Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, August 14, 1916, Page 8

SIXTEENTH INSTALLMENT, People who raise children are sure of a life of surprises. They would have more than they get if they could see everything that goes on. Pierpont Stafford had been kept _pretty well surprised of late by his daughter'’s actions. In his haste he had said that she was probably “on that canal barge in the river.” He did not expect to be taken seriously by the fates. But there his daughter was, at least on another barge, miles farther up the stream, but drifting downward, She was in command of the ship, at the tiller trying to steer the bulky hulk. y; ‘When Gloria saw’ the captain of the tug had noticed the slight detail of the parted hawser and the lost convoy she was vexed. When she| saw the tugboat turning around to recapture the barge she felt that it would be hard to explain about the | prisoners she had fastened down in the cabin. She supposed it was mu- tiny or something for a passenger to tie up captain, crew and cook, ~ and change the course of the ship. | She believed that people who did ; that were usually hung from the yardstick or something. She hoped that the old barge did not have such a thing on board. The nearer the tug came the louder the pilot and the crew yelled at her and the less Glorta wanted to ‘meet them. She had never met any tugmen and she felt no ambition to t into their social set, It was grow- ing so dark by now that they could not see who was at the tiller, and they kept calling her: “Trask” or “Oh, Je:!" At length Gloria decided that she was not needed any longer. She had noted the little boat bobbing along after the barge and she felt that she might as well'capture that. [ It was more nearly her size. She ~ would be safer alone on a skiff than on the barge when the tugmen re- leased that Zend of a Trask. He had &nned to kill her before she tied s to know what errand his guest was on, but she did not exchange infor- mation for hospitality. She grew so impatient for faster progress that when the farmer came to his own lane and turned into it she was glad to get down and walk. Gloria trudged till she was worn out. All the motors she saw seenfed to be going the wrong way. When finally she heard one coming behind her she was so delighted that ~ she turned and held out her hands. She warted to embrace the driver for be- ing so kind as to be going her way. inybody looks well coming to a rescue, but the young man driving the southbound automobile was too good looking for his own comfort or anyohe else’s. He accepted Gloria as a senger with more enthusiasm 1 e relished. He jumped to the ground, lifted his hat, ted Gloria into the front se: nd took his place beside her. He the car forward with a swagger and his comrhmenu began to puff out of him, Gloria en- dured.a number of his flatteries be- ¢ause she needed his motor, but she w angrier and angrier, and when ¢ began to call her “Cu she de- cided that his usefulness had ceased to exist. had ¢ up. He would certainly do no now that he ‘had escaped. Jed ‘had evidently picked himself up from the rocking chair trap, untied Trask, and unmu?[‘lled 'Nzlli‘ Tll_le t:\ree had ~ been pounding and howling for some time. v"’l‘lm -h!tch held for a while, but they were going at it now with something as heavy as a batterin ram. It would yield soon surely an then where would she be? ~ She ran to the edge of the barge and hauled in the painter attached to the little boat. The barge was swishing in the tide and it was try- ing to run over the skiff. But Gloria had no further avenue of escape. She hung across the edge of the barge and dropped into the skiff. Her aim was not very accurate and the river nearly got her. But she sat down uickly and steadied herself and the t. She began to ply the oars with eagerness, but little progress, At length she. noticed that she had forgotten to cast off. She ran to the bow and had to untie the ter. The wet knots were torture her delicate hands, but at last was free and_the boat fell aw the barge. The river was darl menacing, and its current was some invisible genie dragging skiff away to its lair. Still, when saw the come alongside barge and make fast, and saw ed and ’}fiell dntch“::p ‘the onway - and mee e tug- oo the. deck, she.feit that the ent would be kinder to her than men would have been, ‘What explanation. Trask and Jed | she could not i e, | etly it was not a one, for the ‘from the 'tugboat gesticulated tly and it looked as if there A4 be u big fight. Gloria hoped t they all would throw one another yerboatd. * /The tugboat crew went back to Jtheir quarters. Trask ran back to /stare at Gloria. He shook his ‘her and she rowed faster. But barge mo northward, following e puffin 4 / Gibrin reathed a sigh of relief at escape. Then she realized that mf lll““ruk had also escaj sure it She plotted carefully how to throw this new skipper overboard. The vic- | tim helped her to an idea by leanin| close to her and murmuring: “Kin of cozy, Cutie, huh?”, “Very," said Gloria, foaming at his her. Glotia laughed harshly and some- how managed to knock the hat off her wooer's head. The wind whipped it back and the driver shut off the en- ! glne and threw on . his rake. “So sorry,” said Gloria, smiling in the dar “At's all right, Cutie," said the young man. “Back in a minute,” He slid from his place and ran back along the road for his hat. Gloria had been studying his methods of run- ning the car’ and comparing it with her own:' As soon as the driver started back Gloria pressed the self- starter button and . put the car into motion, The man heard the entim sputter and he yelled, “Hey!” thinking the :uolme to blame, emergency d. She so angry at the cancellation of her success that she started to row ck after the barge. What she would ve done had she overtaken it she not stop to tkin!n The current ented the possibility of knowing. m Hudson_ streaming into the sea arried Gloria with it in spite of all her efforts at the cars. She gave up £ fength and devoted all her energies ¢ was sure that e had forgotten to stop his engine and he was afraid that the car was | runningaway. with its pretty pas- senger. He ran after it, forgetting his hat in his alarm, lest Gloria be dashed to pieces on the side of the road. The clean way the car leaped across the hill and the hand Gloria waved in farewell reassured him ‘as to her safety, but filled him with disgust and ith' fe: e rowing_ashore. The nearer shore the farther for her, because a llp‘il: on the west bank would com- fil a lengthy roundabout to fetch her er home on the east bank. ' She rowed for the New York shore crept toward it slowly, though boat turned southerly so fast that e feared to be swept on down fo the city's crowded water pavements. It vas lonely out there on the dark . Her arms ached with fatigue, ken hands were pouching with ar that she were some new of automobile thief. young impertinent had earned his punishment. The walk would do him Hpod. She would restore his car to im by hunting ug the owner of its number . when she had time. If necessry her father .could buy the car, It was a nice car. She loved its appetite for miles and fed it well. And finally it brought her back to her PRk i 1 ibtouh o $ she ran in throu the gates she almost collided with her father's car. The ;;Ilercmg searchlight blinded her until he heard her voice from behind e welcomed her to his arms and g 0 glad to have her safely there again that it was several minutes be fore he began to scold her. She asked him to hush, please; as she had no time to waste ‘and she wanted to borrow his yacht and its entire crew for awhile. - Pierpont re- fused the loan with all the severity of a bank president, but Gloria calmly sent for the sailing master and in the presence of her father gave him or- ders to be rud{. as soon as she had had her long-delayed dinner. Doctor Royce and Judge Freeman . |were at the house. They sat with Gloria while she told them of her adventures as she ate a hastily reas- sembled fmur. hei :d sw ] tor i : “l am surprised, Stephen, at ~we'll' jog | your leaving me ugone by myself to . . |solve my new problems. ~ Of course, MM‘ you didn't know where I was going, ed on a rocky point. She far- it ‘some unknown fate. Gloria felt bet- 1 m-f], irm earth and she grew angry ed to herself: “I'll get he won't get away!” y put If oaly she had jt was loafing at anchor in ] ght‘! was her small : 1 inghey and it slipped %d cmydm the river stared at the barge, now a on the vague horizon. thought of her father’s yacht ed it had been recent r at her father’s country home, ‘she had heard of it. d till she Al ti s R omance w ‘y{.' X, ) loria’s conscience was clear. The, THE BEE; OMAKA, MONDAY, AUGUST 14, 1917 GLORIA WENT ALOFT TO WATCH THE BARGE, but you usually manage to arrive in the nick of time. You ought to have been there,” “I wish I had been there,” Royce replied. His heart ached at the sight of her beauty and at the adventurous spirit which sent her tender body intd so much danger with so few re- sources, “I won't let you quit my sight again, Gloria,” he said and stared with such idolatry that she felt a little afraid that he was loving her too well. “Then you will come along and help me to capture thé man who killed my beloved Dick?” “All right, captain,” said Royce with a plucky smile, though her al- lusion to Freneau cut him to the quick, : Judge Freeman seemed to be agi- tated by the plan Gloria outlined for the pursuit and capture of Trask. “You must not permit this, Pier- pont,” he protested, anxiously. “Your daughter has no legal right to arrest the man Trask. If she should cap- ture his she would have to turn him over to the authorities and she would have to face a public explanation,” Gloria retorted with vigor: “You had him, judge,.and you said that he slipped out of your fingers. Now you advise me not to go after him again. You let him escape once and want me to let him escape a second time. Why I do not know.. Why don’t you tell me why?” Judge Freeman looked away guilty. His eyes turned to Pierpont and his answer was.to him and not to Gloria. “You must realize, Pierpont, that such a cruise is no place for a girl of Gloria's position and breeding.” “That's trye,” said Pierpont. . “It's all off, Gloria.,” “No, jt isn't!” Gloria cried. “If ou don't help me to catch that fiend Ilv%et the police after him.” “What police?” Pierpont laughed: “The local chief? He couldn't cap- ture a snail.” “The man is out of his jurisdiction, anyway,”" said the judge. “It woul& be quite a complicated process gettin, the fellow arrested and he \vouls probably be hard to find." 4 “My way is a very simple ‘way,” said ( loria. “Instead of sending, go! That's a good motto. But the judge will neither send nor go, and once more I want to ask him why?” The judge was not used to being cross-examined and he bore it ill. He faltered: “Some day you'll know and you'll realize ‘that I acted for your peace of mind.” “My peace of mind depends on cap- turing that man!” Gloria replied curtly, “and anybody that wants to can come along now.” Royce saluted and waited for orders. Pierpont decided to go. udge Freeman refused and. repeated his warnings, but Gloria would not even tell him good-by. She, her father and Royce went down to the yacht «landing and . were carried aboard.in a little boat, the oars flash- ing in the moonlight and, the sailors coming handsomely alongside. It was splendid to feel the deck to go.to her berth, but she refused| " to stir, “You'd better sell this old tub and buy a motor boat,” she said. Later Gloria was half awakened by She was too cold to say where she was and too drowsy She.saw a shadowy figure a little chill. to move, tiptoeing up. She knew that steamer rug was gently laid over her. Half a-dream, she murmured, “Thank you, Stephen.” She did not know whether he heard or not. When she awoke the yacht was re- It was hastening up the river at a splendid The sun was just crossing the deeming its lost reputation. gait. eastern wall of hills. Gloria went to her stateroom to bathe and dress for a new and busy day. Breakfast was served on deck, and the Palisades slid back with en- couraging rapidity. Before Gloria to stimulate the pursuit. ( *he engineer to go as—fast as pos- sible, and then still faster. She tried to hurry the pilot, too, but he ex- plained that he could not increase the speed by turning his wheel. | Gloria asked him numberless ques- tions.and made him teach her how to steer the yacht. At first he helped, but soon ghe could throw the wheel over to the queen’s taste. Gradually the barge grew larger and larger and its ugliness more dis- tinct. The men on the tug paid no heed to the yacht following closely. But Gloria saw a gaunt figure on the | barge watching anxiously. Soon he was distinguishable as Trask. Gloria Ileft the pilot house and went ‘for-| ward to make sure. She recognized him and he .recognized her. She called to him ' to" surrender, He laughed. Then she saw that he had a rifle in his hand. Trask had been mystified beyond hendurance by the whole transaction. He had left Freneau's body in the moonlit snows in front of the soldiers’ and sailors’ monument on Riverside drive. He had watched the papers for days, expecting to read in each one an account of the finding of the body. | He had been_ driven irantic with anxiety by the silence of the journals, He had begun almost. ta wonder if he had really killed his man or only dreamed it, when suddenly the head- lines had flared out with the state- ment that Fremeau’s body had been found in the lower bay, miles below By M: and Mrs. Rupert Hughes ‘ A Mo Novelized frow the Motion FEA' NOTE G THE D Copyright, 1918, by avowed, in fact, that she had seen him do the deed. Then she escaped, but after that | nothing occurred to hamper Trask's northward voyage in his canal boat His night was sleepless, however, He started up dozens of times, seeing Gloria's little white finger pointing at him, hearing her cry out again: “You killed him! I saw you!” The daybreak found him stretched out at the stern of the canal boat, looking south for some possible avenger. He saw the yacht swooping up the stream long before Gloria made him out. He seemed to feel that the uncanny speed of the boat meant business. So he hunted out his old rifle and kept his eyes on the yacht dern Pirate Gomlhl. Drama of the Same Wame By BILLIE BURKE. Hughes. as it joined with relentless persist- ence. Finally he made out Gloria on | the prow, pointing at him. On the | deck were several men, all staring at him. | Now Trask felt assured Gloria was . |a witch. She had appeared in his cabin, then vanished, only to reappear - with a posse of yachtsmen. He felt that he had been a fool to let her dupe him when he was alone. Now she had a little army and navy of her own. But if he got rid of her he . would be rid of the only witness against him. So he reasoned with a madman’s logic. He leveled his rifle at Gloria. He took careful aim. He fired! (To Be Continued.) Bay Asp Do You Use I A y e‘Fr'T?bIeté ; irin Y i N the spot on Riverview drive where he had left it empty of soul. He had cudgeled his brain trying to conceive who could have disposed of the evidence of his crime and with what motive. The papers said that Freneau had committed suicide, and nobody disputed it. Trask had begun to grow used to the hope that the crime was to go un- discovered, to remain another of the many instances: that disprove the old fallacy, "“murder will out.” It seemed If so, buy the one genuine. 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It'll get away for keeps this time.” ! “Never despair,” said Royce, stu- pldls. s “Don’t speak to me,” said Gloria. She flounced away to the stern deck to be by herself, Then the soft breeze blew away her anger and her furies, In spite of herself she fell asleep. 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