THE BEE: OMAHA, MONDAY, JULY 24, 1916. Gloria s Roman By Mr. and Mrs. Rupert Hughes The Midnight Riot of tha Same Kama by fgom tlu tcotloa Vinton Snu troon; aueuin. rBATVBnro tki votes mas Bn.i.ni bxtbh. CopyrUht, 1916. by Adelaide M. Hughes.. THIRTEENTH INSTALLMENT. "To be miles from home without itreet cr fare it a luxury for the daughters of millionaires. Gloria Stafford would have taken her first experience as a great joke if she had not been devoted to so important an errand. The footpad who stole her handbag also stole her transportation. She felt that she might as well have been lost in the Florida everglades 'gain. -Of course, she could have had pro tection by appealing to almost any of the wayfarers. But, after her encoun ter with the pickpursc she looked on verybody wtih suspicion. She slipped through the crowded streets and flit ted along the deserted byways on the lunt for the murderer of her lover. She was afraid of everybody and sverything, but most afraid of losing that man. At last she saw him again ahead of her. He was wandering rather aim lessly. He had apparently dropped in it one or more of the little swinging doors that flapped on ivery corner. Gloria hastened after him, but before the could quite catch up he clambered on a surface car. The conductor had to help him aboard. He was so busy at that task that he did not see Glor ia's wjldly waved hands or hear her command. "Stop that carl" ' If Gloria had caught the car the could not have paid the fare, though the might hava, given the conductor a nickel't worth of flirtation. At any rate, the missed the car. Several other cart came near not missing her at the ttood irretolute in the middle of the street . . , . Thm iirh bust ed along. Gloria felt more at home. She did not have tn nav thr taxicab till the end of the voyage. She could probably have the fare charged. From the look of the ramshackle thing she could buy the .k L. n,vt tn nnthins. She told the taxicab to follow the street car ahead ! and keep near it, witnoui passing . The taxi driver wat greatly impressed. "What"! the game mist, Are you a lady detackatuff?" Gloria looked wise and taid nothing. At the hopped in Dr. Royce caught tight of her from a distance. A taxicab was rather conspicuous down there. He wished for another, er a pair of wingt. Then a motor ambulance came along,' banging itt bell. Dr. Boyee had a wide acquaintance in am bulances. He dared to ttop thil one and ask the interne for a ride. And to they went the taxicab eh etraat cart the am- hnlince nnriuing the taxicab. It Bn annrnnrmte nlace for an am bulance. It wat quite likely to be I needed. . But the ambulance naa to turn into a tide ttreet before it over took Gloria, and Royce waa com pelled to drop off and pursue afoot. Then the ttreet car that carried Trask stopped to abruptly that Gloria't taxicab ahot on past it, al mott annihilating Trask at it whuied by. Gloria caught a glimpse of Trask leaving the car, grazing the taxicab and reeling down a dark street She pounded on the glass and put her head out to check , her driver. She ordered him to back up. He backed into the very street car that Trask had iust left. There was a crash, tinkle of broken guast and Gloria was evicted through the broken door. "," The chauffeur got down and began the usual wrangle with the motorman and the conductor of the street car; the passengers piled out; a crowd gathered. Two policemen ran up and began to make notes. Gloria tugged at the coat of the chauffeur, but he wat too busy to pay any attention and the had- no money to pay him. So the left him and ran for Trask, not entirely sorry that she had saved her fare. The delay had enabled Dr. Royce to gain tome ground, but he lost it again trying to ask the ex cited chauffeur where hit passenger was. . . Gloria could tee Tratk't tall, grii xled head over the heads of the crowd and she wat nearly at hit heel when a be'lated truck, bearing a long steel girder, drove across her path. It seemed to take forever to move by. When at last it cleared the way Trask wat almott out of tight He heti tated before two or three saloon doort and Gloria had retrieved most of her M (Mi i,Xi. aW V. -ar W -:-fo8V&Xttr ;wS., .-EWiL IP J ' J, A ) : iff I: THE ZEST OF BATTLE FILLED lost distance. Then, suddenly, he turned and dashed into a barroom. Gloria was headstrong and she startled herself with her own behav ior, but instinct drew the line at en tering tuch a place. Her eyet were attracted by the sign, "Ladies' en trance," over a side door. She did not know that it led to a large dance hall at the rear of the barroom. She ven tured along the grimy corridor until she heard the music and the shuffling Then the understood and would Wo retreated if a brace of typsy gun men had not come lurching in from the street and cut off her escape. She backed away from them in terror and back into the dance nan a mrgc, noisy, dirty room, filled with vicious or shabby characters. Couples were ' .l.n..n,.P;at lOinrhru or dancing in ma, . sprawling about the tables. Gloria was of such a different sort that her sudden appearance caused a silence. She turned and stared. A hni-lv ruffian, called Choey. a wa terfront beau, amoking a cigarette ..... t,r ami leaving his com panion, went to Gloria with admiring eninusiasiu, uu Hz..-. "Cheese, kid, but you re chust my ttyle, an" chutt in time for a torn. Gloria declined hit invitation with terrified thanka and started for the door, but Choey seised her by the waist, whipped her into his arms and t with her. She was more disgusted than afraid. She re sisted vainly, pushing against him and struggling. He laughed; the crowd laughed. She struck up at the villain t face, but he held his head too nign for her to reach, . and, laughing, whirled her round and round through the rowd. "" About thit time Dr. Royce was in hot purtit of Gloria. He had caught a glimpse of her hat, and he thought he saw it turn in at a door. He was almost more angry than anxious. He tried all the doort. At length he reached the dance hall. He glanced at the crowd and felt sure that Gloria could not be there. He waa about to retreat when Choey't late companion, Moll admired him and danced up to him, inviting him to invite her to a honk hit head with po- most astonishing Gloria. She had lite regrett. And the he saw Gloria a been to enraged by her captor t in- AUTOS CUT IN OH REAL ESTATE MEN Many Families Who Can Only Afford One Buy Motor Oar Instead of a Home. BUSINESS - GOOD, THOUGH sistence that- she seized him by the neckscarf ,and leaping up, caught him by the hair and dragging his head down, slapped his face. Choey was a believer in the equal ity of women, and he made ready to return blow for blow. Royce made a wild rush and blocked the attack. He drew Gloria's arm through his and started ouj. - The crowd stopped dancing and watefied. Choey was not in the habit of surrendering. He let out a yell and seized Glorias other arm. Royce broke his grip by jiu jitsu and flung him off. He fell against a table, up setting the occupants, who rose and struck at him, then at one another. Choey leaped at Royce. The zest of battle filled the air. Royce put Gloria back of hiin and met Choey half way. Royce was a college boxer and Choey had a schooling in the East Silk rings. It was a pretty exhibition of two schools of science. The spec tators were of divided opinions and began to1 take sides. Men and women quarreled and smote. The whole place fell into up roar. Royce was attacked on all sides. He seized a chair and cleared a !nice for Gloria. It was wrenched from him. Bottles were thrown. Royce went to his knees and rose with a gash on his head. Gloria did her best to protect him till he got up, but she was a novice in such scenes. Through a terrific melee Royce slowly fought back ward to the door. Even the musi cians entered the tight. Gideon Trask, never dreaming that he was the cause of it all. watched the bat tle from the barroom door, through which the aproned barkeepers en tered the fray. , Choey's neglected lady friend be gan to fear for him. She forgave him the slight he had put on her, and when she saw him slip on the wet floor and go sliddering under the feet of the tramolintr herd she was alarmed for his manly beauty. she dashed from the woman a en trance and down the street to where two policemen ttood. She ran up to them, yelling: "Say, dere'a a twell guy in dere, moiderin' de whole bunch." The policemen ran with her, rap ping the pavement. One of them stopped to telephone :the station for i "If it were not for the automobiles I could do twice as much real estate business," taid an Omaha real estate man a few days ago. "It it remark-, able how the automobile business has cut in on thit real ettate business. It stands to reason that when a man spends his only $1,000 for an automo bile, he does not spend it for a home or a lot And anyone knows that there are thousands of families who cannot afford both a car and a home." The aame real estate man gave a glaring example of the point he was making. He took a prospective buyer to see a number of modest Jiomet. Finally the prospect found one that Just suited him. . The price was right too, and the prospect remarked that he had at last found just what he wanted. He brought hit-wife out and pointed out the fine points of the ' house and its desirability at a modeat little home. "Yea, I know John," the taid. "But I m p0 no jaquiauiaj noX uaqt could have either home or a car, and .1 want the car. . That settled it The real estate .man's crest fell, and he lost the tale. Also the prospective buyer dropped his feathers and slipped back home to write a check for a touring car. The automobile man does not "worry. He it getting all the bett of it the real estate men claim. : They are not the only onet who uffar from the extreme popularity v.;.v:..:;v:.:: oiautdmobilet. The Jewelry men are complaining the tame way. Both the jewelry wholesalers and the retailers are noticing this, and it it being felt out in the ttate, as well at in Omaha and the larger citiet. Jeweler point out that both automobilea and jewelry are luxuries and that many women are sacrificing diamonds for the sake rf antna. - :i - Nevertheless, the timet are to good in Nebraska that there it busmest enough for the auto man, the jeweler and the real ettate man.'1 This is evident from the fact that in spite of the hot summer weather, which brings -the summer lull in the real estate business, some good resi dence property is being told, tome good sized business blocks are ttill chansins hands, and newly platted tractt of city lott are going patsably welt, considering the time of year. . Nathan Horn Purchases Five Houses From Tukey & Son Nathan Horn has lust purchased five houses for approximately $12,000. The houses are located at 2021 Burt street 1559-63 North Seventeenth ttreet. 1558 North Sixteenth street and 4219 North Twenty-fourth street J. B. Robinson acted as agent tor Mr. Horn, and the property was purchased of A. P. Tukey & Son.- This is the third arroun of houses Mr. Horn has purchased through A. P. Tukey & Son in the last six months. . Officer Slashed With Knife , While Making Arrest of Negro While trying to arrest Leroy Bush, negro, who had been raising dis turbance at the Underworld cafe, at Ninth and Davenport streets, Police man M. P. Ryan was severely cut about the face by a knife wielded by the negro. Ryan emptied hit pittol at the pritoner and finally ttopped htm, though none of the bullets took eliect . r- "ri . f . i SK ly rn , J?" 'Sax. SHE SEIZED MUTRY'S HAND A ND WRUNG IT. BRIEF CITY NEWS TftwnMnd'a for apartta Godt.N Kteetrie Ifciw, tte BursMa-Qrandaa Go. Hara Root Print tt Now Bwtoon Praia. Half-karat Whltt DUiaoodl, 7t. Bdbolm. Montr Available for toons, day of la inaction, by r. D. Wand. Waad Bids. "ToHar'a Matla Prairam," olaaalflad oao tlon today. It appaara In Tha Baa aiolu alvaly. Find out what tha various moving plctura thaatara offar. Blroreo Daeroo Omntad -Ado Andaraon haa bean trantad a dlvoroo from Arrld Andaraon. Rlanaaar on LooiataM A poatal card from Albert Klaaaeer atataa ha la now on tha United atataa battleehlp Louialana, on tha aaat eoaaL Major Barker Sprnlna Hip Major John Barker, veteran employe of the- health office, la confined to hlo noma with apralned hip. J Soolallate to BaMOt-Tha aoolallat party will hold In fifth annual banquet at tha hall In tha tytlo bulldlnf next Wednaaday eventns at S o'clock. Motoriata Fined Ele-ht violators of the. trafflo resulatlona were arraigned before Juda-e Charlaa Kubat In police court and fined from IMS to So each. Fllea Bankruptcy Petitlen Jullua Zells- aon, doing bualneai aa tha American Bcl- tllnc company, filed a petition In bank ruptcy, ttabllltlee, I10.ISI; aaaeta. ll.Ht Tenth Breaka Hie Ana Eddie Bayal. I- year-old Bouth Bide boy. Buffered a broken arm yeaterday afternoon. when ha fell from a fence near hla home. . Ha Is at Clarkaon hoapltal. - ... Larman Btarta Floral Shop Lee Larmon. for yeara employed at tha Henderaon floral ahop, realtned Saturday night. Ha will re open the ehop next to tha Kontenelle hotel next month. ' Mlaa Powers Entertains Mlee Ethel Pow era, lilt Burt street, entertained yeaterday afternoon tn honor of Mlee Stella, Millar of Ed car. Nab., who la vlaltlnc at the R. U Tlnkham awma. ....... Flagere Are Henaebed By ran MeDermott of Bellavna, working at tha Beacon Preaa, Eleventh and Howard atreeta, suffered three emaahed flniera when hla hand oaaght In tha maohtaerr. Brian Prieaaar ta Oaanlaa Buck Mna- grove haa been brought to Omaha from Uacay. Neb., by Deputy Marehal Morgan on a ohargo af Introducing llojwor on the Omaha Indian reeervatlon. SacUlleta Gather Ban The Bute Social lata' aeaoclatloB will hold tta annual conven tion In Omaha, beginning Monday. Two hundred from vartoua parte of tha elate are expected to attend the meeting. Banmlnatloa for Hand Janitor An exam ination waa held In the federal building ta the patrol wagon. Two other po licemen galloped in from side streets. Royce and Gloria had struggled through to the door just as the po licemen poured in, at their backs. Royce being the first man they found, they seized him roughly. Gloria interecded with anger and wat threatened with a back-handed blow. Policemen had to act quickly and vigorously in riots, and these of ficers were not accustomed to find ing well-bred young women from good homes in that quarter. All the gang, men and women, in cluding Moll, pointed to Royce and to Gloria as the disturbers of a peace ful gathering. While they yelled and wrangled a patrol wagon rolled into the street and backed up to the curb. The reserves tumbled out. A second wagon was on the way up. The police began to hustle every body toward the wagons. Gloria was willing enough to leave the place, but the thought of taking a ride in the patil wagon was absolutely in tolerable. When an officer tried to shove her along she brushed his hand from her arm and snatched off his hat. crying: 'Take off your hat when you speak to ine." The officer was enraged, then amazed. He picked up his hat, put it on took it off, and, then bowed to her in mock politeness. Then she went out very naughtily. The whole crowd was rushed into the two patrol wagons, except Trask, who had hidden back of the bar when the, officers descended. As Gloria sat in the wagon cling ing to Royce's arm and shivering with shame, a blowzy female with a long feather in her hat leaned over and plucked her by the sleeve. Gloria winced. The crone laughed and said: "Don't give your really 'truly name, dearie." Gloria blushed a little deeper, but she was thankful for the hint, and said so. She advised Royce to do the same, and she set about trying to imagine a good nom de patrol wagon. It was wasted energy for, though she didn't know it, she was going right back to the night court she came from going as a guest and not as a spectator. At that very moment the police wires were notifying Judge Freeman that a raid had been made and a load of prisoners was coming. The courtroom was empty. The at tendants were yawning. The judge was sentencing a young pickpocket. He dismissed court, rose and went to his retiring room. Gloria's father was there, impatiently looking at his watch and wondering where on earth his daughter was. He had searched for her in vain and returned to the place of her disappearance. i . The judge was taking off his robe .when the attendant called him to the telephone. He listened, nodded his head, put up the telephone and turned to Pierpont: "We have to wait a little while. They have just raided an East side dance hall. Pierpont looked at his watch for the unnumbered time and paced the floor, humming, "O, Where Is My Wandering Girl Tonight'" The old crone had fallen asleep on Gloria's shoulder, her hat feather was tickling Gloria's nose. Gloria and Royce looked at each other. She snuggled close to him for shelter. He was very tender with her. She re coiled, remembering, and said: "O, I forgot I'm not speaking to you any more." Royce tried to appease her. She turned her back on him. She hated him immensely, considering how much she liked him. Then the wagon backed up. The police yelled, "All outl" Gloria recognized where she was. She did not know whether to .be glad or sad now that she was com ing into Judge Freeman's power. The prisoners were hustled down an alleyway and through an iron door and upstairs like frightened sheep. Then they were herded into a big room of evil odor and appearance. Gloria cowered before the disgrace of being one of the common victims of the law. The law looked differ ent to her from here, and she felt almost a sympathy for the disrepu table crowd that had been gathered in with her. Then she saw Frank Mulry. She had forgotten his existence, to say nothing of the fact that she had abused justice and asked the judge to detain him. Mulry had not seen her when she whispered to the judge. The sight of her now at one of a huddle of tuch wretches made him question his eyes. "' . s ' He had fled from the tnowt of Westchester to the palms, of Florida to escape her, and back again, only to be caught in a cell as a fellow prisoner. , But Gloria forgot her own dubious position in her triumph. She advanced on him and murmured: "And now, Mr. Mulry, I have got you at last. I want to have s few words with you." "Sit down," he said, offering her a place on a bench. "No, thanks," she answered. He rose, and she demanded: "What do you know about poor Mr. Frenau's death that you are afraid to tell me?" Mulry could not escape. She would not relent. "Why did he write me those letters before he went away? Why did he deceive me as to where he was going? Where was he actually going?" Then, in that strange place, inspi ration came to Mulry, and he spoke, the beautiful fie he had not been able to think of before. He said: "Miss Stafford, poor Dick had noth ing dishonorable to conceal from you. He was ill. His doctor told him he must have an operation for appendi citis. He would have to be in a hos pital. He was afraid that if he told you that it would endanger youf health. You were so ill then, and so frail. So he concocted that imaginary . business trip, and wrote the letters, and as I was going on a journey to our branch offices, he had me mail them. I only learned of his death when I returned." ' Gloria almost swooned, with joy. The explanation.was so like what the Dick she loved would have done that she could not doubt it. It was too beautiful not to be believed. It lighted the whole -dingy cell with its radiance. Her Jove for Freneau came back in a blaze of splendor. She seized Mul ry's hand and wrung it. She Mid much more to say to him, but the po lice began to yell to the prisoners to come along. It was a cruel return to haYsh fact, but she had once more her ideals and her mission, and she marched into the court room with the pride of a lithe empress going to her execution. She was lost in the crowd, and the judge did not see her at first. Nor did her father, who sat at his side. The police told their story and thrust Doctor Royce forward as tlie chief offender. When the judge -saw him he was astounded; and then Gloria emerged and the judge sprang from his desk. Pierpont leaped from his chair. Of all the places in the world to find his exquisite childl The judge asked Gloria to explain. She moved around behind the bench. The officer whose hat she had taken off tried to stop her and force her into the witness chair. She slapped at him. He backed away. The judge, smiling, permitted her to march through the clerk's gate and back to his own desk. Pierpont confronted her, and she paused to straighten her hat and kiss him. Then she shook hands with the gasping judge, drew up a chair, and sat down to explain while the police man and the prisoners gaped at her. Gloria told her story, rising now and then to point to Choey and the other thuors. The iudcre tried to keen his face straight as she denounced Choey and described his treatment of her and Doctor Royce. Judge Freeman calmed Gloria and spoke : "Miss Gloria, what does your honor wish to have done to this man7" ' I think Doctor Royce has done enough to him. Better let them all off." This was an unexpectedly popular suggestion. The judge, pondered. The prisoners pushed forward appeal ingly. The judge smiled and ordered everybody discharged. They broke into loud cheers. The judge banged his desk with the gavel. The officers cleared the-court, pushing the whole crowd out by tBe spectators' gate. Doctor Royce was called up to the bench. Pierpont shook his head over Gloria and was cold to Royce. Gloria spoke: "Don't blame Doctor Royce. If it hadn't been for him heaven knows what would have be come of me. It's all your fault, judge, for letting that murderer off. I near ly got him, and I'll get him yet. I've got new reasons to go after him." Pierpont was too tired to ay any thing but "Let's go home," or to do anything else. (TO BE CONTINUED) fill th poiltlon of asatttant ciutodlan and head Janitor, a poult ion left vacant by the death of Boone Kelly a few weeka ago. Speak al .Ufler MethodUt CharrhI J. Copenharve. president of the Trades Unionist Anti-Boose Learue of Nebraska, will occupy the pulpit at Lefler Methodist church at Albright Sunday to speak on the liquor ques tion. Worklngman Injured by Fall JamB Dlckerson, a carpenter, fell from a second story window at one of the lower Douglas street lodalna houses and fractured his col larbone. He was taken to the St. Joseph's j hospital, Rastarnera to Stop Hen A party of 100 I eastern tourists, traveling on a special train, i will pus through Omaha Sunday en route I to Yellowstone National pare,. They will be here thirty minutes during the after noon, Ooea to Em tea Park I. R. Lines, assistant secretary of the Young Mm's Christian na soelatlon, haa gone to Kstes Park, Colo., where he will spend his vacation with a physical culture class In the association summer school there. Swipe Watermelon- Levi Ooodehaw and B. Batey evidently believe In paying good prices for their refresnments, as each nan taxed it and coats in ponce court ror taaing two watermelons from a railroad car at Ninth and Jackson streets. Munlcloal Band Concerts Municipal band concerts will be given Sunday afternoon at Han scorn and Elm wood parks. It will be the first concert to be held in Eimwooa. Tha music will start at !:.0 p. m. later eating programs have been arranged for both oonceria, Hastings & Heyden Report Sales in Benson Gardens Hastings & Heyden report the sale of the following tracts in Benson Gardens: Archie L. Raller purchaaed tract No. Be, conelatlng ot one acre and a bungalow, for l, ISO. Nina If. Hartoll purchaaed lot II. block l.. ror eseo. William A. Strlmpla purchaaed traot No. 101 for II. US. Pranota W. Blalop purchaaed traot No. II tor l00. Howard P. HMlop purchaaed traot No, IS tor i;is. Oeorge Donahue purchaaed lota I and II, block I. tor 11.171. Anton Xublllua purchaaed traot No. Ill tar Ilea. Wlllard V. Chaaa purchaaed tract Noa. lit ana 27t ror uu. Dora E. Plcuca purchaaed four half-acre I raola Noa. lei, lit, lit and 171 fur 11.760. American Express Riding Red Cross, Special instructions received from the executive offices at New York by local agent, V. S. Warner, indi cate that the American Express com pany, together with connecting ex press companies, has thrown open its entire organization to the aid of the American Red Cross in getting mili tary relief supplies to the Mexican border.. As the various chapters of the Red Cross organization collect and receive supplies, they will forward them to their concentrating depots, which -have been established at the railroad centers: New York City- Cincinnati, Chicago, Kansas City, Denver and San Francisco. There the supplies will be assorted. There the supplies packed, if necessary, for further ship ment to the distributing depots in Douglas, Ariz.; El Paso and San An tonio, Tex. From these distributing depots final distribution will be made to the troops at the front. The American Express company is rendering further assistance by hav ing its 10,000 employes all over the country give prominent display to the Red Cross placard soliciting contri butions of supplies, and designating just what character of matter can be used to advantage. train Kllla Three. Fairmont, Minn., July M Martin Smith, a farmer near here, and two harveat hande, whom he had employed late today, were In atantly killed tonight when a Milwaukee paaeenger train etruck the farmer'a auto mobile at a grade croaeing a few mllea from, Fairmont. . Brttlah Win In Africa. London, July S3. British troopa operat ing tn the eaitern section of (ierinan Kaat Africa have occupied lluhesa and Amlnl and have captured he whole of the rjaanbara railway, according to an of ficial announcement made hero today. 621 residents of Nebraska registered at Hotel Astor during the past year. 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