Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, January 20, 1917, Page 2

‘ eas GLORIAS + ROMANCE- My Ti and Mrs. Rupert Hughes Novelized from the Motion Picture Play of the same name by George Kleine. ‘Coprmagh, 1900, ty Adelade M. Hoghen David another Gloria had planned to leave him, She had as it were packed up SYNOPSIS. had raised had outgrown bim. —— was married and living in Plerpont Stafford, and ruflroad | house. s, with his sixte Bi vid a : ter, orla, is ‘in at ‘alm Gloria laa vi s ut willful her heart for departure. In her lone- Toe ip ge ane CO ag ein tee | liness she understood his. ‘The look peatedly ¢ es. Her childish capers | of determination in her fice changed rause young Dector Hoyre to ftoom | to one of pity, She felt more like her auto plunges ather's mother than like a rebellious I daughter. She decided to postpone the quarrel for the ring for a few rmin- utes, He had not heard her, so she coughed. The look of joy that bright- ened his eyes when they rested on her filled her with tenderness. He love with her. at night and tn surf whe lout in t hi ria falls in love neau. Five years later shi and meets u at | We’ | a new honeymoon, | two, and have some skating and ski- au pushed back his cards and opened his 8 sl 4 She ri c < fecomes intensely jealous and “Doctor | arms to her. he ran to him and Royce discovers {n her an ally to Bunist seated herself on the arm of his chair, thwarting I RK embracing him and twisting his white Frene i é hair into a single spear as she had ing with Gloria, done from childhood. nowledge. It results in pneumonia for a “ poowe hobs family becomes incensed My own little Gloria has come home at Freneau when they leern the truth | again!” he groaned in a childish rap- Royce is summoned to alleviate Gloria's { suffering. Freneau’s fina ture that showed h blue and de- he ap proaches, muerpant Vr serted he had felt. And you're not . Doctor Royce again warns Ire 2 ae ee eat t| going to leave me again, are you?" ad “Never, daddy, never!” she sighed. of his conduct But learnin, Freneau'’s betrothal to him with dire punishment Gloria's ther David, becomes suspli- clous; } ins a trap for his wife. Fre- | neau dri to desperation by Lois’ threats agrees to pe k with her in the ave Mulry send G 8. Lola n. After | Freneau tak ave of Gh yria she sees from her window an attack made upon him when h ven to meet Lois, Doctor| Royce convinces her that what she has seen ie the result of delirium. 1 from Fre grams 4 she is al dently # reported in the p to find the murderer of her lov becomes alarmed ana tells what h loria awed Royce knows dal from envé s them In her} oping Gloria st her. mind of consp TENTH EPISODE Tangled Threads. er is a badge of! generally A ring on the fir slavery that women are proud to wear, especially when it 18 an engagement ring, with a sparkle of | diamonds Uke the price mark of a princess, saying, “ how much 1} cost!” or “He must love me a lot to have spent so much money on this diu- mond advertisement.” When Frenesu slipped the gleam- | “You poor old widower—you have a ing circlet on Gloria’s finger she had | little widow for a child. You'll never lnughed with Joy over it, never dream- | lose me now, ing that he had bought it on ¢ it and That ald not satisfy him either. mentioned her name as sec y, and I will!” he answered, still less dreaming that he had not | “Your smiles will com back and some | “I'll Find Out the Truth—the Truth!” yet freed himself from the ringless en- | day a handsome man-—" gugement to Lols, “Hush,” she said, and put her fin- When Freneau died the gems that | Ser across his ly Don't say it.” chery of the basest She bent Gloria like jeweled It sort to discuss such a topic. her head in apology to the memory of her lover. Her downeast ey caught a sparkle in the depth of her father's had looked to laughter be me teardrops of undy- ing grief. She had taken a dismal pleasure in kissing the ring and talk- ing to it as to her lost lover. When her tender heart yielded to the Jeal- stcoat packer She knew that it ousy of her father and to his author- | Was the ring he had taken from her, ity and she dered the ring to | He had not “yet put it in the safe or him her finger seemed to be suddenly | thrown it into the river. naked and ashamed of itself. Her fa- Gloria was startled. Her Ups parted ther’s delight in his victory became/| to speak the demand she had come to make. But her father was staring | into the fire with such a contented look thet she could not bear to start! such a scene as he would be sure to make, He was a great man for get- ting what he wanted and for keeping | it, once it was got. | » diamond blinked at her and “Steal me. He took ke me back by stealth. | I belong to you.” Gloria had had no previous experi- ence as a pickpocket, but she under- stood how exciting the profession must be. Her father was an unsuspecting and an easy victim. She had only to lay her cheek against his as a blind- fold and while her hair got into his | eyes and made him squirm she cap- tured the ring. She was afraid at once that he would miss it, speak of It, reach for it, and find it gone. She} dared not linger. | “Go back to your cards, you old darling,” she said, kissed him half a dozen good-nights and left. She ran up to her room and set the ring in place aga‘n on her finger, She rejoiced in it a moment. Then her heart sunk. Her father would not | tolerate a combination of disobedience and robbery. The main thing was to keep the ring. She put it in a little chain and fastened it about her neck. And there she wore it until—until her quest was ended and she had learned the truth. Much time and many ad- She Flung the Riotous Colors About| ventures lay between this night and Her Black Gown Like a Scarf. that day. Her father went back to his soli- only selfishness and an abuse of pa-| taire and did not miss the ring for rental control. hours. Then he raised a mighty poth- Her very finger ached to have its/er. He had the old butler on all THE CASPER DAILY TRIBUNE her task with an am.iytical mind. She read in the morning paper that Frank Mulry, the partner of the late Rich- | ard Freneau, had decided to incorpor- ate the firm under the name of Frank Mulry, Inc. It made her angry to | think of this businesslike haste. But | she realized that, after all, she knew nothing of Mulry and that he must her poor, know a grent deal about Freneau. visit. mination. Her brother David dropped into say: “Lois and I had a Ittle mis- | understanding, but we have made up. re going to the country house for Come along, you | ing and toboggan work.” Gloria shook her head. She had oth- er work to do. Her father urged her to make the change of scene. She sald she would think it over, but she did not intend to go, as she planned | to spend her wits on Frank Mulry. As | soon as she could get rid of her father and brother she ordered her own car out for the long voyage downtown. Frank Muiry was not at his office when she arrived. He had been sum- moned to Doctor Royce'’s office by tel- ephone. Thinking that Royce prob- ably wanted a tip on the market, and eager always for a new Mtiry lost no time In obeying the sum- mons. He found Royce in a grim hu- mor and not at all polite. “Mr. Mulry,” Royce “tegan, every word as sharp as a surgeon's knife, ‘you know more about Richard Fren- u’s affairs than you would like to tell In the open court. Miss Stafford is suspicious of everybody who ever knew Freneau. I imagine that she will look you up. It is the vh of her fa- ther and of myself that she shall not find out what a scoundrel the man was. We want to spare her, at least till she grows much stronger and time has healed her wounds a Iittle. It is to your Interest as much as ours to keep her in the dark. those letters were mailed and those telegrams sent. You know why Freneau played that horrible trick on the poor girl he was engaged to. I} merely wish to warn you that if you see Miss Gloria Stafford coming your way, you get out of her sight, no mat- t how or when. If you don’t you'll be mixed up in a murder trial that may prove disastrous to you and your business,” Mulry’s usual smile was twisted into a look of terror. He had more reasons than even Royce suspected for wish- | Ing to keep the searchlights of the press and the police ont of his office. | He was uncertain of the manner of Freneau’s death, but the published hints of suicide for financial reasons had put Mulry into new financial diffi- culties. He had used the money Freneau had borrowed of Gloria’s fa- ther to save himself from a crash. He was afraid that Stafford would de- mand it be at any moment, and he could not face such a demand. Furthermore, his part in the writing | of the letters and the sending of them }and the telegrams from the various cities was one that he could not plens- antly explain. He could think of no good He to tell, and the last person on earth he wanted to meet was Gloria Stafford. Fortunately for him, Royce’s office when Gloria arrived at his, She was received by an imperti- nent young stenographer who seemed unable to spare time from her gum chewing and her appraisal of Gloria's looks and clothes to impart any use- ful information. Gloria said she would like to leave a note for Mr. Mulry. The stenog- rapher pointed to a table whereon lay writing materials. Gloria sat down to invite Mr. Mulry to call upon her. Now Lois Stafford had also an im-} portant errand at this office. Her whole future and reputation lay in the packet of letters that Freneau had 1 mised to return to her. She was sure that they were not on his body, for had they been found the newspa- She Called at the Broker’s Office. pers or the police would have men- tioned them soon enough. To recover those letters was now her prime pur, pose in life. He was the first man to) She was happy in this deter-| customer, You know how | he was at} Gloria herself would be at Mulry’s of- | fice. The stenographer was more im- pressed by Lois’ clothes than by her attempts to be casual tn her inquiry ‘as to Mulry and “the papers of poor | Mr. Freneau.” | The stenographer murmured to the bookkeeper: “Two swell dames camp- in’ on Mr. Mulry’s trail the same day! Sc uin’s goin’ on here that ain’t get into the letters he dictates | to me.” So she did not tell Lois of Gloria's presence, and Lois went away in a turmoil of anxiety as great as that in j Gloriu's mind when she heard Lois ask yout “poor Mr. Freneau.” <A knife of Jealousy went Into Gloria’s | heart and a hideous intuition that her | beloved Dick might have bewitched Lois had bewitched herself. Tho litt too winning. She rebuked herself for allowing the suspicion even to flit through her brain and began her note to Mulry. Her eye fell on the letterhead. The branch offices of the brokerage firm were lis in an upper corner: Al- bany, Buffalo, Cleveland, Detroit, Chi- o, St. Louts, suspicion stabbed Gloria, The tele- grams and letters in Dick's writing »en sent from just those citie: that order Yet he had been d when they were sent. earliest explanation was the true 1e, and Gloria guessed it imme diately. He could have sent them to the branch offices in advance to be sent to her in order or he could have intrusted them to someone traveling ;the round of offices. Her {intuition hit on the truth, without knowing it. The very ense of the trick disgusted her. She felt herself in the shadow of some hateful conspiracy. She be- gan to doubt her own memory as to the letters and telegrams. Crumpling the letter she had begun and thrusting it into her handbag, she left the office, telling the stenographer as he A Knife of Jealousy Went Into Gloria's Heart. that she would telephone to Mr, Mul- ry. The elevator seemed to drop out Leneath her as her whole trust in man and love had fallen from under her. She reached her motor and told the driver to make haste for home. The crowded traffic, with its delays, nraddened her, and when she reached her house at last she was in a frenzy. She ran up to her desk, took from the strong box the letters and tele- grams of her lover, and compared them with the letterhead, laying them out date by date. There they were, the same towns In the same order, like a loathsome timetable of deceit. Her love revolted at the very picture of Freneau. She lost all self-control and cried at it: “Whoever killed you and whatever his reason was, you lied to me, Dick. | You never loved me, and I don't love | you any more! I won’t wear mourn- | ing for you any more.” | She rang her bell furiously and or- dered her startled maid to bring her the brightest gown in her wardrobe. | She caught it from the maid’s hands jand drove the girl out, then flinging the riotous colors about her black gown like a scarf, she broke into a | dance, flinging her lithe body into pos- tures of joy and crying out that she was happy and that her heart would | never be the fool of love again. | But she was not strong and her hysteria wore out speedily. Her heart swung back to its love again and she fell across the divan sobbing: “Forgive me, Dick. I belleve you in spite of the world. I love you in spite | of everything and Ill find oat the | truth—the truth—the truth!” . . * * * * . And now it would have been hard to say whether Gloria’s motive was one of loyalty to Freneau or of suspicion jot him. She had to acquit him of ; Worse than murder before the court | of her own heart as much as to avenge him. If he was the victim of some conspiracy, she was the victim of his. The riddle maddened her with its un- certainties. That visit of Lois to Mulry’s office seemed to involve her in Frengau’s du- plicity. Lois had confessed to the photograph of Freneau. She had said that she planned to have a miniature s of his had been perhaps a} Pittsburgh. A new) ring back and she determined to go to her father and demand it. She went down the stairway to his library with a resolute step. She marched in upon bim. He looked lonesome in his big dark room at his game of soll- taire. Wer mother had been dead for fours looking everywhere for the ring. He even had the ashes in the fireplace sifted. He suspected everybody but Gloria. She was asleep in a loneliness that was somewhat assuaged by her fidelity and her misston. . . . ° ° e . yeers and the litle girl and boy he ‘The next morning Gloria set about She thought of Mulry as the one | made for Gloria. But this seemed now most likely to be in possession of | to be only a hasty excuse, a desperate Freneau’s effects, so she called on/jlie to hide a discovered theft. She Mulry, never dreaming that Freneau | decided to question Lois further. But had told him of her own interference in | Lois was going to her country home. his plans to wed Gloria, or that Mulry | Gloria: had decided not to go. Now collaborated with Freneau in his elab- | she decided that she would. She went orate scheme to trick both women. | to Lois’ house to tell her so. Least of all did Lois dream that “Lois and | Have Had a Little Misunderstanding, but We Have Made Up.” was there. He was saying to Lois that Gloria was on the hunt and warn- ing her to be both a better wife than | she had been and a more discreet woman, just such a warning as he had given Mulry. Mulry had already taken the doc- tor’s advice. He had invited himself to the country home of a friend of his, a home not far from David Staf- ford’s. In eluding Gloria he had set out for the very region which she was about to visit in her investigation of | Lola. Gloria did not hear what Doctor Royce was saying to Lois when she was shown into the living room. But she saw that they were talking ex- edly and that her appearance con- fused them. Gloria was so discon- | certed at this that she could hardly explain her errand. “I just dropped in to say that I will accept David's invitation to go up to the farm with you Lois was so reassured by this that she exclaimed with delight. Royce said to Gloria: “May I come} up, too?” Gloria answered him icily: my rm. Good-by, Lois. walked out. Royce stared at Lois, then at the spot where Gloria had been. Gloria was angry at him. He could not im- ngine why. He could not permit her to snub him like that. He had some rights as a physician if not as a lover. He bolted from Lofs’ presence and caught Gloria just as she was getting into her car. “I'm going to take you home at once,” he said. She answered with more ice: “I’m not going home. I’m going to my father's office. Good-by.” Royce helped her into the car, hesi- “It isn’t Then she | tated a moment, then jumped In after her. Neither of them spoke all the way downtown. She was too angry. He was too bewildered. Arrived at the Equitable building, she put out her hand to bid him good-by, but he shook his head and went in with her. Entering her father’s suite, she brushed aside a protesting secretary and penetrated with Royce to the luxurious inner office. Pierpont Stafford rose in amaze- ment. “Why, my child, what are you doing down here? You're not strong enough for this.” And he looked inquiringly at the doctor. ; “I tried to take her home, but she would not listen to me,” Royce said helplessly. Gloria advanced to her father with sudden anger. “My health is all right, father, but what neither you nor Stephen real- ize is that something must be done for my peace of mind.” And drawing the photograph from her breast, she pointed to it with flashing eyes, turn- ing to each of them accusingly. “He was not drowned. He was murdered. You don’t care. You want only si- lence. But I want the truth! I'm go- ing to find it! I'm going to hunt down that man whether you help me or not!” Royce studied her with uneasy ad- miration; her father tossed his hands in despair. Royce thought a moment, then beck- oned to Gloria and said: “Come with me.” Gloria followed him out wondering- ly. Entering the corridor of the bulld- ing, Royce pressed the elevator but- ton marked: “Up.” He guided Gloria into a car that stopped for them. It was an express and shot them up to the fortieth floor. Alighting, Royce led her out to the roof. It was sur- rounded by a high wall, but a car- penter’s Jadder chanced to be there, and Royce set it up that Gloria might mount and see across the parapet. Wonderingly, Gloria allowed Royce to help her up. She shuddered as she looked down into the depths of the vast canyons. Then, in great seri- ousness, Royce spoke. He stood on the ladder with her and pointed in circle, beginning at the east and turn- hardly know hi: py saw him He To her amazement Doctor Royce| again. No one knows who he is. may have taken a ship across the ocean yonder. If he is in that city, among those millions, how can you hope to find him? Look!” The marvelous expanse of the har- bor, the rivers and bridges, and finally the enormous city, terrified Gloria, but she pounded her little fist on the para- pet and shook it at the infinite sky above her in registration of her vow. ‘TH find him somehow! Some- where! Some when!" Royce stared at her and loved her more than ever, hopelessly, helplessly. She leaned on the parapet and gazed off into space. (TO BE CONTINUED.) ~ FIGHTING FIRES IN TIMBER Aid Rendered by Alidade and Phone in Conflagrations That Threaten Im- mense Loss. Battles against timber fires in the great national forests of the West are conducted with a wonderful degree of precision and strategy, as the result of systematic operations of the United States forest service. According to the Popular Science | Monthly, a forest supervisor who may be many miles from the scene of a fire, marshals his forces and fire-fight- ing facilities and directs the attacks and flank movements of his men. Lookouts stationed on mountain peaks and other promontories that command a wide range of vision are each supplied with a plane table to which is attached a map of the sur- rounding country, its position being determined by means of a compass. The map is inclosed in a segmented circle and the location of the station is indicated by a pin. A simple all- dade (an alidade is the upper part of surveyor’s theodolite) consisting of a ruler with uprights for sighting pur- poses at either end, or some similar device, is included in the equipment. When a lookout sees smoke issuing from a portion of the forest over which his station commands a view, he immediately sights it with his all- dade and notes that it is coming from a point so many degrees east or west of a north and south line extending through his station. He notifies his supervisor by telephone, telling him of the apparent size of the fire and its location. Lookouts in other sections of the forest also detect the fire and make similar reports to the supervis- or’s headquarters. Reports from two or more stations enable the supervisor to locate the fire on a map by means of intersecting lines, Method in Reading. After having her blood curdled bad- ly by a thrilling story, Mrs. Kurious was angry to find that it ended In an advertisement for somebody's tooth powder, With a pout, she threw the paper containing the deception across the room, “What's the matter, dearie?” asked her husband. Mrs. Kurious told him her trouble and wound up with the remark: “Now, Jeremiah, I know why the Chinese people begin reading at the end instead of the beginning. Their intelligence is greater than ours.” When the Doctor Is Praised. “The Browns seem to think most highly of you, doctor. They were Draining you to the skies the other y." “Yes,” said the doctor quietly. “You see I've never lost a patient in that family—yet.” His Idea, “I didn’t know they had flats in Caesar's time.” “They didn't.” “They must have had. It says here that Caesar's wife lived above sus- picion.” - Courting That Tells. “What did two ‘such quiet people Se eee ing “Didn't have to. She has a speak- ing countenance and his money talks.” : Summed Up. 7 ae ae if Bocker—A backbone, a wishbone, funny bone and then some, = Ch, = ~~