Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, January 22, 1917, Page 2

| oA iT TL Novelized from the Motion | Picture Play of the same | \)\ |!) name by George Kleine. Copynghs, 1910, by Adelante DL Hughes SYNOPSIS. flirtation, Preparedness was Mulry's ——_ motto. Pierpont Stafford, with his daughter Gloria studied him a moment. This lady who chafes under the restraining | lover. He was too amiable of mien} : cae tier childien ‘copera | to be accu of such a crime. She Doctor fall tn | acquitted him of wishing to do away ? Oe ie nr| with Freneau. In fact, the papers ia rescued | said that Freneau’s death had nearly wrecked the bankrupt. Gloria did not her father had given a lar eau} money to Freneau a few days before m. Mulry did not look know that meets Freneau at t forgotten Gloria, Glorls one dream is shattered perasusies he: to forgive ls deat < ¢ "7 t ing petaueceuther to forget $| hls death and that Murly was living Jealous and Doctor R rs inj on that. 1 wt pent with| There was a shifty fllppancy in ults in Mulry’s eyes and manner that made family & Gloria distrust him. She felt a little d distrust of her dead lover for having such a man asa tner. The hateful proverb about “birds of a adk fford for a warns Fre- neau of his onduet is, learning | poothor a “pn ? ; of Frencau's betrothal to Gloria. threat. | eather” ran through het mind like a ens him with punishment ; fer|tune In any case, here at last was husband, Glor brother David, be- Sava ie mana < 5 comen teier Freneau driven to} ‘he man she sought, and ahe was im despefation by Lois’ threats agrees to| patient to question him. There were Spend a week with her in the Catskills. | 4, Toate Pra - He plans to have Mulry send Gloria a |'00 Many people on the crest of the bunch of telegrams. Lois’ husband|hill to periwnit of conversation there. threatens to kill a man. After F ; ; : - » nani talon ofa Glotin cane he So she dared him to a toboggan ride. from her win an attack made ur He accepted, She got aboard and him when t es to meet I Doctor he steered. They swooped like a de- seending airship. Sut at the foot of the hill the toboggan careened and slid them deep into the drift before It capsized. Royce convinces her that what she has seen is the result of delirtum, Later a telegram, followed by a letter, comes from Freneau. She replies but her tele- grams fre returned. The first morning she ix allowed from her room, she acci- tly sees the supposed suicide of Fre | | pau reported in the paper, Mulry, for all his bulk, was agile | ria swears to find the iqur 7 | lover Royce becomes and he was soon helping Gloria to her | telly what he knows of Fi feet. Stafford. Toget k to pre-- nah vent scandal from envel ne Gloria “Thank you a million times, Mr. | She accuses them in her mind of co® | Mulry,” she sald. “You saved me from splracy against her. Gloria sets about : dea to rin down Freneau's murderer. | drowning in the snow, Royce warns Mulry to tell Gloria noth » be . rong y =| inavcttioriac calle On vatuire mud thare He beamed and congratulated him: sees Lois who also is worried. Gloria's | self on making such success with this suspicions are aroused. Royce endeave pretty creature. nized her. of her in He had not recog- | He had seen photographs ‘reneau’s possession and he had seen her at the opera. But she was disguised to him now by her | close-fitting cap, her rough sports suit jand, most of all, by her coquettish | ors to show her the difficulty she faces ELEVENTH EPISODE The Fugitive Witness. Aroused’ from its winter sleep, Da- | smiles. Suddenly he had to leap for vid's country house was aglow with | his life to es @ another scooting to- gvod cheer, Gloria, her father, Doctor | poggan. On It were David and Lols Royce, and David and Lois had come up to play for a little, to throw off the famlly t ly and the formal duties of thelr city life, and to forget them selves boisterously in the open. For men and women resting in the shadow of a crime the behaved strangely like children turned out in the yard to play after a rainy day's imprisonment. They ran through the house shouting hilariously to one an- other ns they found thelr skates and wraps for a trip to the frozen swim- ming pool. The dogs added greatly to the excitement by loud barkings of “Come on out” and by a remarkable gift for getting in the way. No one played harder than Gloria. She was trying to convince the others that she had put the mourning off her mind as well as her body, She want- ed to find out what her people were concealing from her, and why. The Stafford family lark was soon invaded by neighbors. A toboganning party from another country house ap- peared. There were no Invitations or only mumbled words, for ceremony and a young man from the same house party of which Mulry was a member. “Hurt yourself, Gloria?” David sang out. “Did you get hurt, Miss Stafford?” the other young man cried. Gloria shook her head and called afcer them, not noticing that Mulry’s eyes were popping and his jaw droop- ing. He had pieced the name to- }gether. “Gloria Stafford!” He had come up here to escape her and he had just coasted down the hill with her, and she knew his name! He re membe Doctor Royce's warning of | the danger of meeting Gloria face to | face. | He pretended to be suddenly tl. He begged Gloria’s pardon and said that he must go home. He was too big for Gloria to hold and she could not run after him without attracting atten- tion. She stood bewildered while he got awa Later telephoned to his host and to speak to him. She j learned that he had just taken a mo- | tor to the train, Md Gloria fergot her suspicions of Lois in her newer suspicions of this man Mulry He was evidently running away from her. Therefore she must pursue him. His flight was evideace of some mysterious guilt. Gloria cut short her visit to the count and announced her intention }of going back to town at once. Her father and her brother were used to her whims and did not oppose them | nowadays out of pity for her. | The hext morning Gloria made an- other journey to Mulry's office. She | went eurly within business hours. The stenographer told her that Mr. Mulry had gone to Palm Beach the night be- fore with a rich cient who had in- yited him to be his guest. Gloria was furious at this new es- }eape. She pondered it all the way | home. When she saw her father she told him that be was not looking at she usked | | j lost him in the maze of the ba | all well; he needed some golf and surf | bathing. He ought to go to Palm } Beach. He accepted the suggestion }heat'i!*. He was more than willing jto t take the golf and he was eager w get Gloria out of the region so worried | of her serrow. He was lover her swift alternation of gloom }and gayety that he invited Doctor } Royce to came along as a member of had no place among flying snowballs, | the family party. He did not have to and dignity could not be kept up after | ask Royce twice. . a bump on the ice. Gloria had not been to Florida dur- Gloria found herself the victim of | ing the last five years. To her it was the attentions of a large, jovial man | not so much a flight from her romance whose playfulness was a little too] as a return to its birthplace. It was at heavy for her liking. She was about | Palm Beach that she had met her fate. to spub him when someone casually | It was there that she had made her alluded to him as Frank Mulry. girlish escapade in David's racing car, Gloria staggered in the snow at] and wrecked it in the everglades. It meeting thus by chance the man she | was there that she had wandered inte had tried In vain to overtake in town.| the heart cf the wilderness und into Mulry, never imagining who she was, | the heart of the young Seminole chief thought that she had slipped on the | who would have forced her to be his 4cy snow; be put out his hand to catch | squaw, if her brave Freneau had not er, Moulry was always ready for | rescued her from him. And now her This Was the Partner of Her Murdered Lover. ¢ ~ ’ a a Ae THE CASPER lover, who had escaped the dangers of the jungle, had been slain on River- side drive; het romance had ended in vanity and despair. She found the pleasure paradise al- most the same. A little more gorgeous, perhaps, but all the gloomier for that. She had come from the white North into the sudden July of Flori and her heart ached anew remembering how love had bloomed in her life un- der the tropical sun of Freneau’s eyes. It was lke going over an old album of souvenirs to revisit the scenes of that far-off yesterday. The same throngs seemed to be dancing the same dances, | bounding through the same waves, still pping their tea under the palms in ‘he royal gardens of the Poinciana. She had almost forgotten her pur- | pose in coming here when she caught sight of Frank Mulry's broad b was rolling along briskly. not know that he had caught sight her first and made off in disgust and amazement at discovery of his new retreat. She dared not run after him she could not keep pace with him. of her and She riding in one of chairs propelled by dar- the familiar “afromo- Later she 8: the rolling kies on whe biles” of Palm Beach. Poor Mulry s winded by his speed and he wanted ts got w But he canght a ria, also chartering un his horror her afromobile r or his. He 1 not put bac his hotel. He ordered his driver to turn down a bowered path and to give him ail the steam the black could af- ford. The motorman was vigorous, but the passenger was heavy. Gloria was light, but her African was w It was any body's race with every prospect of a spill for one jockey or the other, since the paths were filled with dawdling strollers and the bicycle had come back into fashion. Everywhere wom- en in exquisite dresses were roving about on pedals. him ‘us host's cot- glimpse of afromobile, To * “g Fe sy toe é 4 ek lp, Maxoias = Told Her Father He mobiles also eluttered the race course, Now, Gloria gained and was about te head off her man, when a messenger boy ona wheel cut in ahead and it was necessary for Gloria's chauffeur to back pedal wildly or endure collisf8n. Mulry would shoot ahead and rejoice at bts triumph, only to find himself in & ‘tangle of pedestrians. His one- darky power machine began to feel the | effects of his bulky cargo. Mulry ap- plied gasoline in the form of a dollar bill brandished in front of popping, white eyeballs, and that gave him the ndvantage for a time. But even money cannot furnish everlasting power, and the heavy breathing back of him told Mutry that his engine was about to die. He looked and saw that Gloria’s car had taken a wrong tu and shot down another avent gave three silent cheers for hir Thus ended one of the most blood- eurdling rolling-chariot races Ben-Hur’s day. Mulry paid his ex hausted man well and took the neares to the cottage where he was guest. He did not leave it that night, and it wus well, for Gloria Lunted for him everywhere. She would not dance, though many asked her. The music hurt her cruel- ly. She remembered how she had wanted to dance that moonlit night so long ago, but had been put to bed by her heartless governess. She remem- bered she had suffered till sne could bear it no longer, and had risen to dress in the dark and steal out, leaving her governess a-snore. She had enWied David his liberty and had stolen the car that David brought round so that he might take Judge Freeman's daughter Lois for a moon- Ught spin—and spoon. Gloria had not prevented David from marrsing Lois, and she had run herself into 1 serie: of adventures that had promised every- thing wonderful only to stop short in black disaster. Her poor, brave, pa- tient lover would dance no more, smile at her no more. i.ove was gone from her life already and she Was only twenty. Frank Mulry did not dance that nigbt, elther. He sat at his window, listening to the music and wondering how long this game of hide and seek since how roan Dai So Def winter of the} DAILY TRIBUNE would last. He was tempted to go out and surrender to this young girl who was stalking him with such relentless stealth, But he thought of the money her fa- ther had given to Freneau and he was | afraid he would have to give it up. | He thought of his share in Freneau's trickery and the ugly look it would have in court. He beat his fat head for some clever lie that would explain | ything gracefully, but no inspira- ume and he went to bed like a ; Spanked und supperless child. | The next morning Mulry looked out | Inte upon the flood of sunlight gilding the liquid emerald sea. The breakers called to him. He could not resist the summons. He stole down a corridor and along an unfrequented walk to a bathhouse. He unpeeled his clothes 1d § zed into a bathing suit and » into the ocean. Friends of his lolling on the beach said that the | water rose when he went in and fell {when he came out. But Mulry was happy. eve: | ti | so She | He wallowed and dived like a | porpoise till he was blissfully weary, | th for an Oriental snooze. He heard a voice that sounded fa- miliar. He sat up. along the beach directly toward |him. In her sea clothes she was an ipproval of all except Mulry's. He did not make the yniste of the | ostrich. He buried his entire self in the sand and tried to hold his bri till Gloria got past. Luck was against him and. she casually stepped on him s she crossed his equator. When had gone, he exhumed himself hastily and made for the water to clear off the sand that londed him. t his toe in the first froth ed him. He could tell by start that she recognized him. He ran Into the waves, she followed, He dived through the first breaker and a second and a third. When he looked | back she was not to be seen. He laughed and began to float—which was the easiest thing he did. Suddenly he saw a red turban come through the ng eyes he she Dozens of other afro-;| wall of a big billow. Under it appeared Ought to Go to Palm Beach. Gloria's face. Mulry struck out to sea. Gloria came crawling after. He was Gloria was com- | ath | n he stretched himself on the sand | astonished to see how well she swam. | But he swam well, too. He wondered if he would have to cross the Atlantic and he regretted the necessity of landing in Europe with his } bathing suit and nothing else. He was still at some distance from Europe when he suddenly felt a twinge of | pain in his ankle—then in his knee— in both knees. He was doubling up with cramp! He knew_real fear now. He looked back to shore and the far- off, misty crowd. He shouted for help. Nobody heard him except Gloria, and he placed no reliance in her, She called to him, but he was past answering. Glorin had been raised an athlete and her brother David had taught her how to rescue drowning people. But her first practical demon- stration alarmed her. She had not | counted on sc huge a barge to take in tow. She set up a cry to shore. No one heard her. No,one missed her except one man. Doctor Royce was looking for her. That was not strange. He } Was almost always looking for her or at her. Pierpont did not know where she was. David and Lois had no idea of her whereabouts. She was not among the crowds on the beach. Royce stared out into the farther waters. Se saw her turban—or least he was afraid that it was hers, He saw her put up her hand, though he could not hear her cr; He howled to the life-saver in the boat and pointed to where Gloria swam with one hand, the other clutching at Mulry’s collar. The lfe-saver bent to the oars; the shallop slipped across the waves and Royce plunged in and swam with all his. might, diving through the white caps, cresting the big rollers, The life-saver checked his boat alongside Mulry, took him from Gloria, hauled him over the stern seat, and left him face down, heels in alr, while he offered his hand to Gloria, Gloria shook her head. She felt better for having saved a life. She underestimated the distance to shore. She ordered the life-saver to make haste with Mulry. “Take good care of him,” she shout- ed. “He belongs to me.” at| | suitor of five years ago. The Mfe-saver thought she meant that he was her husband. He thought it a pity that.so pretty a girl should} sut he did as | have so much husband. he was told and hurried Mulry ashore. Gloria felt lonely and afraid when the boat was gone. She wondered if she could make the land. She did not really care, her life was too sdd. She was beginning to droop and fail when Royce appeared at her side and set her hands on his strong shoulders, She liked him better than she thought she did. He swam magnificently. He saved her and she was glad to be saved. When at last she staggered ashore and her father embraced her, wet as she was, she looked about for Mulry. He was gone. The life-savor had re- vived him and he had tottered away. Gloria did not know whom he was visiting. He was not in the hotel reg- isters. She did not know that he had gone to his friend’s cottage slammed his clothes in his trunk and suitcase, and returned North. . . . . * . . One of the picturesque features of Palm Beach life is the presence now and then of Seminole Indians, who come up from the everglades to sell baskets and other samples of their craft, rattlesnake skins, and trinkets of various sorts. Among those who stood offering bargains of the sort were the young chief who wanted to marry Gloria and the old squaw whose horse Gloria had tried to steal, They recog- nized her when they saw her wander- ing slowly along looking for Mulry. Gloria paused and stared at them. She did not recegnize them at first and stopped to price a souvenir of her’cap- tivity. But she noted the wild glare in the eye of the romantic peddler and suddenly remembered her swarthy Her old fear came back to her for the moment. She started to escape. The chief clutched her hand and compelled her to pause. She was hardly reassured by his soft words. “Don't be ‘fraid. squaw.” She could think of nothing to say. He did the talking. “Many years since squaw run off, You got husband yet?” Gloria shook her head and sighed. Nice squaw, nice The chief sighed, too—with rellef. He | spoke grandiosely. You marry me now?” Gloria was almost as much embar- rassed by this second proposal in the Poinciana gardens as she had been by the first in the evergladés. She could not {magine what to say. The chief “All right. Spoke Soothin§ly and Put Out His Hand. crowded closer to her. Suddenly his face hardened as he looked past her. Tle clenched his fists and reached for a knife. Gloria followed his eyes and saw Doctor Royce in the distance, She wondered why the chief should hate him, ‘The chief explained with a dog's snarl. “That man nearly kill me once. He take you from ihe.” Gloria pointed to Royce questioning- ly. The chief nodded. Gloria protested. She would not permit the glory of her rescue to be taken from her dead love. “No, no; it wasn’t that man. It was this one,” she cried, and caught from her gown a little portrait of Freneau in a locket. She Caught Sight of Frank Mulry it and lookea™ | hard. The chief's lip curled with scorn. The chief clutched He laughed—almost. “Him? Humph!, Him white liver! Him run! That man there hand me big wallop. Ugh!" Gloria was indignant. The chief de- | seribed with vivid pantomime and gut- tural words the true history of her rescue, his own proposal of marriage, Gloria’s swooning with terror, Fre- neau's arrivat, his terrified retreat be- | fore the chief's advance. The struggle for the chief’s knife, and finally the tremendous uppercut that had knocked the chief. Meanwhile, during the fight, he had caught glimpses of Fre- neuu’s hasty gathering up of Gloria and his escape with her, leaving Royce to his fate. Gloria was aghast at the story. As the chief went on with it Royce saun- tered up and paused. The chief turned on him and was about to attack him. Royce fell into an attitude of self-de- fense, but smiled and spoke soothingly and put out his hand. The chief took it. He was a good sportsman and so was Royce. Gloria looked from Royce to the pic- ture of Freneau in her locket. A ter- rible doubt of Freneau assailed her. She seized Royce by the arm and dragged him to one side, demanding: “It was you that saved me. Why didn't you tell me?” Royce looked sheepish and shrugged his shoulders. He did not know just what to say. Gloria looked at the locket with hideous new suspicion, then turned and htrried away with tears springing to her eyelids. Royce stared after her adoringly. Gloria wandered far down the beach alone, She was in a hopeless frame of mind. She dropped to the sand brood- ing over the crumbling of her hero's glory. From the sea the ghost of Fre- neau seemed to come to her and, kneel- ing by her, take her in his arms. She thrust him away, crying: “Coward! Cad! Liar!” The ghost retreated sadly into the sea. Gloria wept over the picture in her locket. Royce, coming along the beach, found her. He knelt down at her side. Gloria turned to him with the old ques- tion: “Why didn’t you tell me that it was | you who saved me, and not Dick?” Royce gazed into her sad eyes pity- | ingly. He was unable to deal the death | blow to her trust in her dead lover. He spoke gently. “It was Freneau that found you and Saved you. I arrived a little too late, and I simply held off the Indian chief while Freneau made sure of your safety.” Gloria studied him with a longing to believe in Freneau. He did not flinch. She thanked him and he rose sadly and walked away. He had led to her be- cause he loved her. But his heart was almost bursting with protest against the sacrifice. When he had gone, Gloria put out her arms to the sea, erying: “Dick, Dick, forgive my suspicions and come back to me!” From the waves Freneau seemed to come forth again and, sitting down be- side her, take her in his arms. She wept, then rose and accompanied by his ghost, moved slowly and sadly along the beach. (TO BE CONTINUED.) Dire Possibility. “Maybe it’s lucky they didn’t have moving pictures when Shakespeare wrote.” “Why?” “He'd probably have put Hamlet in- to the form of a ‘s‘nario’ and left the Poetry out,” Quite So. “What is the difference between a horse track enthusiast and a strawber- ry grower?” “I suppose the principal difference is that while one is trying to pick the winners the other is trying to win the pickers.” a Preparedness. Bill—He always carries a parachute about with him. Jill—What for? “Oh, he makes so many rash state- ments he wants to be prepared to let