Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1913-12-25

cry.
Gloria tried to gather herself to-
gether 10 meet this new attack. but
without much success. She felt so
weak from the shock that she was only
able TO rise from her chair with diff
Guilty.
You're out Of your head. You're
mad. Keep still. I 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
quivering was too soul-satisfying
Realizing that if she admitted Gloria
was the daughter of David Kerr the
men would forego their pursuit of
Wright, Little Ella knew her best
course was 10 deny the relationship.
Don't you go, Turkey" she yelled.
I'll tell you the truth" She turned
to Gloria Il wisht the boss had a
daughter, did Pits a lie. Turkey.
She's not Dave Kerr's girl He'd laugh
to see a daughter O. his in such
hell-hole Id watch her to see that
she paid the price" she glanced at
Gloria inadvertently, ''if-if he had
daughter. An yer pertectin' the man
you loyei" she Knocked. Wen sec
how the boss daughter loves"
far,y-JhIa on
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 u lost
woman. Gloria was suffering, she
could see, but there was still another
chord which would yibrate to misery.
Since time began jealousy has been
a flaming sword in the hands of an
unscrupulous antagonist who knows
how to use it. To make Gloria think
that she was defending a man 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 if he'd loved you? Never
You don know why he come here, but
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 she had
just hurled at the daughter OF the
boss. Gradually, bit by bit, the veneer
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 were 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 nei"
That's what you say. but down in
your heart you know it's the truth
II 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 were forgotten in this duel
so elemental that it 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
death itself.
Every word you utter is a lie," Clio
ria blazed. IF 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 focls
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. l 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 step
woman, IF you dare to speak. a"
Little Ella was not to be inundated
When she dragged him in 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
himself, never dreaming that his own
daughter would be caught in it. When
the fight on the Interurban Railway
had first started, at command of the
boss, Jack Durken, q ward heeler, ap-
parently had gone over to the enemy.
The man had found employment in
the circulation department of the
News. and soon afterward the infor-
nation reached Wright that one Of his
own employees was a former hencnman
of the notorious first ward leader.
Mike Noonan. Durken was loud in
his denunciations OF David Kerr and
Ills lOltONStS, anu tSpHSNNA W "AAAAA4SS ~
betray whatever he knew of the meth
DDS of the gang.
The editor found him a fountain of
information regarding the shady poll
tics of Belmont In reality Durken told
only what David Kerr ordered him to
tell. Wishing to establish Weights
confidence IN the man, Kerr had him
disclose many things of slight impor-
lance that were absolutely authentic.
One OF the charges continuously
eyes dilated with her look of hate.
Then they narrowed to cruel Sits,
while a tremor ran through her body,
One who knew the girl would scarcely
have recognized her. Like some 1.-the
creature of the jungle waiting for the
kill. she seemed to crouch for the
spring. Just as the woman was about
she suffered every i'll in the long sick
sick list, and was continually calling
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