Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, July 10, 1916, Page 8

ELEVENTH INSTALLMENT. Aroused from its winter sleep, David's country house was aglow with good cheer. Gloria, her father, Doctor Royce and David and Lois had“come up to play for a little, to throw off the family tragedy and the formal duties of their city life, and to forget them boisterously in the open. | ‘'or men and women resting in the shadow of a crime they 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 as they found their skates and wtaps 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 remark- able 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 wanted to find out what her people were concealing from her, and why. The Stafford family lark was soon invaded by neighbors. A tobogan- ing party from another country house appeared. There were no invi- tations or only mumbled words, for ceremony had no place among flying snowballs, and dignity could not be kept up after a bump on the ice. Gloria found herself the victim of the attentions of a large jovial man whose playfulness was a little too heavy for her liking. She was about to snub him when someone casually alluded to him as Frank Mulry. ~ Gloria staggered in the snow at " meeting thus by chance the man she ¢ had tried in vain to overtake in town. Mulry, never imagining who she was, thought that she had slipped to catch her. Mulry was always ready ~sfor flirtation. Preparedness was Mul- ry's motto. Gloria studied him a moment. This ‘was the [partner of her murdered r! He was too amiable of mien to be accusable’of such a crime. She acquitted him of wishing to do away - with Freneau. In fact, the papers said that Freneau's death had nearly ‘wrecked the firm. Mulry did not look ‘bankrupt. Gloria did not know that fer father had given a large sum of money to Frencau a few days before ‘his death and that Mulry was living on_that. .‘lgre was a shifty flippancy in Mulry’s eyes and manner that made i@ distrust him. She felt a little led distrust of her dead lover for having such a man as a ‘partner. The hateful proverb about “birds’ of a feather” ran through her mind like _a tune. In_any case, here at last was 1 lg:n she sought, and she was im- patient to question him. There were mmlny people on the crest of the So to permit of conversation there. e. \ .He u:cegud. She got aboard and she dared him to a tob@)uun They swooped like a But at the foot oboggan careened ’:r‘elm @hem deep into the drift be- it capsized. e Mulry, for all his bulk was agile he was soon helping Gloria to aok you a million times, Mr. she ufi. "h'Ynn saved me g e snow.” e me? and congratulated him- on making such success with this creature. He had not reco; f her in h orn her at the opera. But ghe ‘was to him now by her close-fitting cap, her rough sport and, most of all, by her coquet- ; smiles. Suddenly he had to leap for his life to escape another scooting . On it were David and Lois and a young man from the same { 'mp;ny of which Mulry was a ;m‘ymmelf, Gloria?” David sang you get hurt, Miss Stafford?” other g man cried. m her head and called them, not noticin t Mulry's were popf ni and his jaw droop- E ieced the name together. ¢ Stafford!” He had come up .fim to escape her and he had just coasted down the hill with her, and lnelv{ his name{ IHe ;er‘ulmsfiered or Royce's warning of the danger meeting Gloria face to face, . A pretended to be suddenly ill. Gloria' Freneau's possession an pegs Hosk 's pardon lzld ';gd go home. He was too big - Gloria to hold and she could not after him without attracting at- it She stood bewildered while got away, | S ter she telephoned to his host asked to speak to him. She ed that he had just taken a motor to the train, Gloria forgot her suspicions of Lois “her newer suspicions of this man ulry. He was evidently running ‘away from her. Therefore she must ue him. His flight was evidence mysterious guilt. cut short her visit to the ry and announced her intention back to town at once, Her and brother were used to her Gloria’s on the icy snow; he put out his hand | i HER PURPOSE. SHE CAUGHT SIGHT OF MUTRY’S BROAD BACK AND FORGOT THE BEE: OMAHA, MONDAY, JULY 10, 1916. the young Seminole chief who would have forced her to be his squaw, if her brave Freneau had not rescued her from him. And now her lover, who had escaped the dangers of the jungle, had been slain on Riverside drive; her romance had ended in van- ity and despair, most the same. A litl‘e more gorgeous, perhaps, but all the gloomier for that. She had {come from the white winter of the north into the sudden July of Florida and her heart ached anew remember- ing how love had bloomed in her life under the tropical sun of Freneau's eyes. It was like going over an old album of souvenirs to revisit the scenes of that faroff yesterday, The same throngs seemed to be dancing the same dances, bounding through tea under the palms in the royal gar- dens of the Poinciana, She had almost forgotten her pur- pose in coming here when she caught sight of Frank Mulry’s broad back. He was stepping briskly. She did not know that he %\Id caught sight of her first and made off in disgust and amazement at her translation to his new retreat. She dared not run after him and she could not keep pace wtih him, She lost him in-the maze of the bazaars. Later she saw him stepping into one of the rolling |chairs propelled by darkies on wheels—the familiar “afromobiles” of Palm Beach, 4 Poor Mulry was winded by his speed and he wanted to get to his host's cottage. But he caught a limpse of Gloria also chartering an fromobile.” To his horror her “af- romobile” made after his, He dared not put back to his hotel, He ordered his driver to turn down a bowered path and to give him all the steam the blacks could afford, The motorman was vigorous, but the passenger was heavy. Gloria was light, but her African was weak. It was anybody's race with, every pros- pect of a spill for one jockey or the other, since the ra!hs were filled with dawdling strollers and the bicy- cle had come back into fashion. Everywhere women in exquisite dresses were roving about on pedals. Dozens of “afromobiles” also clut- tered the race“course. Now, Gloria gained and was about to head off her man, when a euenser boy on a wheel cut in ahead and it was neces- sary for Gloria’s chauffeur to back pedal wildly or endure collision, Mulry would shoot ahead and re- joice at his triumph, only ‘o find him- self in a tangle of pedestrians. His one-darky power Tmachine began to feel the eftects of his bulky cargo. Mulry applied gasoline in the form of a dollar bill brandished ‘in front of popping eyeballs and that gave him the advantage for a time. But even money cannot furnish everlasting power, aad the heavy breathing back of him told Mulry that his engine was about to die. . He looked back and saw that Glor- ia's car had taken a wrong,turn and shot down another avenué. He gave three silont cheers for himself. Thus ended one of the most blood- curdling rolling chariot races since Ben-Hur's day. Mulry paid his ex- hausted man well and took the near- est way to the cottage where he was guest. He did not leave it that night, and it was well, for Gloria hunted for him everywhere, She would not dance, though man; asked her. The music hurt her cruel- out of pity! for her, he next morm}l:lg Gloriagmade an- ‘other journey to Mulry's office. She ent early to make sure of catching im within business hours. The sten- grapher told her that Mr. Mulry had ¢ to Palm beach the night before a rich client who had invited to be his gue: was furious at this new es- he pondered it all the way When she saw her father she him that he was not looking at well; he needed some golf and surf . He ought to go to Palm He accepted the suggestion . He was more than willing ertake the goli“and he was get Gloria out of the region He was so worried and did not oppose them now- h ly. She remembered how she had wanted 'to dance that moonlit night 80 long ago, but had been put to bed by her heartless governess. She re- membered how she had suffered till she could bear it no longer, and she had risen to dress in the dark and steal out, leaving her governess a-snore, She had envied David his liberty and had stolen the car that David brought around so that he might take udge Freeman's daughter Lois for a moonlight spin—and spoon. Gloria had not prevented David from mar- rying Lois, and she had run herself into a series of adventures that had promised everything wonderful only to nog short in black disaster. Her ?oor, rave, patient lover was gone rom her life already and she was on;y 20. Frank Mulry did not dance that night, cither. He sat at his window, listening to the music,and wondering how long this game of hide and seek would last. He was tempted to go out and surrender to this young girl who wnla,l‘alkmx him with such relentless stealth. But he thought of the money her father had given to Freneau and he was afraid he would have to give it up. He thought of his share in Frencau's trickery and the ugly look it would have in court. He beat his fat head She found the pleasure paradise al-| the same wayes, still sipping their | for some clever lie that would explain everything gracefully, but no inspira- tion came and he went to bed like a spanked and supperless child. The next morning Mulry looked out late 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 bath house. He unpeeled his clothes and squeezed into a bathing suit and | s0 made into the ocean. Friends o his lolling on the beach said that tle water rose when he went in and fell when he came out. But Mulry was happy. He wallowed and dived like a pornoise till he was blissfully weary, then he stretched himself on the sand for an Oriental snooze. He heard a voice that sounded familiar, He sat up. Gloria was com- ing along the beach directly toward him. In her sea clothes she was the approval of all eyes except Mulry's. He did not make the mistake of the ostrich, He buried his entire self in the sand and tried to hold his breath till Gloria got past. Luck was against him and she casually stepped on him as she crossed his equator. When she had gone, he exhumed himself hastily and made for the water to clear off the sand that loaded froth, Gloria sighted him, He could tell by her start that she recognized him. He ran into the waves, she fol- lowed. 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 wall of a big billow. Under it appeared Gloria’s face. Mulry struck out to sea. Gloria came crawl- ing after, He was astogished 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 re- liance in her. She called to him, but he was past answering. Gloria had béen raised as 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 so 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. Dr. Royce was looking for her. That was not strange. He was almost always looking for her or at her, Pierpout 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. He saw her turban—or at least he was afraid that it was hers. He saw her put up her hand, though he could not hear her cry. o He howled to the life-saver in the boat and pointed to where Gloria swam with one hand, the other clutch- ing at Mulry’s collar. The life-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 ¢aps, cresting the big rollers, The life-saver checked his boat along-side Mulry, took him | from Gloria, hauled him over the stern seat, and left him face down, heels in air, while he offered his hand to Gloria. Gloria shook her head. She felt better for having saved a life. She did not really care, her life was too sad. She ordered the life-saver to make haste with Mulry, “Take good care of him,” she shouted. “He belongs to me.” The life saver thought she meant that he was her husband. He thought it a pity that so pretty a girl should have so much husband. But he did as he was told and hurried Mulry ashore, Gloria felt lonely and afraid when the boat was goue. She wondered if she could make to land. She did not really care, her life was too sad. She was beginning to droop and fail when Roice appeared at her side and set her hands on his strong shoul- ders, She liked him better than she thought she did. He swam magnifi- cently. 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 saver had re- vived him and he had tottered away. | Gloria did not know whom he was | visiting. He was not in the hotel reg- him. . Just as he set his toe in the first ¥ 4 “THANK YOU A MILLION TIMES, By Mr. and Mrs. Rupert Hughes 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 bargfains of the sort were the young chief who wanted to marry Gloria and the old squaw, whose horse Gloria had tried to steal. They recognized her when they saw her wandering slowly along, scanning the crowds for Mulry. Gloria paused and stared at them. She did not recognize them at first and stopped to price a souvenir of her captivity. But she noted the wild glare in the eye of the romantic ped- dler and suddenly remembered her swarthy suitor of five years ago. Her old fear came back to her for the moment. She started to escape. The chief clutched her hand and com- pelled her to pause. She was hardly reassured by his soft words. +“Don’t be afraid. Nice squaw, nice 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. The chief.sighed, tdo—with relief. He spoke grandiously. '“All right. 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 everglades. She could not imagine what to say. The chief crowded closer to her. Sudden- ly his face hardened as he looked past her. He 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 killed me once. He take you from me.” Gloria pointed to Royce question- ingly. The chief nodded. Gloria pro- tested. She could 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. The chief ¢lutched at it and looked hard, The chief's lip curled ‘with scorn. He laughed—almost. “His? Humph! Him white liver! Him run! That man there hand me big wallop. Ugh!” Gloria was indignant. The chief described with vivid pantomine and guttural words the true history of her rescue, hi§ own propesal of marriage, Gloria’s swooning with terror. Fre- neau's arrival, 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, fight, he Had and his escape with her, Royce to his fate. loria was aghast at the story. As it sauntered up and Ipaused. The chief the chief went on with RN AR R eneane W for it. MR. MUTRY.” — during caught glimpses Frenau's hasty gathering up of Gloria 18th and Cass Street 29th and Harney Street STANDARD OIL COMPANY - Copyright, 1916, by turned on him and was about to at- tack him. Royce fell into an attitude of self-defense, but smiled and spoke | soothingly and put out his hand. The | chief took it. He was a good sports- | mdn and so was Royce. Gloria looked from Royce to the picture of Freneau in her locket. A terrible 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 shrug- ged his shoulders. He did not know just what to say. Gloria looked at the locket with hideous new suspicion, then turned and hurried away with tears springing to her eyelids. Royte stared after her adoringly. Gloria wandered far down the beach {alone. She was in a hopeless frame | of mind. She dropped to the sand brooding over the crumbling of her hero’s glory. From the sea the ghost of Freneau seemed to come to her| and, kneeling 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, The Fugitive Witness NWovelised from the Motion Pioture Drams of the Same Name by George Kleine. FPEATURING TRE NOTED STAR, MISS BILLIE BURKE. Adelaide M. Hughes. found her! He knelt down at her side. Gloria turned to him with the old question: “Why didn’t you tell me that it was you who gaved me, and not Dick? oyce gazed into her sad eyes pity- ingly. He was unable to deat the death blow to her trust in her dead lover. He spoke gently. “It was Freneau that found you and saved you. 1 arrived a little too late, and 1 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 lied to her because he loved her. But his heart was almost bursting with pro- test against the sacrifice, When he had gone, Gloria put out her arms to the sea. crying: “Dick, Dick, forgive my suspicions and come back to me!” From the waves Freneau seemed to come forth again and, sitting down beside her, take her in his arms. She wept, then rose and accompanied by his ghost, moved slowly and sadly along the beach. (To Be Co;linued.) ETHICAL LECTURES Rev. L. Groh Says There Is Not Enough Preaching of Ohrist as the Savior. EXAMPLE OF, MARTYRS “There is too little preaching today of Christ as the Savior of mankind, the Redeemer of the world,” said Rev. L. Groh at St. Mary's English Lu- theran church yesterday morning. “Sermons are too often mere ethical lectures, mere moral dissertations, mere harping on ‘Christian duty, mere abstract holding up of Christ as the ‘perfect example.’ i “Christ, of course, was the perfect example, and Christian duty is of great importance, But these things are sec- ondary to the great foundational fact of all Christian religion, namely, the death of Christ for our sins. ' “Without " this, mere moral living and mere good deeds are nothing. 1 believe that the preaching of the won- derful fact that Christ died to save us should be a part of every sermon preached.” \ Rev. Mr. Groh's text was “He who seeks to save his life shall lose it and he who loses his life for My sake shall save it Saved Them in Greater Glory. He pointed out the examples of the Christian saints and martyrs, many of whom lost their lives for Christ’s sake and saved them in much greater glory. “Too many people today put other ! things before Christianity,” he said. | “This is true of many even who are ostensibly active Christians. One | man said he hadn't heard a sermon i for twenty,years. He was always in| his place at church, but his mind was | busy with his business plans while the sermon was being preached. -He| was present in body only, not in spirit. | “The ‘peace that passeth under- standing’ comes from faith in Christ's redemption. Then ‘those that trust in the Lord shall be like Mount Zion, which cannot be removed,’ and ‘as the mountains are round about Jerusalem, so the Lord is round about His peo- ple. pl “To those who believe in him, God gives what is good for them. This is | not always what they ask, for that the of leaving Royce SERMONS 00 OFTEN may not be best. Frequently it is just the opposite of what they want, but ‘eventually they see that this is just what was best for them.” Woman Shoots Mad Bull. Mike Zimney, a farmer living east of Three River Falls, Minn., was saved from belng trampled to death by an énraged bull by the courage and prompt aetion of his wife. The animal took offense at the flapping of Mr. Zimney's ralncoat and attacked him, throwing him to the ground and breaking several ribs and his collarbone. Mrs. Zimney, seeing the plight of her hus- band. quickly secured a shotgun and some shells. While she had never attempted to use firearms of any kind, she managed to load the gun and shoot the animal, stunning him sufficlently to enable her to drag her unconscious husband out of danger. Mr. Zimney was brought to the hospital here for treatment.—Minneapolls Jourpal. Teacher Kills Rattlers. Miss Joe Sherman, teacher at the Fry school, a few miles east of Butler, Mo., u few days ago dispatched a colony of ratfle- snakes in a neat and expeditious manner and did not show a trace of “nerves’ after the act. g The snakes were discovered by the chil- dren of the school and Miss Sherman was notified. Going to the spot where the rep tiles 'were, she procured a stout club and began the slaughter. After she had killed them she calmly removed-the fangs from thelr heads and the rattles and buttons from their talls and when the time came to call the children “to books" she resumed her duties as though dispatching deadly rattle- snakes was a part of her dally work. Miss Sherman's home is in Rich HilL—St. Louls Republic. residents of Nebraska registered at Hotel Astor during the past yeat. 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