Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1913-12-12
The AUGHTERQ Of
DAVID KERR ste
BY Harry Kir5 1OOtle /
Illustrations BY HAI W6I1=es %
coPYRIcM eY A.c. NecLuRo 8 CO. I9N

hhN HN woo uoAbhN'h
daughterl"
The last words she uttered in
piercing tones horrible TO hear as she
swayed back and forth. keeping time
with her body to the cadence OF her
cry.
Gloria tried to gather herself to-
gether to meet this new attack, but
without much uccess She felt 80
weak from the shock that she was only
able to rise from her chair with difh.
Guilty.
You're out of your head. You're
mad. Keep still. | tell you" The
men still standing %irresolute. she
turned upon them. why are you
standing there? Leave this room"
Little Ella was enjoying herself
hugely. Gloria's every pleading tone
was music in her ears. Her eyes
burned with excitement. Yet the cruel
cat delayed to crush the mouse. It's
quiverlng WIS too soul-satisfying.
Realizing that II she admitted Gloria
was the daughter OF David Kerr the
men would forego their pursuit Of
Wright. Little Ella knew her best
course was to deny the relationship.
Don't you go. Turkey" she yelled.
"Tll tell you the truth" She turned
to Gloria. 81 wisht the boss had a
daughter, did FITS a lie. Turkey.
She's not Dave Kerr's girl. He'd laugh
to see a daughter o. his in such a
hell-hole. I'd watch her to see that
she paid the price," she glanced at
Gloria m~alevolently, tiff he had a
daughter. An yer pertectln' the man
you love!" she Knocked. wei see
how the boss daughter loves"
Her laughter was terrible. The men
could not think her the same woman
they knew. Gloria started in alarm.
She felt the woman was mad. and did
not know what she might do.
What are you going to do" she
asked.
Now Ella was sneering at her. She
knew how to choose knife-blades for
words. In everything she said was
the cunning and the cruelty of a lost
woman. Gloria was suffering. she
could see, but there was still another
chord which would vibrate to misery
Since time began jealousy has been
a flaming sword in the hands Of an
INSCRIPTIONS antagonist who knows
how to use it. TO make Gloria think
that she was defending a mar untrue
to her, was something. TO make her
believe that she had been defeated by
the greater charm Of Little Ella her
self, was far more.
DO you think I'd "a let you hid
that man II he'd loved you? Never.
You don know why he come here, but
I do. He come to see me. He loves
me-"
She beat her breasts as she spoke
to emphasize her words and her eyes
sparkled with the challenge sho had
just hurled at the daughter of the
boss. Gradually. bit by bit, the m
of civilization had been clipped away.
Gloria no longer saw the gulf that sep
arated them. She knew only that by
.cozening words this other woman was
trying to make her think she had been
robbed of her own. Her weakness
left her. Now when she summoned all
her strength, she joyed to find it did
not fail. AS Little Ella proclaimed
that the man they we're hiding had
come to see her, Gloria sprang to the
side of the bed, and cried with all the
indignation of an overweight soul:
You lie!"
That's what you say, but down In
your heart you know it's the truth.
1t amt the first time he's been here.
Oh. he's told me about you, the boss
daughter; but It's me he loves"
The men we're forgotten In this duel
so elemental that 1t could have had
the stone age for its setting. On one
side. hate as bitter as the grave; on
the other, love and faith stronger than
utdIH lloCll.
Every word you utter Is a lie" Clio
ria blazed. III you loved him you
wouldn't have called these cutthroats."
why don you tell EN- yer the boss
daughter now?" tainted the other.
Look here, Ella" Ryan broke in.
we're tired O. standin' here like fools.
Quit yer gassin' an make good
You'll git yours all right. She's
not David Kerr's daughter. Don you
let her bluff you. | know where she
hid i'm, I'll tell you where he is"
Gloria turned upon the men.
I've told you the truth, and I've
warned you. Don't you come a step
closer" Then she threatened the
woman, If you dare to speak a"
Little Ella was not to be intimidated.
"When she dragged him an" she be-
gan, she locked the door, an then
She"
Gloria was standing at no great dis.
lance from the bed when Little Ella
began her betrayal Of Wright's hiding
! place. AS she realized that In an
! instant the secret would be out, her