THE BEE i OMAHA, MONDAY, AUGUST W 191
Gloria
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By Mi and Mrs.
Rupert Hughes
A Modern Pirate
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Copyright, me. by Adelaide M. Hugh.
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SIXTEENTH INSTALLMENT.
People who raise children are ture
of a life of turprises. 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. ,-',
When Gloria saw the captain of
the tug had noticed the slight detail
of the parted hawser and the loat
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 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 Gloria wanted to
meet them. She had never met any
tugmen and she felt no ambition to
get 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: "Traslc" or
"Oh, Jed!"
At length Gloria decided that she
was not needed any longer. She
had noted the tittle boat bobbing
along alter the barge and she felt
that she might at well1 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 fiend of a Trask. He had
planned to kill her before she tied
him up. He would certainly do no
less now that he had escaped. Jed
' had evidently picked himself up from
the rocking chair trap, untied Trask,
and unmuffled ,Nell. The three had
' been pounding and howling for some
time. The hatch held for a while,
but they were going it it now with
something as heavy at a battering
ram. It would yield soon surely and
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
t wishing 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 ot the barge
and dropped into the skiff. Her aim
was not very accurate and the river
nearly got her. But she sat down
quickly and steadied herself and the
boat She began to ply the oart with j
great eagerness, but little progress.
At length the. noticed that the
had forgotten to cast off. She ran:
to the bow and had to untie the
painter. The wet lenott were torture
to her delicate hands, but at last
the was free and the boat fell away
from the barge. The river was dark
and menacing, and its current was
like tome Invisible genie dragging
the skiff away to its lair. Still, when
Gloria saw the tug come alongside
the barge and make fast, and taw
Trask, Jed and Nell dash up the
companionway . and meet . the tug
hands on the deck, sha-felt that the
current would be kinder to her than
the men would have been. ,
What explanation Trask and Jed
made she could not imagine. Evi
dently it was not a good one, for the
crew from the tugboat gesticulated
violently and it looked as if there
would be a big fight Gloria hoped
that they all would throw one another
overboafd. - ,.."vw .
The tugboat crew went back to
(heir quarters. Trask ran back to
stare at Gloria. He shook his fist at
her and she rowed faster. But the
barge moved northward, following
the puffing tug. ' . ' ' i '
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her escape. Then she realised that
after all Trask had also escaped. She
was so angry at the cancellation of
her success that the started to row
back after the barge. What she would
have done had she overtaken it she
did not stop to think. The current
prevented the possibility of knowing.
The Hudson streaming into the sea
carried Gloria with it in spite-of all
' her efforts at the oars. She gave up
at length and devoted all her energies
to rowing ashore. The nearer shore
was the farther for her, t because a
landing on the West bank would com
pel a Jengthy roundabout to fetch her
to her home on the east bank, '
She rowed for the New York shore
. and crept toward it slowly, though
the boat turned southerly so fast that
she feared to be swept on down to the
city's crowded water pavements. It
was lonely out there on the dark
river Her arms ached with fatigue, J
her silken hands were pouching with
blister.
Finally the felt the keel grate and
ahe landed on a rocky point She far
: got the little dinghey and it slipped
back and danced on down the river
to tome unknown fate. Gloria felt bet
ter on firm earth and she grew angry
again. She stared at the barge, now a
mere smndge on the vague horiion. !
She whispered to herself: ''I'll, get
. him yet and he won't get away I" .
Gloria thought of her father's yacht
She believed it had been recently put
into commission. If only she had it
dowI But it wat loafing at anchor in
- the river at her father's country home,
the last she had heard of it.
To get a yacht! That wat her small
requirement now. She must get home
to get it She plunged along till , she
came to a lonely road. After a time a
farmer appeared driving a wsgonload
of empty milk cans. Gloria envied him
his throne on the high seat He was
the rich one now and she the pauper.
He called out: "Have I lift, miss?
How fur ye goin'?"
"I'm going at far as you'll take me,
please," ' .
"Get in, then, miss, and we'll jog
along." , "
The farmer was naturally anxious
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GLORIA WENT ALOFT TO WATCH THE BARGE.
to know , what errand his guest was
on, but she did not exchange in for
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, t ' ' ' '
: Gloria trudged till she wat worn
out. ; All the! motors the taw teemed
to'be going the wrong way. When
finally she' heard one coming behind
her she wat . so delighted ..that ' she
turned and held out her hands. She
wanted to embrace the driver for be-
ins so kind as to be going her way.
Anybody looks well coming to a
rescue, but the ' young man driving
the southbound automobile was too
mod looking; for his own comfort or
anyone else's. He accepted Gloria at
a passenger wttn more eninusiasm
than she relished. He jumped to the
ground, lifted his hat, assisted Gloria
into the front seat, and took his place
beside her. He shot the car forward
with a twagger and his compliments
began to puff out of him. Gloria en
dured, a number of his flatteries be
cause she needed his motor, but she
grew angrier and angrier, and when
he began to call her "Cutie" she de
cided that his usefulness had ceased
to exist, i One of the twain simply
had to get out and walk. Gloria was
lure that it wat not to be herself.
She plotted carefully how to throw
tnii new skipper overboard, ine vie
L tlm helped her to an idea by leaning
Close ro ncr ina murmuring. jtmu
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or cojj, uuuc, nunr ,
"Very, laid Olona, foaming at hit
impudence. .
"We make a great team, huh?"
"Great," said Gloria...
"Atta girl," said the youth and
slid his left arm arounrV her.
, Gloiia laughed harshly and some
how managed to knock the hat off her
wooer's head. ' The wind whipped it
oacK ana tn driver snut ott tne en
gine and threw on - hit emergency
brake. ; -
. "So lorry," laid Gloria, smiling in
tne dark. - - - - ' ,
. "At'i all right, Cutie," said .the
vounir man. Back in a minute.
He ilid from hit place and ran back
along the road for hit hat. Gloria
had been studying hit methods of run
ning the car and comparing it with
her own-.' At soon at the driver
started back Gloria pressed the self
starter button and put the car into
motion. - . : '. . '.
The man heard the engine sputter
and he yelled,- "Hey!" thinking the
gasoline to blame. He was sure that
he had forgotten to stop his engine
and he was afraid that the car wat
running away with its Drettv oas-
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
mil and the hand Olona waved in
farewell reassured him as to her
safety, but filled him with disgust and
with' fear that she were some new
type of automobile thief. ....
, liloria s conscience was clear. The
young impertinent had ' earned his
punishment . The walk would do him
good. She would restore his car to
im by huntiag up the owner of its
number, when she had time. If
necessary 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
home, v . i.
As she ran in throuih the sratea ah
almost collided with her father's car.
The piercing searchlight blinded her
until he heard her voice from behind
it He welcomed her to his arms and
was so glad to have her safely there
again that it was several minutes bo-
tore he began to tcold her. - -
ahe asked him to hush. nl,ir-
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 aeveritv
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 ready as soon as she had
had her long-delayed dinner.
Doctor Koyce and ludiro Freeman
were at the house. They tat with
Gloria while the told them of her
adventures as the ate a hastily reas
sembled dinner. She said to Doctor
Koyce: "1 am surprised. SteDhen. at
your leaving me alone by myself to
solve my new problems. Of course,
you didn't know where I wat going,
Y
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 int6
so much danger with so few re
sources. . ' . V
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. i
"Then you will come along and
help me to capture the' man who killed
my beloved Dick?"'
.. All right, captain," said Royce
with a plucky smile, though her at
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 mutt not permit this, Pier
pont," he protested, anxiously. "Yoar
daughter hat no 'legal right to arrest
the man Trask. If the should cap
ture his the would have to turn him
over to the authorities and ihe would
have to face a public explanation."
Gloria retorted with vigor: "You
had him, judge,and you laid 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 whv?"
Judge Freeman looked away guilty.
In eyes turned to Pierpont and his
answer wat to mm 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 true," said Pierpont. l "It't
all off, Gloria." '
"No, it isn't!" Gloria cried. "If
you don't help me to catch that fiend
I'll get the police after him."
"What police?" Pierpont laughed.
"Tht local chief? He couldn't cap
ture a snail." r . . , .
"The man it out of his jurisdiction,
anyway," said the judge. "It would
be quite a complicated process getting
the fellow arrested and he would
probably be hard to find." .
"My way is a very simple way
said Gloria. "Instead of sending, got
That's a good motto. But the judge
wilt 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
realise that I acted for your peace
of wind." , ;.
"My peace of mind depends on cap
turing that man I" Gloria Replied
curtly, "and anybody that wantt to
cm come along now." , ' .
. Royce saluted and waited for
orders. Pierpont decided to go.
Judge 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 moonlurlit and. the sailors
coming handsomely alongside. , .
It wat iplendid to feel the deck
underfoot. Gloria chuckled at the
contrast between the yacht and the
canal boat . She rejoiced in . the
famous speed of the engines and she
could imagine the prow slicing the
waves 'in pursuit of . the lumbering,
barge. She was on a racehorse and'
she was chasing an vox. But race
horses are delicate giants and to are
race cart and racing yachts. This
sea rover declined to rove. There
was engine trouble in the works and
the caolain would not hud? for
erafliours. Gloria was bitterly dis
appointed and completely baffled.
its tne old story of the tortoise
and the hare," Ihe grumbled. "While
we are sleeping here the barge is
moving along every moment We'll
never find it It'll get away for keeps
this time." - '
' Never despair, said Rove, stu
pidly. , .1 ;
Uon 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. Her father came to urge her
to go to her berth, but she refused
to stir. ", ',.'' .
"You'd better sell this old tub and
buy a motor boat," she said. V ; .; ,
Later Gloria was half awakened by
a little chill.". She was too cold to
say where she was and too drowsy
to move. ; She. saw a shadowy figure
tiptoeing up. She 1 knew that a
steamer mar was erentlv laid over her.
Half a-dream, she murmured, "Thank
you, Stephen." .
She did not know whether he heard
or not. ' i
When she awoke the yacht was re.
deeming its lost reputation. It was
hastening up the river at a splendid
gait. The sun was just crossing the
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 had finished her
breakfast a tug, towing a barge, was
sighted on the northern edge of the
water. Gloria went to the pilot house
to stimulate the pursuit. She had
greatun calling down the tube to
he engineer to go as-fast- as pos
sible, and then still faster, ahe tried
to hurry the pilot, too, but he ex
plained that he could not increase
the soeed 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 sie 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
left the pilot house and went 'for
ward to make sure. She recognized
him and he -recognized her. She
called . to him 1 to' surrender. He
laughed. Then she saw that he had
a rifle in his hand, w y
Trask had "been mystified beyond
endurance by the whole transaction.
He had left freneau s body m tne
moonlit snows in front 6f 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 frantic with
anxiety by the silence pf the journals.
He had begun almost . to 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 Freneau's body had been
found in the lower bay, miles below
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 teemed
safe for him to return to his" business
as bargeman, yet he had no sooner
entered his own cabin than a strange
girl appeared, unexplained, an
charged him with the murder; She
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avowed, in fact, that she had teen
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 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 yacnt 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 hit eyes on the yacht
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. v
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 I
(To Be Continued.)
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