THE BEE, OMAHA, MONDAY, MAY 22, 1916.
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Caught by the Seminoles
VovtllMrf from tha Motion motor Drama of tha Sama Warn of
Qaorffa Klalna.
rEATrrmnro thd voted itar, kiss iillii bubkz.
Oopyrlght, 19 6. by Adelaide M. lluahea.
By Mr. and Mrs.
Rupert Hughes
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THIRD INSTALLMENT.
Aever before in all her luxurious
young life had Gloria encountered the
slightest hardship. The most ex
quisite of the niceties of existence had
been hem an regularly as the breath
she drew. So she had wearied jji
i hem and rebelled. And now she had
found that adventure was not alto
gether pleasant, either. A primeval
jungle inhabited by a primeval people
Iwas, to ay the least, distinctly un
comfortable. Il had been a busy day for one
young girl. Within twenty-four hours
she had stolen her brother's auto
mobile, and endured Indian rapitivity.
She had had her first proposal of
marriage and from an Indian chief!
I'or the first time she had wanled to
lie. for the first time she had
ainted. She was rather proud of that
- it was so nice and old fashioned to
f lint. Also, she had been rescued
by such a handsome man! And
so modest he was about it!
She had alt these thrilling experi
ences and there was a happv ending;
also a happy future. Slit believed she
was in for a romance When hand-
some young men save the lives of
young women they have to marry
them, don't they? Of course they do.
It is absolutely necessary. Anything
else is inartistic.
Gloria felt it especially lucky that
since fhe had to be rescued fate had
been polite cough to select a good
looking rescuer tor her. he more
flin piumni tin . t irnriu nic ot-iirr
she liked him. Jfe had a nice name,
too a nice, marriageable name.
The only fly in the ointment was
the bad behavior of Dr. Koyce. She
had thought him i harming. But now
he sulked and niioped. J I e did not
want even to" roane along back to
Palm Reach in the big motor that had
brought her father and brother down
hl'O
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the edge of the everglades. Rut
father mane hnu get m
Fortunately there were long dust-
oat, in the car to rover tlorias
.-.riuaw costume and Dr. Royee's dis
reputable wreck of evening dress. Mr.
Freneau was spick and rpai. I'e was
like a hero in a play or a novel, lie
could save a heroine rroni frightful
danger and not spot a collar or
rumple a cuff.
Dr. Koyce was a sight: muddy,
black and blue, his clothes full of
holes and Isimself full of aches and
bruses. 7 he knuckles of his left hand
vcre bleeding. He nursed them
as if they were broken, nut lie
did not mention that he hail smashed
them on the jawbone of a knife-
brandishing Indian while Freneau
was stealing Gloria and the credit
for her rescue and even her affec-
iti';iii,
i Dr. Royce was glum because he
I did not know just what he ought to
lo. He was confronted with a duty
that he could not solve. It was like
some obscure disease, hard to diag
nosticate. To speak up and denounce Freneati
as1 a liar and thief was impoeibie,
Royce had no proof that Freneau
haH nlaveH either the cad or the
coward. He knew only that Freneau
must have seen him battling with the
Indian, and a decent man' would
have come to the assistance of a
fellow white. Even if Freneau had
felt that he ought to put Gloria in
the boat first, lie might have come
back to help Royce. But Freneau
had left Royce to his fate. That was
ugly.
Royce heard Pierpont Stafford say
to Freneau: "My boy, you've earned
the $5,000 reward offered. You've
earned a million dollars!"
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;ow Ivoyce ich inai uc unucuiuuu,
Freneati had been coaxed into the
everglades by that $5,000 lottery
prize. He had won it; and it looked
Sas if Freneau were expecting to win
gloria's love in the bargain. For
Gloria was simply devouring him
with her eyes.
Royce knew little about Freneau,
and that little was not to his ad
vantage. Freneau neglected his of
fice but neglected no opportunity for
a love affair. Dr. Royre had come to
Palm Reach as the private physician
of did Judge Freeman, and he had
abundant opportunity to see the influ
ence of Freneau on the judge's
daughter, I.ois. It was not a whole
some influence. Royce dreaded the
look of adoration in Gloria's eyes as
they dwelt on Freneau. But what
could Poyce do? He could not order
,Mr Staf't'otd not to pay Freneau
li he reward, lie could nut boast of
fhis own derds So he kept silence.
On 'lie long ride hnik In Paliil
Bci !' they pasted the spot where
Glciia luirl left her hi other's racing
;ar ii the ocean. T hey paused to
look at U. Several men and a team
if mules eie struggling to drag it
nil "if the water
Iaid (trevv augiy and wanled U
knn what Ghiita a K"H)g In do
b'iit pettiHii him anottier car She
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harshly and said:
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1 ne diagnosis in jour case is ciear.
You are hopelessly infected with yel
low fever; but yon are immune to all
honorable sentiments. Don't lose
your head, though; and don't try any
of your tricks on little Gloria Staf
ford." Freneau laughed again, a more ugly
laugh this time; "That seems to me
to be Miss Stafford' business, and
certainly none of yours."
"I'm going to make it mine," said
Royce.
I-'reneau walked away. He would
not even give Royce the satisfac
tion of an excuse for trouncing him
Royce almost smothered with sup
pressed rage. He had an upperrut
in his undamaged right hand which
he was fairly aching to plant on
Freneau's jaw an exact duplicate of
1 thc one he had administered to Chief
i Kaii-alni
Pirrpont Stafford was overjoyed to
have his lost ewe lannib restored to
the fold, and he was childishly happy,
till he realized that, alter all, she was
only temporarily his. She had es
ranerl marrviiik- the Seminole, but
that did not mean that she would es-
capf marrying somebody
After Gloria had enjoyed all the re
deeming influences of a tub, and a
shampoo, and hne linen and a silk
frock, she found that her interest in
Mr. Freneau was a keen as ever.
She even felt grateful to Loi Free
man for flirtina with David. She sat
i m)t on ,h( ,Hge of the v,rinda ,nH
Ha v.rlrumfd.
When her father sauntered by and
asked her what she was up to she
answered:
"O, nothing! I'm just basking in
the sun."
But when Pierpont came by that
way a little later he found Dick Fre
neau basking in Gloria' most be
witching smile. They were Romeo
and Juliet at Palm Reach, separated
only by a low wall and a clump of
rhododendrons. And Romeo was
reaching across that with his walking
stu k.
It was the first time Pierpont had
seen his child in a flirtation. He did
not like her in that employment. He
took her by the ear and led her away,
She protested at the indignity.
Pierpont let go her ear, He had
always been afraid of her and un
able to manage her. He was not afraid
of Freneau, however. He went for
him at once. He was about to be
gin with a stout "How dare you speak
to my daughter?" He paused feeling
that without Freneau's help he might
have had no daughter to be spoken to.
Tierpont was used to accomplish
ing his ends with the weapon of the
check book. He drew the weapon
now and a fountain pen and said:
"By the way, there1! that reward.
It will give me great pleasure to pay
it over."
He wrote after "Pay to the order
of" the namt "Richard Freneau" and
the amount "Five thousand and no
hundredths dollars- $5,000.00." Fre
neau's fingers twitched to clutch the
fortune, but his brain advised him to
play for higher stakes. He put away
the temptation with a proud smile.
"It is reward enough to have been
able to be of service to Miss Staf
ford." If Gloria had not adored him be
fore, that chivalrous speech would
have won her. It quite disarmed Pier
pont. With his check book ruled out,
his best weapon was gone. But he
blustered all the harder: "My daugh
ter is a little girl. I won't nave her
fooling time away with you." She
must get her education first. She is
hardly more than a child."
"O, papal" Gloria cried.
Pierpont went on: "And she's go
ing to school at onre. We start north
on the next train."
This was another thing again. Fre
neau quailed before the old capitalist's
glare, which was as fierce as the In
dian chief's had been. But Gloria was
used to that glare. She knew the ten
der heart back of it. and she said:
"Then Mr. Freneau will come north,
too, and we shall see each other all
we want to. For we love each other,
don't we, Mr. Freneau? Desperately!
Don't we, Mr. Freneau?"
Mr. Freneau's answer was blurred.
Pierpont studied the two voung
people.
He had his own opinion of
Freneau. It was formed on brief ae
quaintance, but he was a judge of
men.
"You love each other, eh? Desper
ately, too? Well, well!
Now look
here, hr said, after a quick balancing i
of his mind, "of course, you both
know that Gloria is too young for
marriage. Mie must prepare nrrseii.nun from any danger.
tor the solemn responsibilities of life
and graduate at a
good finishing i
school. Now, it you will wait, and
not see each other or write to each
other, till then, and if you still love
each other then, I will not oppose
! your marriage. I'll do all I can to
'nuke sou hannv Is It a harcain?"
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(iiic the demand in the cold ees of
the iinlFonaire To be accepted as
Ins s"ii in law at any time was a mar
velous pionusr lie lutlrned to give
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one dance with linn, however, or one
moonlight conversation. She had
not had five minutes' chat with him
since the rescue. Kven in fhe dugout
there had been a stupid Indian look
ing on.
She did not help in the parking
with much grace, There was one
consolation. Her father was going
to send her to school. 1 hat meant
an escape from her demon governess
and those lonely hours of sludv and
recitation. She would have girls of
her own age for fellows.
At the railroad station she was not
surprised to find Mr, Freneau wait
ing. She was enraged to have her
father break in on her first few words
and drag her on the train. She
slipped away and came bark to finish
what she had started. Then the gov
erness appeared and hauled her
aboard. She Mole back down the
Steps once more, only to have her
father storm down after her and
carry her off bodily. Then the train
started, and she had no chance to
say the million and a half things a
young woman would naturally have
to say to her fiance op leaving him
for five years.
Freneau felt rather lonely, too.
when he saw the long train dwindle
away northward. He wondered
when he would see Gloria again. She
was a sweet little thing, m spile of
her money. She was orettier than
anv girl he had ever met. He kept
telling himself so even when he
flirted with some other pretty girl
he told himself that she was not half
so pretty as Gloria. That was his
idea of fidelity, for, of course, he
could not be expected to be a saint.
He had not promised himself any
thing so foolish.
Five years is a long time, and many
things can happen in the eighteen
hundred odd days and night. Lois
F'reeman went porlh on the same
train with Gloria, as did her father
and that hound of a Royce.
Freneau hated Royce, for we
rarely like the people whose prop
erty we have stolen. Freneau would
have given the impudent a sound
beating, too, if he had not seen the
way Royce attacked that poor Indian
and knocked him senseless. He had
no desire to go against those same
sledge-hammer fists. He was glad
that Royce was gone. He hoped
that he might never see him again.
Gloria was gone and Lois was
gone, but an attractive youth like
Freneau was not left alone in such
multitudes of women as gather at
Falm Heach
with no more serious
purpose than escaping the cold drafts
of the north and the torments of
boredom in the south. Many women
had to tell him how brave it was of
him to go into the depths of the ever-
glades and tear from the savages
there a
house.
daughter of the Stafford
Many of them told him that
they would be glad to be rescued by
He spent so much time Catherine
the applause from fair women that
when Ihe season closnl at Palm
Reach his firm gave him his full lib
erty. He had done nothing, they
wrote, to encourage them to pay bun
further salary. He had to go next to
place where hi fame had not
rca:hf dwhrre he had only his win
ring personality as capita! "lie lounrl
men rather hard t imprest, but
there Mas aUayl tome woman fool
ish enough ti believe m In beauii
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When he saw the legend, "Freneau
& Mulry, stocks and bonds, members
of the stock exchange," on the door
and on the leterheads, Freneau felt
so important that he did not care
what Pierpont Stafford or his daugh
ter thought of him. He was the
voung Napoleon. One of these days
he would buy and sell Pierpont Staf
ford. His success enlarged his acquain
tance, his attractiveness, and his
temptations.
He was on the crest of the wave
when he. met Lois Freeman again. He
was studying the diamond crop in a
jeweler's window and wondering
just what peace offering he should
buy for a certain person whom he
had rendered violently jealous when
who ahould step out of the shop but
Lois Freeman I
Farh stared at the other with eyes
ready for flirtation. F.arh rerog
med the other as a former Palm
Reach comber.
"Why, Mr. Freneau!" was Lois'
exclamation. Her language was not
so brilliant as her eyes.
"Why, Miss I'reenian! was his
equally brilliant answer. The same
Ihuig was true of him.
"Rut I'm no longer Miss Free
man," said she.
"I'm still Mr, Frenesu," said be.
I in now Mrs. .Stafford."
Staftord! Stafford? The name !
sounds familiar," said Frenrau
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ing a trust in Lois and working hard
to give her the luxuries she exacted
with increasing gre-d.
Five years was a long time for
Gloria, too; but not so long as she
told herself. Her" girl soul did not
feel the emotional demands of a
grown woman. She could put Fre
neau's picture on her bureau and find
satisfaction in paying it worship.
In the school she had discovered
a new world. She fought her way
to the captaincy of a basketball team
as if it were the presidency of an
Amazonian republic. She even took
an interest in some of her text bookk.
She thought she was irery wl :J.ed.
but she did nothing more virirtw than
hold a chafing dish orgy now and
then in her room. And even tnere
some teacher was sure to bear the
muffled laughter and march in stern
ly and march all the girls to their
own rooms. But the severest teach
ers found it hard to fro.vn into
Gloria's smiling eyes.
Many and many a time she told
to her breathless girl audiences the
bloodcurding story of her harrowing
experiences in the everglades and the
tremendous glory of her rescuer's
valor. The magnitude of I'reiieau's
feat had crown a little with rettllinr
but his riiotogranh wa alwavs ron-
vmruir nrimf In llie envums su.
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while his own eves were devoted to
casting such evil spells.
I'nconseiously Lois revenged her
husband on Freneau, for while
Freneau was causing Lois to forget
her duties to the partnership she
had entered into with David Stafford
her fascinations led Freneau to neg
lect his duties lo his partnership with
Frank Mulry. He spent time and
money on Lois that should have
been devoted to the intrirate strata
gems not to say treasons and spoils
of Wall street.
He, and Mulry in the flush of their
early successes had spread out had
established branch offices in Albany.
UufTalo, Cleveland. Detroit, Chicago,
St. Louis, and Pittsburgh. While
the tide set their way thene branches
served as so many hands to gather
in shekels. Rut when the hard times
came upon the financial world they
served as so many mouths to feed.
The office of Freneau K. Mulry be-
Uaine one of those dismal places
where the pay roll is a weekly agony
i and where the watchword is "every-
thing going out and nothing coming
in."
She naturally imputed his neglect to
some other charmer. She could not
j believe him guilty of ov ervvork. She
grew jealous and their meeting were
stormy. She kept his telephone busy
to make sure that he was at his rietk.
She began to annos him. lie wished
to be rid of her, but the would not
be jilted.
I It was during this crisis that C! iria
marked off the last month "f her five
years' ordeal. She wt ambitious
enough to go on and finish her course
and get her diploma. She compressed
ner lasr year of school into half a
year and graduated all alone in mid
winter. She dashed into her room at col
lege for the last time, her somber
black gown flying from !iei shoulders
ana in her hand her parchment di
ploma fin Latin (hat she rould nearly
translate). She looked like a little
Portia for a moment.
She threw her diploma in the air and
her mortarboard after it. She whipped
off her black robe and began to juggle
school books, letting them fall where
they fell. She danced a jig over her
scholarly past and made haste to park
her things and dart out to meet her
future. "Freneau" was her snellmcr
of "Future."
The journey to New York from
school was as long as the journey to
New York from Palm Resell had been
J'tars ago; only then she had been
traveling away from her romance,
now toward it.
When her father met her at the
train she hugged him almost to suf
focation, then asked him how dear
Mr. Freneau was the last time he saw
nun.
"The last time I saw dear Mr. Fre
neau was at Palm Reach," said Pier
pont, who had almost forgotten his
name and had hoped that Gloria had
forgotten it entirely.
As aoon as she reached fhe house
on Riverside drive and embraced the
old servant and shook hand with
the new Gloria, look her father into
his library and asked him for Mr.
Freneau' telephone number. She
had found "Freneau & Mulry" in the
book already, and she said, "Do you
suppose that Mr. Mulry' Freneau'
Freneau ia my Mr. Freneau?''
"I don't know, I'm sure," Tierpont
grumbled. "But it wouldn't be cor-
rect.J.,?.te,eP,10n' ,0 o"y man,
would it?'
'! ,uPPse nt." Gloria admitted.
.,,,freV Pfn? 1,11 wri, him."
How long has it ben since you
wrote him last?" said Pierpont, anx
iously. h'.' ?',f ntveT written him at
all, Gloria answered, shocked. "I
promised, didn't I?"
Pierpont kissed her brow with a
profound pride, Then he ventured
to ay, "Don't you think it would be
nicer if you waited for h
you up?
Gloria gnawed the end of the pen-
u r. ,mom'nt. nl then sighed
Nvith all the impatience of youth in
the shackles of conventionally. "I
suppose so." She flung down the
pen and rendered haw she could
manage delicately to attract Mr
Freneau s attention without seeming
to.
i( 'Byi the wav," .aja; Pierpont,
there a big gala performance at the
ivirironoiiian opera house tonight,
special benefit for some war reli
ii. ..ii , . . . ' '
some u'ar ,kI,.
nnuin you like lo gor
ou hetr cried Gloria
school girl elegance.
with
At about that lime Freneau was
just putting down the telephone in
hi office, Lois had called him fo
say thai her husband was taking her
to the benefit and she hoped that he
would be there. She had something
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her knowledae ihsi l.tnrn h,l in,.
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' is in .sriv iitrw a n was ill I in
l'v with the meninrv of Krenean
Loi wit in an u,.i, ,A .. ...a
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I rene.u to iwear that he would not
'"'sake her loi tilona
F,eneu vvat obbvioiit of Ihit hut
h M m inlenli..r, ol keeping' hit
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her back and an air of almost child
ish immaturity.
The Gloria who marched up the
broad steps of the Metropolitan was
a young lady of JO, one with her hair
up, her head full of knowledge, and
her features changed as the bud is
changed when it becomes a rose. Her
costumes was the latest thing from
Pans, still Pans in spite of the war.
Gloria could hardly climb the step
to the level of Freneau. Her father
did not know him. but she did, She,
left her father's side and hurried to
Freneau's lie did not hear her or
know that she was at his elbow, trem
bling with rapture and trying to keep
from crying his name aloud and seiz
ing him by the arm that had saved
her from the Indians. She coughed
and he did not hear. At last she ven
tured the terrific deed of touching
his sleeve with her finger tip. He
turned and she inurmered:
"Mr. Freneaua. I believe."
He tinned, saw that a most exquis.
ite creature had addressed him, won
dered who under the sun she was,
lifted his bat. made a voilent pretense
at remembei tug her perfectly, having
met her just the day before, and ex
claimed: "Why, hello! I'm so glad
you got luve."
He put out his hand, but hers fell
away before he rould clasp it She
hail thru'-t her arm into her father's
elbow and hurried him along toward
the door of their box while Freneau
whirled and stared.
Mulry stared, too, and muttered"
"Good, Yord, who's the new peach
with old Pierpont!'
"It must be hi daughter; it'
Gloria!" Freneau gasped
"I lis daughter Do you know her?"
' "Know herl" Freneau laughed.
"Well, rather! I'm engaged to her in
a way."
"Kngaged in a wav!" Mulry re
peated. "Well, marry her quick.
Her old man's money will come in
mighty handy."
Freneau leaned against the balus
trade thinking so hard and recasting
his plans so rapidly and with such en
thusiasm that Lois not only touched
his arm but pinched it fiercely before
he noticed tier. Then he siared at
her with a cold indifference that ver
ilird her wildest fears.
Meanwhile Gloria was sitting in
miserable splendor on a little gold
chair in a box like a prison cell to her,
and she was batting her eyes fast to
shake away fhe tears that came pell
uiell, Mir was wringing her little
white-gloved hands and trying not to
sob aloud: "He doesn't remember
me! He doesn't remember me!"
(To be Continued. )
t He 1 nl In Rr,
An oM woman wlin liver) in the country
reecntlv visited some friends In the city.
Jinrniir her atay ahr was taken lo con
"The Merchant of Venice," a ploy alia
had wtlrieeaed more than thirty veais be
fore and which she had always hnd .
detlrr lo see again, railing nut Any. a
friend aakad her how Ihe prevlmja niches
perforrttanr compared with that of Unity
yenra a no.
Well," aha replied, "Venli seems to
live amartened n a lilt, but that Hhy
loea I ih aaniB mean, grasping rreatura
lie ua to be." Philadelphia fertger.
-621
residents of Nebraska
registered at Hotel
Astor during the past
year, i
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Singla Koorru, with bath.
fi-o to fb.oa
Doubla fa 00 to 7.00
Parlor, Bedroom and bath,
jlio.oa to f 14 00
TIMES SQUARE
At Broadway, 44th to 4iuS Straeta '
tha canter of New York's social and
buainatt activitiei. In dot proximity to
all railway terminals.
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