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GLORIA'S ROMANCE
(Oonttatud from U«t la sue.)
<CHAPTER XVI. CONTINUED.)
She rowed for the New York shore
and crept toward it slowly, though the
boat turned southerly so fasi that sne
feared to be syept on down to the
city's crowded water pavements. It was
lonely out there on the dark river. Her
arms ached with fatigue, her silken
hands were pouching with blisters.
Finally she felt the keel grate and
she landed on a rocky point. She for
got the little dinghey and it slipped
back and danced on down the river tu
some unknown fate. Gloria felt better
on the firm earth and she grew angry
again. She stared at the barge, now a
mere smudge on the vague horizon.
She whispered to herself: ‘•I'll get
him yet, and he won't get away!”
Gloria thought of her / father's
yacht. She believed tahf it haa
i»een recently put into commis
sion. If only she had it now! But it
was loafing at anchor in the river at
her father's country home, the last she
had heard of ft.
To get a yacht! That was 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 wagon load
of empty milk cans. Gloria envied him
his throne on the high seat. He was
the rich one now ano she the pauper.
He called: “Have a lift, miss? How fur
ye goinT'
"I'm going as far as you'll take me.
please.”
"Get in. then, miss, and well jog
along.'
The farmer was naturally anxious to
know what errand his guest was on. but
she did not exchange information for
hospitality She grew so impatient for
faster progress that when the fanner
came to his own lane and turned into
it she was glad to get down and walk
Gloria trudged till she was worn out.
Ali the motors she saw seemed to be
going the wrong way. When finally she
heard one coming behind her she was
so delighted that she turned and held
out her hands. She wanted to embrace
the driver for being so kind as to be
going her way.
Anybody looks well coming to a res
cue. but the young man driving the
southbound automobile was too good
looking for his u<n comfort or any
one else'a He accepted Gloria as a pas
senger with more enthusiasm than she
relished. He jumped to the grougd.
lifted his hat. assisted Gloria into the
front seat, and took his place beside her.
He shot the car forward with a swagger
and his compliments began to puff out
of him. Gloria endured a number of
his flatteries because she needed his
motor, but she grew angrier and an
grier. and when he began to call her
"Cutie” she decided that his usefulness
had ceased to exist. t>ne of the twain
simply had to get out and walk. Glori-t
was sure that it was not to be herself.
She plotted carefully how to throw this
rew skipper overboard. The victim
helped her to an idea by leaning close io
her and murmurirfg. “Kind of cozy.
Cutie, huh?”
"Very.” said Gloria, foaming at his
impudence.
"We make a great team, huh?”
‘Great." said Gloria.
■■AJI* girl,” said the youth and slid
his left arm around her.
Gloria laughed harshly and somt
how • managed to knock the nat
off her wooer's head. The wind
whipped it back and the driver shut oft
'.he engine and threw on his emergency
brake.
“So sorry.” said Gloiia. smiling in the
dark.
“Ass all right. Cutie.” said the young
tnan. “Back in a minute.”
He slid from his place and ran back
along the ~oad for his hat. Gloria had
I een studying his methods of running
the car and comparing it with her own.
As soon as 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 was running away
with its pretty passenger. He ran after
|t. forgetting his hat in his alarm, lest
Gloria be dashed to pieces on the side:
of the road. The clean way the carl
leaped across the hill and the hand
Gloria waved in farewell reassured nim
ks to her safety, but filled him with
disgust and with fear that she were
teme new type of automobile thief.
Gloria's conscience was clear. The
young impertinent had -.med his pun
ishment. The walk would do him good.
Khe would restore his car to him by
liunting up the owner of its number wnen
she had time. If necessary her father
tould buy the car. It was a nice car.
Fhe loved its appetite for miles and fed
It well. And finally it brought her back
to her home
As she ran in through the gates she
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 mlnutec before
he began to scold her.
She asked him to hush, please, as
»-he had no time to waste and rhe wanted
to borrow his yacht and Its entire trew
for awhile. Pierpont refused the loan
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with all the severity of a bank presi
dent. but Gloria calmly sent for the sail
ing ma-ter and in the presence of her
father gave him orders to be ready as
scon as she had had her long delayed
’ dinner.
Ibf. Royce and Judge Freeman were
at the house. They sat with Gloria
while she told them of her adventures
as she ate a hastily reassembled din
ner. She said to Dr. Royce: “I am sur
prised. Stephen, at your leaving me
alone by myself to solve my new prob
lems. Os course, you didn't know where
I was going, but you usually manage
to arrive in the knick of time. You
ought to have been there.”
“1 wish I had been there." Royc«> re
plied. His heart ached at the sigh' of
her beauty and at the adventurous spirit
which sent her tender body into sc
much danger with so few resources.
“1 won't let you quit my sight again
Gloria.” he said and stared with such
idolatry that she felt a little afraiJ
that he was loving her too well.
"Then you will come along and help
me to capture the man who ~illed my
beloved Dick?"
“All right, captain." said Royce with
a plucky smile, though her aiiujion to
Freneau cut him to the quick.
Judge Freeman seemed to he agitated
by the clan Gloria outlined for the
pursuit and capture of Trask. “You
must not permit this. Pierpont." he pro
tested. anxiously. "Your daughter has
no legal right to arrest the man Trask.
If she should capture hint she wout.v
have to turn him over to the authorities
and she would have to face a public ex
planation.”
Gloria retorted with vigor: “You had
him. judge, and you said 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 why?"
Judge Freeman looked away guilty.
His eyes turned to Pierpont and his
answer was to him and not to Gloria.
“You must realize, Pierpont, that such
a cruise is no place for a gtrl of Gloria’s
position and breeding."
“That's true,” said Pierpont. “It's 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.
“The local chief? He couldn't capture
a snail."
“The man is out of his jurisdiction,
anyway," said the judge. “It would be
quite a * complicated process getting
the fellow arrested and he would prob
ably be hard to find.”
“My way is a very simple way." said
Gloria. “Instead of the sending, go'
That’s a good motto. But the judge will
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 real
ize that I acted for your peace of mind.”
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 flashing
in the moonlight and the sailors coming
handsomely alongside.
It was splendid to feel the deck under
foot. 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 lum
bering barge. She was on a race horse
and she was chasing an ox. But race
horses are delicate giants and so are
race cars and racing yachts. This sea
rover declined to rove. There was en
gine trouble in the works and the cap
tain brought the hateful news that the
yacht could not budge for several hours.
Gloria was bitterly disappointed and
completely baffled.
“It’s the old story of the tortoise and
the hare.” she 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 Royce stupidly.
“Don’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.
Judge Freeman looked away guilty.
His eyes turned to Pierpont and
his answef'was to him 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. “It’s 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.
"The local chief? He couldn't capture
a snail.” *
“The man is out of his jurisdiction,
anyway." said the judge. “It would be
quite a complicated process getting
the fellow arrested and he would prob
ably be hard to find.”
“My way is a very simple way,” said
Gloria. “Instead of the sending, go!
That's a good motto. But the judge will
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 real
ize that I acted for your peace of mind.”
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 flashing
In the moonlight and the sailors coming
handsomely alongside-
It was splendid to feel the deck under
foot. 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 tn pursuit of the lum
bering barge. She was on a race horse
and she was chasing an ox. But race
horses ere delicate giants and so are
race cars and racing yachts. This sea
rover declined to rove. There was en
gine trouble in the works and the can
tata brought the hateful news that the
yacht could not budge for several hours.
Gloria was bitterly disappointed and
completely baffled.
“It’s the old story of the tortoise and
the hare.” she grumbled. “While we are
sleeping here the harge is moving along
every moment. We'll never find it. It’ll
get away for keeps this time."
“Never despair.” said Royce stupidly.
“Don’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. Tn 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.
CHAPTER XVII.
Shots that are fired from guns do
not often hit the the people they are
fired at. The coolest target punc
turer grows excited when hfs target
is a man. and more excited when It is a
woman. Gideon Trask was not an ex
per with the rifle. He had been crazy
enough to take the life of Dick Fre
n«a«t —to wring it out of him with his
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hands. He thought he had escaped de
tection until, with an appalling abrupt
ness, Gloria Stafford—tholigh he did not
know her name—charged him with the
murder and declared that she had seen
him commit it before her very eyes.
He had not been quite crazy enough
or quite wise enough to kill her then
and there when she was alone and at
his mercy. He thought to repear the
consequences of the delay by shooting
her down now that she reappeared with
an armed force at her back. So he
fired at Gloria where she stood in front
of the pilot house demanding his sur
render.
They told Gloria afterwards she was
brave as a veteran and faced the as
sassin coolly. But she told the truth
when she said that she was paralyzed
with fear, so frightened that she could
not even show her fright.
When the muzzle of Trask’s rifle spat
at her, she heard the bullet zing past
her ear. She was already wondering
whether she were dead or alive, whether
the next one would strike where she
heard the first one thwack. The pilot
grunted and mumbled: “He got me!”
She forgot Trask and whirled round
to see the pilot fall across his' own
wheel. The yacht wavered and swerved
in its course. Gloria was the nearest
to the pilot house. She had been a
pupil of the pilot only a few minutes
before. She ran to him, lifted him aside
and seized the wheel by its projecting
spokes, just in time to keep the yacht
from crashing into the barge at full
speed. She made a sharp turn, the
yacht swerved and ground along the
side of the barge. Gloria meanwhile
was alarmed more for the life of the
pilot than her own. She began to call
“Stephen! Doctor Royce!”
But Doctor Royce was too busy to
hear her call. His Immediate interest
was not in a wounded man, but in
wounding a man. When he saw that
Trask was aiming his rifle at Gloria
again, his whole being thrilled with a
ferocity unknown to him before. To
save Gloria from being hurt he would
have massacred a hundred Trasks.
Trask was heavy and his agony
seemed to increase upon him when,
the desperate necessity of swim
ming was over. He fainted the moment
his dripping body was stretched out,
and Dr. Royce had, as it were, to save
his life twice, first to bring him back
from the swoon of pain, and then to
bring him back from the annihilation
of his shattered machinery. ,
Meanwhile, Jed was locked in a fero
cious wrestle with the Captain of J.
Pierpont's yacht, who called the engi
neer to his aid. As the engineer told
Pierpont, "I had to knock him senseless
before 1 could knock any sense Into
him.”
And now Nell Trask, who had turned
from one battle to another, tearing now
at Royce and now at the captain, recov
ered from the stupor with which she
had watched her father’s disaster, and,
leaping over the yacht, knelt by him.
calling to him with wild appeals and
threatening Royce as his slayer.
Gloria came running down from the
upper deck and stood gazing at the re
sult of her work with utter dismay
Trask was crushed and perhaps killed.
Jed was unconscious, and Nell seemed
to have gone out of her mind.
Gloria felt that her head was covered
with blood guilt. The sobs of Nell
were heart-breaking. Gloria forgot all
her resentments against Nell and her
father. She forgot that Nell had kept
her prisoner. She saw only that Nell
was a motherless daughter who saw
her father dying
She caught the girl in her arms, held
her in spite of her resistance, murmur
ing: "Forgive me, you poor child! It’s
all my fault, but we won’t let your fath
er die. Dr. Royce is a splendid physi
cian. He saved my life. He will save
your father’s. You can trust him.”
Nell also forgot all other emotions in
that one necessity for hope. She turned
eyes of prayer on Dr. Royce and beat
him on the shoulder with imploring
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back. It was not Royce, but, doubtless,
nature that brought back Trask to con
sciousness. Royce received the credit
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Trask's eyes opened and his tortured
lips moved.
Nell and Gloria were overjoyed at the
miracle, but Royce was the more alarm
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with fingers searching everywhere and
finding everywhere the hints of broken
bones and internal lacerations. He pre
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for the sake of all three, Trask and
Nell and Gloria.
A bucket of water restored Jed
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caine up yelling, as if the fight
had not been interrupted. They had to
lie him up to keep him from continuing
the war.
It had taken this much time for the
tug boat to round upon its course and
come alongside the barge. The crew
had watched the scrimmage with im
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ready for carnage. They were armed
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itself to meet the onset of these re-en
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Now came the opportunity of Pierpont
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tack roustabouts with blow for blow. He
put up the shield of his pocketbook.
The captain of the tugboat led his little
army forward in a wedge, demanding
with tugboat emphasis:
“What kind of pirates are youse. any
how, and what you beatin’ up the old
man fur? For two cents I'd—”
Pierpont answered:
“That’s what I want to know. What
would you do for two cents?"
“I’d t'row de whole bunch of youse
into de river."
"I see.” said Pierpont. "?nd what
would you charge not to?”
This stumped the captain. He could
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escaped from the jurisdiction of Judge
Freeman. He was probably bound for
Canada. I happened, to have steam up
in my yacht, so I came after him. I'll
take him back and deliver him to the
judge. You take the barke on up the
river ajid deliver It to the consignee.
Is that the agreement?”
“That's the agreement, sir,” said the
captain, "pervidin’ I’m took care of
proper.”
“Would those take care of you?” askefl
Pierpont, holding out two bills.
“What does C stand for?” asked the
captain. “I can only count up to double
“C stands for a hundred,” Pierpont ex
plained.
“Two C*s will just about take care
of me, sir,” said the captain. As soon as
he touched the bill he touched his hat.
called his crew back to the tug and
set forth once more on hs twice inter
rupted cruise. Pierpont ordered Jed re
leased to care for the barge. He asked
Nell to go with him, but she preferred
to stay with her father, at Gloria’s invi
tation.
Nell was sullen with Gloria, but
Gloria was neither surprised nor
resentful. She would have thought
les of Nell if she had been too easily
placated by her father’s persecutors.
Trask was no more responsive to Royce's
ministrations. He was bewildered with
pain and terrified by his captivity. He
was as little grateful as a Hon that has
teen trapped and bound.
To Royce he was doubly a mystery,
both as a patient and as a criminal.
If he were guilty of murdering Frenau.
then his life belonged to tne state, and
It was Royce’s curious duty, as a citi
zen' physician, to save Trask’s life so
that the state might take it.
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Gloria from investigating the murder.
He had Hed to her, knowing that Fre
neau had been killed by spme person
from some motive unknown to him. He
had told Gloria that her account of wit
nessing the murder was only a delir
ium. He had lost her confidence and
her respect, and they were precious to
him. He did not know that Gloria was
tormented by a dual emotion toward him.
one of suspicion and rancor, one of
gratitude and affection. Gloria was
helpless in the quarrel of her emotions.
She euiild neither love nor' hate Royce
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perfectly, neither trust nor distrust him.
While Gloria was at a little distance
Royce was questioning Trask in a low
tene, trying to persuade him to speak
the truth, warning him that he might
not have a long opportunity to unbosom
himself of his crime. But Trask's
mouth, distorted with suffering, W’as
also twisted with a sneer of hate. He
would not even answer Royce’s ques
tions.
Pierpont had drawn Gloria to one side,
and he said: “Well, now that you’ve got
your man, what are you going to do
with him?” ,
“Find out why he killed Dick," Glo
ria said, “and then turn him over to
the police.”
"In spite of all the publicity?” Pier
pont asked.
“Ln spite of all the publicity.” said
Gloria.
Pierpont gave up the fight. He loath
ed the prospect of a newspaper scan
dal, but if it had to come he must brace
himself to endure it. He had done all
that he could legitimately do, and more
than that to thwart the police, and now
the necessities of the law compelled him
to give the law the right of way or sur
fer the consequences. He resolved to
turn Trask over to Judge Freneau as a
representative of the law and let the
judge assume the future responsibility.
When the yacht reached the country
house at length, Pierpont sought for
Judge Freneau. He had left the house.
Pierpont w’ould have sent Trask on after
him, but he was too weak to be moved
further. Besides. Royce was insistent
in giving Trask the full benefit of his
medical and surgical know'ledge, and
asked for a guest room to lodge him in.
Now Trask was stupified indeed. He
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had expected that his enemies wouhi
throw him into a prison cell. And they
had installed him in a luxurious cham
ber in a palace. And his daughter was
established in an adjoining room whose
fittings would have satisfied a princess.
They almost terrified the poor habitant
of a canal boat.
Royce decided to motor into the city
to fetch his surgical instruments and
bring out his assistant. While he was
gone Gloria stole into Trask's room to
question him. but he had passed into a
state between sleep and coma, ajid she
aared not trouble him. She found that
Nell had fallen asleep, too. She felt
that she was on the brink of discov
eries that would mean everything to
her. She was a little afraid of them.
(Continued in Next Issue.)
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