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Fifteenth Installment. rpont Stafford cherished his ma- _country place principally be- ‘cause it furnished him an ample soli- He could wander about it for and meet never a soul. If he ted company, there was room for heconit) “It's a pity Gloria isn't here to see the palace and in the formally 'gt;lt ded lrounl:is. And ! lown on the tremendous peace| ¢ ot ' the Hudson river, admiring its ”’.‘.’shi.;";';"f;x::' :}:'e':)':!“h’(':lsl”l'n trength as one l?m’“'. maa do;s be, that's sure,” Pierpont growled, as m"- and complimenting it on the |\ ." giared at his section of the Hud- ney with which it did such a|¢on where, fighting against the cur- big business with so little fuss. | rent, a little tug was visible, towing | “He asked few persons to visit him.|an 6id canal barge loaded to the wa- d those few only when the mood|ter fine, Then he added: “She's moved him. In his everyday life as| probably on that barge now, adopting man of big affairs he met so many | the bargeman's family,” peaple and was so pointed out when| He could imagine néthing more ex- walked the streets that he acquired | travagantly impossible to say than unclasp that child’s arms, In fact, he lifted Stas to his arm and held him there while he told the butler he could leave without notice if he did not like the guests of the house. Also Pierpont told Royte that he must take partic- ular care of Casimir's wife, Royce laughed at the old man's complete col- | lapse and said: d of shyness in his hours of that. And yet, the truth kept pace | isure. ¢ with his extravagance. For Gloria " He was touched in a tender spot| was indeed even then on board just| such a barge being towed upstream by just such a tufl. Only Gloria was not adopting the bargeman’s family, She was being adopted by it. She was a hen he heard that his scapegrace ughter Gloria had invited three guests to make his sacred retreat their ‘more or less permanent home. She|wa = had not consulted him and the guests | prisoner, and her life was in pawn. the last people in the Gloria's curiosity as to one problem ~would have invited. It ice | was solved. She had found out that ‘enough for Gloria to take pity on a her vision of Frenau's murder was not or waiter and his forlorn child, 1t|2 delirium. She had scen the assassin ' sweet of her to adopt the child. and heard him accused by his own | ont had even forgiven her by daughter. One trouble with satisfy- w for compelling him to hunt em-| INK, curiosity is that every curiosity ent for the waiter. But then | satisfied opens up new curiositics. t followed? Gloria invited * the| Gloria now was frantic to know why y's almost hopelessly invalid moth- Gideon Trask killed Frenau and how !d the boy and the father to make Trask's daughter was involved in the s i yt home in Pierpont’s | STime. Next, she was curious to know EEmaciyey .‘ That was far more how she was to escape with her 5 :::c:::c kn&gfledgg{._ oni: ll‘he l:‘ndGill, i ¢ . en Trask hear oria’s voice is has ‘.‘;' "topiilop. t'"? 4 lemd over his shoulder accusing him of the to stop it, hergon H’ "l‘. crime he was denying, he whirled as . Royce, who ha 'h“ }:0”(' if an angel had’ spoken with the d;:;:n!‘:;’;l’fee‘ e three 10] yoice of conscience. An angel would 0 p have been hardly more surprising than Royce smiled. Pierpont grew more | the ook of Gloria on the pmiwf.y of ““QOh, I'm not afraid of her just be- the barge. ! she is only a child, She's got Trask had no idea of Gloria's iden- me and get rid of them.” tity. !-Le couldhnolt’ iémzme who she ! was, whence she had come, or why her so, eir,” said Royce, | he'accused him. He stood trans- at the old man’s helpless blus- Il1ixed _n.hmom'ent, ugl" moved toward 4 & er with menace. Gloria retreated u ;l‘fl tell her!” Pierpont sWag-|the steps, but he leaped at her an?l ‘Where is she?" ol dru{ed her down and siezed her by one k;uw.mfiloyts l:l'lofl'f“ the throat, as he had seized Frenau, e llle l:", s ’;ue?:'ew Dliys She tried to scream, but she could try Bt motored out with | 1ot make @ found. Nell attempted ‘l;r R en that He would to restrain her father, but he turned i t‘?l‘(:l o4 the unwels| 7 her with terror and wrath: “If :‘a‘ toi emnly G eiave fo she gets away, l\uo to the chair” e l“"m the was not yet the abso- He might have throttled her then boss of the family. and there, but there was a jolt, the 3“?5!' victory -will be worth going barge shook as the tow line dragged €§,n s fo see,” said Royce. it away, and down the hatchway : 1 mci\e d the country plice; came the voice of Trask's helper, only 16 find that Gloria had not been |J¢d: seen nor heard of, Her three guests ere there, however, installed for a fong stay. The butler was so horri- at ¥|lvin a waiter's family to wait on that ge offered his notice. Pietpont decided to evict the wait- s family and save the butler, He would do it at once, before Gloria got home. He stalked forth like a con- fable Yt 4 i anahd sigh of him ¢ boy, cal Sight o d flung his. n‘m ‘his t0 im of the Trask iurled Gloria against the way and warned her that if she made a sound it would be her last. He would wring her neck and throw her into the river, Gloria cowered in utted dread of him and remembered the fate of her poor lover, whose body the same stream had received and kept. for days. When Trask stamped up the cabin stairs and banged the hatchway down Gloria studied the girl. She had been utiful, and still was pretty, but too sad. Just now she was too ::y. Nell had been fighting aga “ r father till this unknown woman appeared from nowhere. Now Nell was all for her father against the wotld, Gloria spoke to her, 1uenioned her Bon ] i )f:‘l‘ of :mt ?relnn.u. Nellb‘r_! d not an‘er tenderness. ost only in grumbling monosylla- ,‘fl‘m‘:‘, bat hia chariy |bles, 'Gloria tred to bribe Nell 1o et ‘stead w( escape, Gloria offered larger an qon?il heart. la¥ger sums till Nell would Bive besa had nimt"«ldldfiio— Since that period the department has been in the hands of civilians seven years out of eleven. The navy department has been ad- ministered by a naval officer only three years out of the last twenty. The rest of the time it w hands of lawyers or journa Just prior to the Tangier incident that threatened war, the navy w ministered by a journal war department by a stock broker, English Fruit Rotting for Lack of Labor to Pick It (Correspondence of The Assoclated Press.) London, July 29—Thousands of tons of fruit are spoiling on English farms for want of labor to pick it, Complaint is made that hundreds of nt and well-educated women gone to these farms to pick the fruit, only to return, because of tl miserable conditions under whic they were asked to live and the pet- tiness with which they were treated. German-Spanish Wireless of The Assoclated Press.) July 29.—Although French "have done a good deal to military preparation, | int: still complaint that their have not been utilized to ‘advantage, and the Academy now poses a question as ‘men of technical training have a greater share in idable work of reorganizing Communications OQg'ned (Correspondence of The Assoclated ‘The Hague, Netherlands, ‘]uly 28. It is announced that wireless tel hic communication has been e tablished between Germany an Spain. The Spanish station carrying on the service is that of Aranjuez- radio. A similar communication had already been installed between Aus- tria-Hungary and Spai Feeding Tulip-Bulbs to Cattle in Holland Now (Correspondence of The Assdclated Press. Ll-lnr em, Netherlands, July 29, xl:r the war, A Chatelier of the institute tha. the academy go to once to formulate the work- best calculated to ac- e industria’ and economic ‘the country, ‘without for politicians 20 decide the services of technical and c men will be accepted. of the institute expected » government would have re- to their technical knowled ization of some of the ly crocuses and certain sorts of are being sold for cattle food the bulb-growing districts of Hol- b- | land, in consequence of the recently announced British prohibition of im- port, * : London Hotels Cutting Down the Tipping Evil 0o of The Associated Press.) 29—The ing favor in London movement t [ hotels. In one w nounced that they had decid abolish the tip nuisance by ads small percentige to customers’ ac- Years of Suffering. | “After sufferitiy for over twenty years with indigestion and having some of the best | fake charities, the committee recom- there was no cure for [mends re tell 1 think it only right to tell sutferers as well MM? i1 £ it e consignments of bulbs, prin- % “no-tips” | 000, to a fourth started by an un s o DA 0| To all these the public gave fre Cured of Indigestion After Tweaty |steal THE BEE: OMAHA, MONDAY, AUGUST 7, 1918. 5 SHE SNATCHED THE POKER FROM THE FIRE, AND TRASK LAUGHED AT IT. SHE HIT THE TABLE WITH IT AND SPARKS FLE dazzled if she had been convinced. At last she spoke: “Say, what do you think you are? The Dime Savings bank? And who do you think I am? I ain’t on auc- tion. 1f your father- had all the money you're makin' up he has, do you think you could buy my father with it? No!” ' * Gloria liked her better for that, but she was none the less determined to escape if ‘she could. She talked no more. But she thought harder than ever before. Nell went on getting her father's supper at the little stove, clattering the pans and jabbing the fire with the ‘poker angrily. Gloria had often steamed the Hudson on her father’s yacht., This was her first yoyage on a canal ibarge. The place was extremely un- like her father's yacht, but the savor of the frying pan made Gloria demo- cratically hungry. \When Trask came back, howevar, his cold eyes took her appetite away. But not his own. She watched him wolf his food; she felt that he was half insane, a relentless fanatic on a wild crusade. His eyes kept rolling in her direc- tion. e found her so mysterious that he was half afraid of her. He remembered the loncliness of that winter night by the Soldiers’ and Sail- ors’ monument. He remembered the a gelrlnee of Freneau alone and no other human being in view. His very hands remembered the death grasp they took on Freneau's throat. = He smiled. That was one good deed, at least, he told himself. But he could riot imagine how this girl equld have seen him. How could loria’s Romance PE——gyy he guess that she had sat at her win- | her governess had given her a prob- lem in algebra ga-b)x(a-b)-? She had stared at that riddle as she stared” at dow with" binoculars to her eyes and watched the whole tragedy. He be- gan to grow superstitious. Gloria was She wore the invisible cloak. Per- haps. she would leave as mystically as she had come. Finally he grew brave enough to shout out at her: “Who are you? What was Freneau to you?” Gloria knew that anyone who blus- ters is likely to be weak, so she an- swered coldly: “Never mind who I am. The main thing is, who are you and what was Freneau to you?” The very name Freneau seemed to madden Trask. He emitted a loud table. He moved toward Gloria, but changed his mitld or deferred his pur- pose and went up the stairs, closing the hatch and fastening it above. There was nothing reassuring in his last look at Gloria. Nell was clearing up the table when she saw that Gloria was faint with hunger and terror. She offered Gloria the remnant of the supper. Gloria was glad to get it. She ate like another pauper. She felt that she would need what strength ‘she would acquire. Her wits were d:nc- ing as she tried to think out a means of escape. She could not fight Nell and her father and the big man, too. She could not overcome them with force, and she had no weapon but her five wits, and they had never been trained to suchiproblems. She was as helpless before them as she had been when she was a little S-year-old filly at Palm Beach and a(})‘pare ly able to perform miracles. | W. this one. and smiled too, but he alone ‘and brougl snatched a legs of ‘the “Welll” So far so good. But there was still Trask to settle with, and Jed. had not tablecloths .enough for all three, and she doubted if she could Dr. Royce had happened along then could probably solely on her. She thought and thought while Nell cleared the table. She offered to help Nell and was permitted to aid in the work. When the last dish was re- moved to the wash basin Gloria and Nell took opposite ends of the coarse tablecloth. When it was folded twice the two girls began to bring the two yelp of hate and derision and left the jends together, as people do who are folding tablecloths. Nell stopped short at the proper mo- tablecloth in Nell’s fingers, she sud- denly whipped the cloth over her head, it down around her elbows and, affer a furious struggle, forced Nell back into a chair and knotted the tablecloth corners under the arms. She’ the wall and tied Nell's feet to the mad woman in a straitjacket, but the knots held. Gloria was out of breath, but‘she was proud as Punch ovér her victory. She stood up panting and exclaimed: By Mr. and Mrs. Rupert Hughes way. \ Ariother scheme occurred to her. n She had noticed Nell poking up the| lighted, she set at’ the foot of the Now Nell was | stairs 1 quieting down and it was safe tolon its side, and fell back to await fire in the little stove. | leave her, was not. Inever glows. Gloria |body working at fore the poker take. ! pered: “Hurry up.” in no hurry, Gloria was her. depths. “Pal\ Pa! did it!” under the voodoo. he regained his Nell. fire. was a hissing s>und. red hot sword. at the easy task.. He solve this problem, was not here. She was the solution depended he was not there. She gloated a trifle. self up!” Trask cenld the poker. Gloria was vigilant. pair of dish towels from chair. Nell fought like a she attended to herself and gagged him She deck overhead. The Floa Wovelised from the Motion Picture Drams of the Same Name B She -ran to the stove, lifted the! e !1id and set the poker in the red coals.| dark. As-he, left the last step he It was a grand idea and she was tre-/ ; | mendously enthusiastic. But the poker] ma trl‘:. Jed went on over with a It was in no hurry what-|crash that a % ever. They say that a watched poker | was yelling that he was being bitten some- | to death by il the hatch be-!sidled past him, ran up the stairs and had She heard Trask's footstep. could see his feet on the stairway.| Hudson river, and a great distance She stared at the poker and whm-:fmm cither shore. The poker was ! magnificent in the see how Trask understood tlhiat the witch woman had performed another oi her | punishment seemed right. feats and he was sufrehct‘}‘ut he was! ' Ghe had never Glcria standing by the stove. looked so small and so timid that\ynflfl principles. : courage. roared é;fig‘b;’r‘icz?d..s"t‘:“';dh;:l“"..a,rd | current would act as engine power. Trask was so astonished by her, impudence that he laughed. “Why, you little fluffy t tie you up and drop you in the river “Oh, you will?” said Gloria. She snatched the poker from the Trask laughed at it. == the table with it and sparks flew. She rubbed it on the wooden tof the table and smoke arose. putlet, Tl She hit There Trask shud- dered. Gloria jabbed at him with her He could feel the searing pain of it before it reached him When it arrived where he was Gloria was a trifle conceited over her success. And now, what next? She saw the rope in\his hand.. He had brought it to tie' her with. The next idea came. “You thought you wonld tie me np, did you? Well, you can just tie your- hardly helieve that anyone would be criel enough to in- flict such an insulting injury. Gloria's arguments: were pokes with If Trask had been more intelligent as the cabinet tricksters do—so that he could slip out easily. But this was beyond him._at the time, and She made him fasten around a stanchion, then knot it about one wrist, then pass it around him till he looked like a package of Gloria’s own tying. The last knots She set the poker on a plate within easy reach, and knetted, and knotted, and knot- ted. Trask gnashed his teeth with rage, but he could not. budge. 'He velled just once, then she seized a dish towel, whirled it into ‘a' roll 0 that he could not even gnash his ‘teeth, Gloria heard footsteps along Probably Jed was ting Trap G THE NOTED STAB, MISS BILLIE Copyright, 1916, by Adelaide M. Hughes. hoodwink those giants in the samc-‘con-hng down., The Poker was cold. 0 | There was no time for rcheating it. She put out the lamp that Nell had a wicker rocker, she laid_ it | develcpments, AWy Jed came down the stairs in the ut his foot in the wicker rocker as He shook the barge. a wildcat, when Gloria | attained | out on deck. She closed the hatch, as much blush as a hardened sinner | fastened it and voted herself three feels on his cheek at a little mis- | cheers. | - She looked about her now and saw She | that she was in the middle of the The view was loaming, but she | had had enough of it and the hateful Trask paused to call Jed, then he|tug was furrowing the water and began to come down the stairway.| dragging the barge farther and father stupefied to much there was of him. His face| appeared last of all and it appalled He carried a rope in his hand: Trask did not see Gloria at first. | But he caught sight of the animated | herself. bolster .in the rocking chair and it |father's home. Stas and his father frightened him. He stared back. But and mother would be waiting for her, a muffled shriek cam]e ts' north. She saw the tiller of the barge flopping idly, and it occurred to her that if she could get free from the tug she could steer the barge to shore Somewhere below was her the '‘Perhaps her own father was alarmed. me! She!.It was time for her to go home. She would take her prisoners back to her father and deliver them to whatever steered a canal ‘S‘)W'lflbarge. but she imagined that it would 1€ | be about the same as a Motor boat in He'! Fortunately, she € had been carried so far north that the She was delighted with the scheme. {'She went forward and saw ths big hawser connecting the barge with | the tug. The hawser sagged in the middle and cut the water. The tug was buckled down to its work, churn- ing up a noisy wake. She could see the backs of the crew of the tug of | where they sat smoking and solemn and bored to death. They would have had a good laugh if they had seen Gloria trying to untie the knots in that hawser with her little hands. She was laughing -to think how surprised they would be later when they discovered by chance that the barge had disappeared. When a parcel came home from a shop Gloria always. tried to untie it, then always went for the scissors. So now, when she saw she could not quite unknot the hawser, she looked for the shears. She found an ax én deck and attacked the. big rope. She hit everything but the hawser, and when she l\it that at last it was like hitting a hufe rubber band. The ax bounced out of her hands .and just escaped falling into the river. She But ment; Gloria went toward her. The A icked it up and chopped at the solution came to her in a flash. In- :2‘:,' l;,? ,;g‘l::ls}:f",ea?{eld mi':m':??‘:: awser where it was wound. Every stead of putting the two ends of the third or fourth blow .hit the cable and severed a few strands. And final+ ly the rope gave and flew. The barge quivered at its release from the tension, and the tug, suddenly un- hitched from its load, jumped forward and sent the crew sprawling. Gloria rau to the tiller to steer her prize home. She was greatly ‘disap- ointed when ,she heard the yells rom the tug and saw that the pilot already was making ready to re- capture the barge as soon as he vould take in the hawser. Also she could hmtl! hear. the howls of her cahirted anc, sonfused priconers. If the tug men came aboard ‘and re- leased them, what would become of Gloria? Glotia wdndered. (To Be Continued.) rope the FAKE CHARITIES RBAP BIG HARVEST Prominent English - Society Folks Find Names Have Been Fraudulently Used. BI¢ THEFTS REVEALED (Correspondence of The Assoclated Press.) London, July 29.—London society has been stirred by the revelation that some of its titled and most prominent members have unwittingly been lend- ing their names to fraudulent war charity organizations. The names of the frauds and of the leaders of Eng- land's aristocracy who served on com- mittees were not given out by the government committee which made the disclosures. Following close on the heels of the report the founder of the war fund was arrested, speedily convicted and entenced to six months imprison- ment at hard labor for converting its money to his own use. In passing sentence the court condemned widel known persons who had allowed their :\lmg_u to be used on “dummy commit- ees. Rumors that all was not straight in the affairs of mln{ of the “charity” organizations which have sprung up since the outbreak of the war were heard early this year and resulted in the appointment of the committee, Its report bristles with stories of fake s, astounding proof of the gul- bility of mankind and the ease where- with distingushed persons may be trapped into lending their names to what is described as “organized ri guery.” Many Fakes Found. The report, for instance, refers to one charity that published no ac- counts, to another with a merely nom- inal committee, to a third whose ba ance sheet fails to account for $250, charged bankrupt, to a fifth that was the invention of a foreign -wg;dler. y. “The favorite dodge,” says the re- port, “is really to expend the major part of the sum collected on the nomi- nal n&{ect of the charity and only 1 20,000 or 30,000 pounds.” After calling his attention to the recklessness of titled and prominent eople in lending thei state supervision you for the | registration of charity funds. a8 to your “But,” says the e contemptible blot on our socical sys- tem, and it would do a World of good if the names of these dummi patrons were published along with the frauds they have helped to foster.” Many promoters have .found the war charity a gilt-edged investment, the Daily Sketch deduces and adds: “There are certain men and women in society who think that they have ful- filled most of their obligations to charity by allowing their names to go oltll every committee which writes to them.” . BULLET DROPS FROM EAR. What the Doctors Failed "to Do Kindly Nature' Slowly. Performed. Thirteen years ago Corey Hill, 55, was shot by a Madison county citi- zen. The ball from a rifle struck Hill in the ear and penetrated, it is believed by physicians, the br,:in or its lining, The injured mah was unconscious for some time, but ral- lied and almost recovered, though the bullet never was removed from his skull. A few days ago the ball dropped out of the ear it had entered. "Hill suffered !'!3 the wound with partial 1y | loss . of ‘vision of the left eye and never recovered ability to focus the eyes, the ball evidently cutting the fibers enclosing the eye nerves. He suffered at times from slight head- aches and dizziness. Lately the ear became inflamed. mes to these without x - Daily Mail, “that ! Awentyfive eent |is not enough. First let us have the e of Chamberlain's Tablets net only title of the bogus charities or the within two [names of their ‘treasurers Titled ‘Grobien, 508 Henry 8t., {and pr ominent people who lend their everywhere, | names in this way place a vicious and Then the bullet, imbedded in the skull for more than 3 dozen {cars, worked it way to the orifice of ; dropped out.—Atlanta Constitution, Plattsmouth Dance Causes Real Troubie Plattsmouth, Neb., Aug. 6.—Police- man William Wilsdh is suffering from concussion shall has ab ullet ‘wound in the leg, | Williams Owns was shot through the abdomen and is in a critical condi- the ear and |shall you look: at ft. de -sunshine loose. and heart.”* “Here " of the brain, Jesse Mar- tion in an Omaha hospital as a re- sult of a fight between William Mar- and Francis Whalen after a dance in Coates hall last night. Turning Sunshine Loose, ‘It's & dark day,” some one said to Brother ‘Willlams “a very dark lopeless da: And then the old negro sald: But why don't you unlock | de sunshine? Aln’t you got some hid ‘round de house some'rs—in some ol' co'ner what you clean forgot? Skr ‘roun'! and' t'un It's dar—in yo' house “Hit's' es,| the dark day mourner a dollar for you old man." “Bless God!"-Brrother Willlams sald. “T knowed you'd turn loose de sunshine. wuz in yo' pocket all do time!"—, Constitution, . Aiezatisn 25,748 more . paild Want Ads first six months 1916 than in same period of 19156— nearly 1,000 more each week. 'Why men- tion results with this kind of evidence? OMAHA- LINCOLN said, Hit e —on the way to the station, stop at the druggist's for your tube of ‘Drlyon's PERFECT Dental Cream A Standard Ethical Dentifrice Send 2¢ stamp lodly"of a generous trial package of either Dr. Lyon's Perfect Dental Cream or Tooth Powder. L W. Lyon & Sons, Inc. 577 W. 27th St., N.Y. 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