Lois. \ And Gloria, too, had been wronged. Her lover had been killed in his sins. Lois realized what a hateful face vice wears when Its pink domino is ripped from Its smile. But Lois told her story, Justifying , herself by laying ail the blame on Frei neau or on Gloria. She told how Fro- | neau had won her heart In Florida, but he had been poor and David had won her from him with his wealth. Then she made the old excuse, that David had neglected her for his ambition and had left her a prey to Freneau's fascinations. Freneau had raude her utterly his and led her Into the depths of guilt only to cast her off when Gloria appeared in all her panoply of youth and innocence and idolatry. She told Gloria that Freneau had protested to her that he^ did not love Gloria, but only wished to marry her to save himself from bankruptcy and poverty. This was an unwise confession, for Gloria was revolted by the profanation of her love. x She did not believe the charge. She cried out hoarsely that it was a black falsehood. Lois persisted that it was true. But she had lost the tone of contrition and Gloria had lost all power of mercy. When Lois finished her story and > told of Freneau's plan to elope with her, Gloria's heart was hard as marble. Lois mude her final plea: "I have sinned, but I have atoned, \ and David trusts me. Give me back the letters and let our lives go on in peace." Gloria looked at her In wonder, and niirerwi: "You don't ask much of life, do you? Ton have the love of two men; bring one to death and one perhaps to crime, and then you say: 'Don't let any harm befall me. I must keep everything 1* You act a little too much, Lois." Loin stared at her In amazement. "You don't mean that you are going to tell David what I have told you?" "Ye?." "And wreck our lives together?" "That is for lilin to decide. He shall have the truth, and then he can do what he pleases." "You will give him the letters?" Gloria nodded grimly. Lois stood wavering In despair. The silence was pierced by the distant cry of a locomoI