" . 10 THE REE: OMAHA, MONDAY, JUNE 5, 1916. o 0 The Social Vortex KoTtllxad from th Motion Piotur Dram of tlia Bam Ham by Ctoorff Klsine. rEATvmiiro the jtoted stab, miss bixlie bubke. CopyriKht, J 1116, by Adelaide M. Hughes. By Mr. and Mrs. Rupert Hughes Romance G7 if- I i J;: DR. WAKK FIELD WHISPERED THE DRKADKUL WORDS 'JO STAFFORD. FIFTH INSTALLMENT. "Daughters are dangerous charRr rierpont," said JuiIkc Frcrtnan. Hie two elclerlv men stood watching the dance which was in full swinx at the coming-out party of Gloria Stafford. The men were related to each other ly marriage the marriage of Staf ford' son David and Freeman' daughter Lois whatever relations that made them. Fierpont Stafford nodded a worried assent to the judge's Matctnetit and, turning his eyes reluctantly from the (face and charm of his own girl, who was dancing with an almost lyric poetry of motion, enfolded in the arms of Richard Freneau, I'ierpont looked forjudge Freeman' girl, Lois, to find a specific lause for the judge's (!cftil remark. What he haw puz zled him considerahly, He saw Lois, not dancing, hut watching Freneau and Gloria. There was a look of unmiMakeahle jealousy and helpless rage on her face. He saw hi son David speak to her and put his hand on her arm, only to have her shake him oil and move away into the crowd. I'ierpont felt suddenly terribly afraid for his son's honor, and a Rnawiiig ache at his heart for Lois' father, who Mood beside him. Hut it was far too delitate a situation for the two men to discuss yet. "Children are hostage to fortune, as ItaCon, the playwright, said," I'ier pont murmured, putting his hand on the other man's arm. "After all, how little it is we can really save thrni from." Gloria was being watched jealously by jet another, Dr. Noyce, who, with the mixed feelings of a lover and an older guardian, felt cut to the iiirk as she passed directly in front of him in Frenrau's embrace, lie could see the look of perfect joy in Gloria's eyes and there was rapture in the whole happy swing of her youthful body. Anger at Freneau' unworth- iness of this pure being almost choked him. When another man took Gloria away from Freneau for the last hJlf of the dance and Freneau reluctantly walked away, Royce asked for a word with him, moving toward the library where they could be alone. Freneau followed with uneasy brava do. Once safe froin observation, Doc tor Royce let his rage break firth. "You contemptible fortune hunter! Five years ago I warned you to keep away from Gloria. You lied to her then and your life is still one long lie," Freneau's face blanched with fury, and he raised his arm to strike Royce but before the calm contempt-in his eyes he changed his mind. He de cided to forego the blow for the pre cut and laughed as bravely as he could. Royce pursued him with an alarming threat. "What if I tell of your affair with a certain married woman?" Freneau gave a surprised start, at tempted to speak, changed his mind again. He was guilty of too much to risk a challenge. 'He was guilty of too much to risk a challenge. Shrug ging his shoulders, he moved sullenly off and out of the room. Royce smiled to himself. "It was a bluff, but it worked." He had caught a glimpse of Lois' jealousy and a faint suspicion had risen in his tnind. Now he wondered if it were confirmed. Royce walked after Freneau and hail the satisfaction of seeing him de part without bidding goodbye to Gloria. Royce thought he had won a signal victory. He would have taken little pleasure in it had he known trfat Freneau left so obediently because Gloria had already granted him a whole afternoon to be spent in her company alone on the following day. Freneau felt so certain of his ability to win a promise of marriage from her with this opportunity that he could alford the seeming compliance with the order of Dr. Royce. As he descended the outer steps of the Stafford home a foot man signaled Ins car to pull into the driveway. A tramp who hail been loitering cm the street watching the gorgeous crowd of guests, caught sight of Freneau and seemed to go mad with rage. He rushed forward, shouting accusations. Freneau struck out viciously with his walking stk-k. The tramp fell to the ground, while Freneau, leaping into Ins linmusinc, motioned his chauffeur to make basic lie leaned out of Ins car it turned and smiled to see the tramp pick himself up awkwardly and run !ter him, rushing wildly through the trailic of Riverside drive. A Frenrau's car turned into a side slreu the ttainp. still in pursuit, caught by an oncoming automobile and kimckrd sidrwjse. One ot tlio tear wheel passed over his legs The car was stopped instantly and the nr. enpanu puked him up t, hurry him to it hospital, Freneau sat b k in a dae at the lin. k tiagedv. lie could ,,ot t. II bow adlv the m.ui was him nor how mull he coiil. depend on his oil if. Iraf front danger in tlm tiutrr, It milled hull omidruMy .i rtii'uiiiilrr aixxtirr renc 01 Ins m initio i. .. ..... , i. - , t , ul t ........ ... (... i ..n. , V ""' ami sieinu out III ..........,.. .... , a .f , ,.,, t..ntoito sfieriiiH.ii ' - ,,,ir mui iingni Weill r .01. mm uv rvposlllf i o i ,,t ,. "t4nlemrnt with lots tt4, ,(,, .tu. ..Mir.,,,. ' , " ' 4 , V,' V sssssssajsW. t I - i . X Vj , , 1 i 1 g!k , " - - - : mi t I I f j-. -Am if , VJ'.' look on Trask's face surely meant death for him if he were overtaken. And now at last he was all but over taken. Soon, howevrr, Freneau broke from his reverie, dismissed it as an unpleas ant memory, smiled at himself for giv ing it any place in his thoughts, and turned Ins mind to Gloria the be witching girl-woman to whom on the morrow he would tender his heart and hand, for all that they might be worth. Meanwhile Gloria herself, tired be yond words, her pretty right hand stiff from the endless shaking of other hands at her reception, her tiny feet weary of their satin slippers and her rars tingling still with the buz of compliments poured into them, was ecstatic as a fulfledged birdling after its first long flight. The last of the guests departing, she threw her arms about her father's neck and gave him a resounding kiss. Swinging her feel free of the floor, she kicked off her slippers. Then she hugged Aunt Hortensia and thanked her, and, please did she and father mind if the new social leader left them and betook herself to bed, where they might end her crackers and milk for her dinner before she toppled off to sleep? i They laughed through their own weariness as Gloria, gathering up her cast-away footwear, proceeded to drag herself tip the staircase, bent far over in imitation of an ancient cripple, Reaching her own room, she screamed lustily to Burroughs, her Fmglish maid, to run a hot bath for her, and for goodness sake to get her out of her wreck of a dress. As Bur roughs fluttered between the two tasks Gloria hummed the "Aloha Oc" that had been played in waltz time for her last heavenly dance with Fre neau. She picked a rose from her dressing table and went through the ritual of "He loves me, he loves nie not, down almost to the last petal, lint finding that it would come out on the tragic "not," she gasped, "How silly!" threw the rose away, casting a shy little smile at herself in the mirror. , n irrnitnti, 1 1 . . n ,ni,... il. ... i . . . ... fully wilt" at d si hredde.1 i, lie f r. , J ,rron,1y fr0,n 1,,1',r kennels when in their veins; love in their hearts. hZh x wrap Jrd They change.l their The pomes pranced and cavorted, in ariressiiiff c-Awn Ami i r ?' ' "s ' '.'T lec- somewhat too sti enuoiislv, Freneau ..ill . i . . HiiKiiiicn v not ia. still humming, to her hath. d,,mo!:.. f.,- ' ' ;: ; -- G.K BILLY BURKE AS GLORIA STAFFORD. Hut she lelt tliein I Irared. tint si he realized how skillful a uniiini l.r.n.i.l.t itn J f .1... i .'u 1. .,..lu . :.. l. .. .. it... .i. t , i . c . . , , . , . , i . .......p,.., i j . mil in n fi,)Mi in i c iii iiuiiniiiiit inem. In the midst of the splashing, while; from the stable yard her shaggy On thrv glided merrily, chattui of liurrouglis was sti aigliieiiuiK the dressing room, she heard; "O Hur roughs, do you think my new fur lined driving coat looks very good on me?" "Ye, miss. do, indeed," answered lUinoughs, surprised at the appaient irreleiame of the question. "And, I'.urroughs!" "Yes, miss.'" pomes harnessed to Hie little Russian the big nothing of voting love, Gloria As she stopped to pet the noses oi the pomes I t i ncut lost lor a moment pointing out paths and place of in teresl, lin k Freneau seeing them only as iney were mirrored in tier eves his loiiiideiice m his own power to j since he could not bear to turn away wm i ii is sman young neaiity en veloped in a great eo.u, which made li..r k. ...... . ...qlU. I I j ... , . .,iiiit i i m, lo t ryrs ue,l!l' 'K. ner cmeKs itiiiie. with (lie cold, III i doll in that, mt Vnotl.er spUsli in he tub and tipple "f l.uig!irr ills tt..t . ' I I, ...L . . 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" Is M '" m.i , . . a, . r , i i to ',.r (if r 11,1. t I ' .' . . i Ivimt Hi I t hlilinma it ' I li't'H I', fH 1 i It- t- i.i i-..... . .. id, ft'oin her lest be lose one fleetinu ex ptcsMoii ol her lace. After 4ever.il ttnl. s of up and down u.iie, tiioti.i turned her pontes otl (he i main road into one lts used, i "I'm taking you to "ne tleatrst old fashioned iai i ihotise, whne we ran have tea and the t.uiiimiest apple hut- ter you tcr lasted, Miall voti like ; M. "I sha'l hie amthti g at,, every, thu g in this w"lM, s . Iouk s I have it with )oii," I reneau bifat'od ram y 1 1 1 v "Ihrit tht ji't rK't" ihorined '' " I at-i-.ii "Voii shall in. si ei. I '! i have H i tea with me, (n,t 1 tn t la'l vl;n !'rv ir i !n- !,e I o . : last it . 1 an hoi, I" e 1 Hiiup I si'iti. t i, i..!, a witii nliasfd i r, i 1 'ii i -hi . 'I in,'. i iy, iloni ini.i I' f ..ii.'i, n ms l at the woithl l.isttu win tii.il y, 4 rtn, tnititf. Ilie I . f en tj , if (! e I ii- t. sighed, 'my five years of probation are up. I've waited patiently and al ways hopefully. Mayn't I have my reward now? Please say that you will marry me quickly and put me out of my misery, will you?" Gloria could not answer. She hung her pretty head and wriggled back a little farther into the grandfather's chair. I'erhaps she did not want to end the luxury of keeping him anxious with a too immediate yes. He would not dally. He picked up the little table that stood between them and putting it aside dropped on one knee before her, like the true artist , love that he was. He clasped his arms about her and. she closed' her eyes and gave him her lips. They heard the untimely hostess approaching and he sat back in" his chair, twirling his mustache, while Gloria tried to look as if nothing had happened. Nothing had happened ex cept a short flight to heaven. On the way home they chattered merrily of the everythings that would make up their new life. The scenery was the same, yet how different I They were betrothed now. For many reasons Freneau was impatient to have her father's sanction as soon as possible. - Gloria decided that she would motor him home with her and beard her parent in hi lair without delay. ' v I'ierpont Stafford was not unpre pared for the "Will you let me marry your daughter?" speech that Richard Freneau made him. He had given his own word five year before that if Freneau and Gloria found them selves in the ame frame of mind at this date he would raise no further objections. He gave up the fight now, and took hi defeat like the true sport he was, graciously concealing his own sad heart. The radiance of his child and the evident sincerity of Freneau almost repaid him; at .least they made him hopeful for her happiness. y One stip ulation only he , insisted upon, that the engagement should not be made public at once. He knew that en gagements were not necessarily cer tain to end in marriage, and he wanted to test Freneau a little further. He insisted upon guarding hi daughter' name to that extent. If anything went wrong with them they should not have taken the great American public into the secret. Fre heau agreed to this, the more readily since it would give him the more time to propitiate and get rid of Lois. And old Trask might have to be given his quietus in one way or arvither. While FVeneau and her father held the council of war, Gloria had gone out to the hall to wait it outcome. There Freneau found her huddled up on the lower step, hugging herself as if she were cold. He rushed to take her in his arms for a kiss. She bat tled him with mock resistance, before she ran up the stairs Ao play Juliet to his Romeo. Then, throwing kisses, they parted. When she reached her room, Gloria found herself shivering with a vio lent chill that all the warmth of her heart could not subdue. Burroughs was instantly alarmed. She sum moned Gloria' father, who wa even Dick! Oh, I'm so glad, so glad you found me I" Then the frenry left her and she sank back exhausted, but content. Dr. Royce realized that he had two an tagonists now to fight death and Richard Freneau both of them try ing to take from him the girl of his heart. Death was the first to fight. Royce was too desperate to treat Dr. Wake field with much formality. He asked a few questions which roused the ire of the old physician. He examined the patient, threw off the smothering blankets and exclaimed, "Fresh air is the best and only treatment for pneu monia." He flung up the window, shoved Gloria's bed against it, and let the cold air from the river sweep into the room and into her tormented lungs. Almost at once her breathing be came less labored. Dr. Wakefield left in as dignified a rage as he could manage. Royce threw away all the Wakefield medicines and gave the nurse a new set of instructions. The nurse, at least, whom Dr. Wakefield had prescribed, seemed a capable one. Royce welcomed her as a val uable ally in the gruesome fight. He arranged to stay all night, and al layed poor old Stafford's fears as best he could. But his own head was near to breaking with terror for the safetv of Gloria's sweet life antl for her happiness if she lived. (To be Continued.) Recommends Chamberlain' "I take plenure In recommending Chm berluin't Colic, Cholera and Diarrohea Rem edy, hevlna used it in my family for the pest thirteen yixru. I have tried other remedies, but Chamberlain'a is the only one that ever Ktve me permanent relief. We are never without It even when on vinit or tummer outinu. and I cannot aev IlllllgS were, as he feared, asUJjJemeree, HarpursviJle, N. y. Obtainable every wnere. more alarmed. He made her go to bed at once, ordered her covered with many blankets, and had hot water bottles filled. T Tie chill did not abate. In a panic he telephoned from Gloria's room to his old family physician, Dr. Wake field, and was fortunate enough to reach him and be assured of his im mediate attendance. Dr. Wakefield was a fussy medical man of the very old school. He had taken good care of th Stafford family, but latterly he had let science outrun him. Still he recognized pneumonia without dif- ticulty. He whispered the dreadful word to Stafford and ordered in two trained nurses and no end of medi cines. I'ierpont Stafford was frantic with anxiety. He telephoned for Gloria's brother and for Aunt Hortensia. Bur roughs fold them of the stolen sleigh ride and Freneau became less popu lar with the Staffords, father and son, than ever before. Days and nights of harrowing fear dragged over that household. Wealth had not dulled affection,' nor could it seem to bribe death. The fever line mounted on the nurse's chart like a mountain side, and Gloria grew weak' er and weaker, except in her deliri ums, when she seemed to be inhab ited by demons of ferocious strength. At length David felt that Dr. Wakefield had been given all the time to experiment with Gloria's life that could be afforded. He was for calling in a young man of the newest school of medical art. He ?alled for Dr. Royce. Royce came with no hesi tation over medical ethics or cour tesies. Gloria was more than a pa tient to him, and old Wakefield was less than a doctor in his eyes, after he had questioned the Staffords as to the manner of Dr. Wakefield's treat ment wrong. It was life or death. Dr. Wakefield could not cope with the di sease. He must be dispossessed as politely as possible. Dr. Wakefield, he learned, was in the sickroom above. Royce would not mince matters or wait on pro fessional etiquette, lie felt the eager ness of a lover in coming once more to the rescue of his idolized Gloria. ; He ran the stairs and walked into the room. He hardly knev his Gloria wliti he saw her. She was in the throes of a wild delirium. She imagined herself once more among the Seminole who had held her in bondage .whetf she ran away in 'Flor ida live years tielore. In her tormenting fancy she was again dressed as a squaw and set to the task of gathering firewood and subjected to the worse task of en during the old squaw's hatred and the young chief's love. She begged him to kill her rather than marrv her and she fought with all her fury, L tfsisoio- A'aL,.f;l,t'. ...I.;,. ...i.'i. e ,i am in iu 3 isi.oe nail Willi one hand and the nurse's black locks with the other. There was no quieting her outcries. "Take me home; my father is rich! He will make you rich! Oh, they don't believe me! They don't believe me! Help! Help!" Then she smiled and cried: "Dick, Dick, it's you! You'll save me! Blessed, beloved ar y-r-- - - .-. -r:--.u.- residents of Nebraska registered at Hotel Astor during the past year. ; Sing! Room, without bsth, f 2.0O CO .OO Double 3.00 to faam Sing! Rooms, with bath, 3.00 to J6.00 Double 4.00 to 7.o Parlor, Bedroom and bath, 10.00 to 14.00 TIMES SQUARE V Ac Broadway, 44th to 41th Street! -1 the center of New York social and business trtivities. In close proximity Co 11 railway terminals. MUTUAL SPECIAL FEATURE if .-r. "&C!!&jS , i'"'1''"' ' Voiij'''"' " jpi m'-'"" A jJ at i A1, , 1 J ....... The spies tram wm racing alongside. The U. S. naval in-estigator automobile dashed ahead at a mile, minute rate. Suddenly a yawning chasm, left by a washout, appeared ahead. It was too late to stop, to swerve! The big machine took the leap-cleared twenty-five feet of space to the opposite bank. Chapter Three of The Film Novel of the Hour! fica-. Starts TODAY ' j Mir.' 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