The evening world. Newspaper, June 13, 1922, Page 18

Ta SECOND IN WHO'S WHO Yodge of his friend, BEN GAYNOR, to tell him o' to be somewhere near a lone cabin that he is in financial straits alth tertaining a house party of San I LOONEY HONEYCUTT, ol ing undue attention from sistance of the fellow, who is of devil's luck! GLORIA, T first, Reng was taken aback by Mrs Ben’s youtifulness Or look of youth, as he un- Jerstend presently. He knew that she was within a few years of Ben’s age, and yet certainly “showed no signs of it to his eyes, which, though keen enough, wer ‘after a male fashion, unsophisticated. he was a very pretty woman, petite, ‘alert, and decidedly winsome, He un- @erstood in a flasly why Ben should have been attracted to her; how she had held him to her own policies all these years, largely Pecnuse they were hers. She was dressed daintily; fer glossy brown hair was becom- tngly arranged about the bright, smil- ing face. She chose to be very gra- efons to her husband's life-long friend, giving bim’ a small, plump hand ii a welcoming grip, establishing Bim fm an instant, by some sleight of femininity which King did not plumb, s\® hearth-side intimate most af- fedtionately regarded. His first two ns of her, arriving almost ot she quite simultaneously, were of prettiness and cleverness, She slipped to a place on the arm et Gaynor’s chair, her pand, whose ‘well-kept’ beauty caught and held Mine's eyes for a moment, toying ‘with her husband's graying hair. "Bhe loves old Ben,” thought King. “That's right”: ‘Mrs, Ben Ghynor ‘was what {s known as a born hostess, very Ben Gaynor's eyes followed his wife pridefully when, at tpe end of fifteen Pleasant, sunny mfhutes, she left them, King had risen as she went holding himself with a hint of stiffness, as was his unconscious way ‘when infrequently in the presence of ‘women; now he turned to Ben with an odd smile. “Bhe's a wonder. Mark,” he sald heartily. From without came a gust of shouts and laughter from the Gayare guests skylacking along the lake shore. “Come,” ald Ben: “You'll have to the crowd, Mark. you to sec my little girl; #0 many .yarns about you that 's dying of curiosity.” he would have pre- 4 i trifies, awoke . “Come here, my dear,’’ said Ben, “Mark, this is thy little girl, Gloria, icnow all about this wild man. He Mark King.’ “Indeed, yes!”’ cried Gloria. She ©ame smiling down the stairway, a @uffy pink puffball floating fairywise. dier two hands were out, ingenuously, . Pretty little pinknalled hands which had done little in this world beyond ‘adorn charmingly the extremities. of wo soft round arms, For an instant King felt the genial @urrent within him frozen as he stif- fened to meet the girl he had watched ‘™ the extravagant dance down to the ‘Then, getting his first near view of her, his eyes widened. He had never geen anything just like her; with that he began, realizing dully that he was a & F #0 artlessly up to his, Hers the softest, tenderest gray eyes jhe bed ever looked into. He had the Bneasy fear that his hard rough hands ‘were rasping the fine soft skin of hers, Yet there was a warm pleasurable ‘Mhrili in the contact. Gloria was very mnuch alive and warm-boiied and Deautitul taias into the rarest of skies, growths seeming to partake of some celes- tial perfection; hardy, though they elothed themselves in an outward aveming of fragile delicacy. Physi- cally—he emphasized the word and barricaded himself behind it as ‘nough he were on the defense #guinit her!—she came nearer per- iection than he had thought a -girl could come, and nowhere did he find eek tranquilly. "Ele would have béen very = [= esc yi bar been rope gf of your me, %» little daughter, Besides he had very ~_— og little to do with the matter.’* ‘ ; ss = y- ac “Gloria l"* MARK KING, who follows the trail of the forest; comes to the ‘eéctet of the mine, is too enfeebled to make the search. SWEN BRODIE, brute outlaw of the mountains, Brodie throw a man over a cliff on-the ridge. King goes to the as- ANDY PARKER, a mountaineer, who confesses, as he dies, that he and Swen Brodie were trying to get to the mine—against the curse ‘Jothers were Archie and Teddy arid at = os thinking of?" demanded her mother. . “What do you suppose?” said Gloria Ba | “And, what ts more, there was a |moon. Remember that, mamma.” She tied the big scarlet silk handke about her throat and-turned to be kiss: | Mrs. Gaynor looked distressed, | there were actually tears trying to f | vade her troubled eyes, and her hands | were nervous, “But you will be gone all day!"’ “Oh, mamma!" Gloria began to | grow impatient. ‘‘What if I am? Mr, King is a gentleman, isn’t he? He isn't going to eat me, is he?’ Why you make such a fuss over it all? you want to spoil everything for me?’ | “You know I don't! "We've had nothing but ‘buts’ #ince I told you. I should have left you a note and slipped out.'’ She bestowed upon the worried face a pecking little kiss and tipto#d to the door. STALMENT. IN THE STORY: { plans to find a gold mine supposed on Lookout Ridge. -Gaynor admits ough his wife-and daughter are en- *rancisco's fast young set. ld hermit of Coloma, who has the He is receiv- King has seen “Wait, Gloria! What shall I tell every one? They're your guests, | after all”"— “Tell them T.asked to be excused for the day. Beyond that youyare rather good at smoothing out thin, | UN trast you,’ " | “But--l mean and—and Mr. j ton?" “Oh, tell him to go to tie devil!” jerled Gloria. .*!ft will do him tio end of good.” .And while Mrs, Gaynor stared after her she closed the door softly and went tiptoetng down-stairs Jand out into’ the, brightening dawn, where Mark King awaited her, with the horses | From behind a > window-curtain | Glorta’s mother watched the girl trip- ping away through the meadow to | the stable, set back among the trees, | King was leading the saddled horses lto meet her; Gloria gave him her | sauntleted nd in a greeting the de+ |gree of friendliness of which. was |wauged by the clever eyes at the | window; friendliness already arrived ‘at a stage of intimacy. King lifted | Gloria into her-saddle; Gloria's: litte laugh had in it a flutter of @xcite- ment as her cavalier’s strength. took \her by delighted surprise and off her |feet. ‘They rode away through the | thinning shadows. | (Copyright, 1923, by the Bell Syndicate, Ine.) siderations, ‘what in the world will (c ed To-morrow.) every one say? And think!" | a conflicting detail from the tendril of sunny brown hair touching the curve of the sweet young face to the little fect in thelr clicking high-heeled shoes.. Thus from the beginning he thought of her fn superlatives. And thus @d Gloria, like the springtime coquetting with an aloof and silent wilderness, make her bright entry into Mark King's Jife. “T have been, acting-up like a Com- anche Indian. outside," laughed Gloria. It was she who withdrew her hands, King started inwardly, wondering how long he had been holding them, how long he would have held them if she had not been so se: ly mistress of the moment, . "My hair was ail tumbling down and I had to run up-stairs to fight it back where it belongs. Isn't a@ girl's hair, a terrible affilction, Mr. King? One of these days, when pap's back is turned, I'm going to cut it off short, like a boy's."” CONQUEST. Miss Gloria had a pretty way of commanding, half beseeching and yet altogether tyrannical. King, having agreed to stay to luncheon, was in the bathroom off Golden’s room, shaving. Gloria. ‘Tad wht her father .and dragged him off into a corner. “Oh, papa, he is simply magnificent! Why a Grat- “KING LIFTED GLORIA INTO THE SADDLE.” {eked Miss Gloria, Nght of tone but} with all of the calm assurance of her —>——— GATED EDITION. ; i “ - ‘ yaa Aldn't you tell me? Why, be isn’t alyears. “I do know exactly what Iam] In the tall mirror before her Gloria AN E tH old wpdi—-cahd she made himjabout. 1 always do. And anyway,"'| regarded her boots and riding-breeches (Hom, the Boston Transcript.) fofaint for Wer Ue high Hehts of an] With a Frenchy little shrug which|critically, Then her Mttle hat and the) ‘risss—So this ts what you had at king a name| She had adopted and adapted last sea-| blue flannel shirt. Too mannish?| your club banquet? Pretty poor menu, TON dt torens iat the same | 80. ‘I am going,” Never With Gloria in them, an expres-/1 call tt. : time inthe Klondike .countay. ‘But,”’ exclaimed her mother, al-|sion in very charming curves of tri-| Gayman—Sssh! - That's the menu we Bhé danced: away, winging. to her] Feady routed, as was inevitable, and] umphant girlhood. had especlally printed to bring home to abandoded friends, who were return. | HW looking toward'the essential con-| “What in the world was Mark King oor wives ing fto the! hous It's the . Mark King, my dears!" she told them tri- umphantly, not unconscfous of the depressing result of her disclosures upon a couple of, boys ‘of the college age who adored and with fre- quent lapses 4 jorious hope to bleak despaty. ‘man who’ made history in the ike, The man who fought his way alone across fit- teen hundred miles of snow and tee and won Oh, I don't know what kind of a fight, against all kinds of odds. The very Mark King! He's papa's best friend, you know.”’ t him be your dad’s friend, then,” said the young fellow with the pampered .pempadour, his eyes show~- ing a glint of sullen jealousy. ‘That's no reason'’—— “Why, Archie!" cried Gloria. ‘You are making yourself just horrid. You don’t want to make me sorry I ever invited you here, do you?" Ard a brief half-hour ago Archie had flat- tered himself that Gloria’s dancing had been chiefly for him. OPPENHEIM, COLLINS & CO.’S | Commandments to Buyers 1. No item of apparel is worth more than the least we can afford to sell it for. ‘They were all of Gloria's “‘set’’ with " i sh Sthed sate, Oration.” "while the Price your merchandise for what it is worth, rather than for what it will bring. Do not think you can reach the public with prices that are out of the public’s. reach. Only those things are easy to sell which are priced where they are not difficult to buy. Georgia and Evelyn and Connic. It was to this ‘‘Mr. Gratton” that she turned, having made a piquant face ‘at the dejected college youth, "You will like him immensely, I know,’’'she said, while the ears of poor Archie reddened even as he was]: being led away by the not very pretty but extremely comforting Georgia. ‘He's a real man, every inch of him.” (‘Every inch a King!" she thought. quickly, unashamed of the pun.) “A big man who does big things In @ big way," she ran on, in- dicating that she, too, after that brief meeting had been lured into superla- tives. “Mr, Gratton” smiled urbanely, For his own part ha might have been called every inch, @ concrete expres- sion of suavity. He was clad in the conventional city-dweller's’ ‘outdoor rig.” Shining puttees lying bravely about the shape of his leg; brown outing breeches, creased, laced at their abbreviated ends; shirt of the sport effect; a shrewd-eyed man of thirty-five with ambitions, a chalky complexion and a very weak mouth with full red Ii “Miss Gloria,” he whispered as he managed to have her all to himself a moment, “you'll make me jealous.’* That forenoon King shook hands with Archie, Teddy, Gratton and ‘the rest, made his formal bows to Gloria's wirl friends, and felt relief when the inept banalities languished and he was free to draw apart. Gratton, with slender finger to his shadowy mus- tache, bore down upon him. King did not like this suave individual. “I have been tremendously interest~ Gratton led off ingratiatingly, “in the things I have heard of you, Mr. King, By George, men like you live the real life."’ “The wild fancy came booming upon King to kick him over the veranda railing. Gratton was nobody's fool, save his own, and both marked and resented King's attitude. “What's the chance with Gus Ingle's ‘Recret’ this year, Mr. King?’ Gratton demanded silkily. King wheeled on him. “What do you know about it?’ he said sharply. ‘And who has been talking to you?’ * Gratton laughed, looked wise and amusetl, and strolled away, AN EARLY TRYST. “But, my darling daught gasped Mrs. Gaynor, “you don’t in the least understand what you are about!"’ “But, my, darling mother, Remember that the less you ask for merchan- dise the more people are going to ask for it. And don’t forget that low prices ‘need less advertising than high o get more! Also, keep well in mind that the longest thing in this world is a woman’s memory. After a high price she writes: FINIs—after a low price she writes: TO BE CONTINUED. As the beneficiary of a low price she may sometimes forget, but as the victim of a high one—Never! ; 10.’ Let us therefore price our merchandise not high enough to be remembered, but low enough not to be forgotten!! OPPENHEIM, @LLINS & © FULTON STREET — BROOKLYN © mim- a EAST SIDE PATRIOTS _TO HONOR THE FLAG Flag Day Exercises Will Show Patriotism of Melt- ing Pot Section: ' To demonstrate that the great heart of the east side throbs for. Arierita And its flag, the section will declare » half holiday on Wednesday afternoon to take part in the Flag Day exereises at Seward Park, Hester and Hsvex Streets to be conducted by the Down- town Chamber of Commerce. Thous- ands ‘of flags will be distributed to the tenement dwellers and the merchants te be displayed in honor of the day. An interesting feature of the ex: ercises will be a salute to the flag by immigrant men and women nit}; arrived in this country. Twenty-two flags of foreign nations will be helé aloft’ by an equal number of schoo) divisions, which will dip their flags.t the presence of Old Glory which wif be held by an east side girl dressed ab Miss Columbia. Hundreds “of Gold Star mothers and wounded yeterans of the Lost Battalion will form a guard of honor. General Pershing has tentatively accepted an invitation to attend the exercises, A prominent movie actress “will portray the “Statue of ' Liberty.” Several historical tableaux have been arranged. Among the speakers will be Mayor Hylan, Major F. H. La Guardia, Miss Soptile Irene Loeb, General, John Pershing, Col, Theodore Roosevelt} Jusian Goldman, President of People’s Hospital; Senator Bernard Downing; Supt. Ryan and Supt. Ettinger of the ‘Board of Education, Col. Mau, ricé Simmons, Assistant Corporation Counsel Ben Greenspan and Herman Morris of the Chamber of Commerce. 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