The Twin Falls times. [volume] (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1905-1916, 1916-08-31

IMITATION. Preparedness was Mulrys
motto.
Gloria studied him a moment. This
was the partner of her murdered
lover. He was too amiable of mien
to be accusable of such a crime. She
acquitted him of wishing to do away
with Freneau. In fact, the papers
said that Freneau's death had nearly
wrecked the firm. Mulry did not look
bankrupt. Gloria did not know that
her father had given a large sum of
money to Freneau a few days before
his death and that Murly was living
on that.
There was a shifty fippancy in
Mulry's eyes and manner that made
Gloria distrust him. She felt little
added distrust of her dead lover for
having such a man as a partner. The
hateful proverb about birds of
feather ran through her mind like a
tune In any case, here at last was
the man she sought, and she was i'm
patient to question him. There were
too many people on the crest of the
hill to permit of conversation there.
So she dared him to a toboggan ride.
He accepted. She got aboard and
he steered. They swooped like de-
scendlng airship. But at the foot Of
the hill the toboggan careened and
slid them deep into the drift before it
capsized.
Mulry, for all his bulk, was agile
and he was soon helping Gloria to her
feet.
"Thank you a million times, Mr..
Mulry," she said. you saved me from
drowning in the snow"
He beamed and congratulated him
self on making such success with this
pretty creature. He had not recog-
nized her. He had seen photographs
of her in Freneau's possession and he
had seen her at the opera. But she
was disguised to him now by her
close-htting cap, her rough sports suit
and, most of all, by her coquettish
smiles. Suddenly he had to leap for
his lie to escape another scooting to-
boggan. On it were David and Lois
and young man from the same house
party of which Mulry was a member.
"Hurt yourself, Gloria?" David
sang out.
did you get hurt, Miss Stafford?'
the other young man cried.
Gloria shook her head and called
after them, not noticing that Mulry's
eyes were popping and his jaw droop-
ing. He had pieced the name to-
= gether. GLORIA Staffordw He had
come up here to escape her and he
81 had just coasted down the hill with
her, and she knew his name He re
I membered Doctor Royce's warning of
2 the danger of meeting Gloria face to
face.
b. He pretended to be suddenly i'll. He
8 begged Gloria's pardon and said thai
r he must go home. He was too big fol
= Gloria to hold and she could not ruI
e after him without attracting aUten
ticn. She stood bewildered while h,
D got away.
Later she telephoned to his hos
j. and asked to speak to him. Sh'
learned that he had just taken mo
tor to the train.
, Gloria forgot her suspicious of Loi
| in her newer suspicious of this mai
| Mulry. He was evidently runnin
! away from her. Therefore she mus
| pursue him. His flight was evidenc
| Of some mysterious guilt.
| Gloria cut short her visit to tn
! country and announced her intentio
| Of going back to town at once. He
4 father and her brother were used
i her whims and did not oppose thel
A nowadays out of pity for her.
/. The next morning Gloria made al
i other journey to Mulrys Office. 81
!, went early within business hours. I'll
al stenographer told her that Mr.. Null
4. had gone to Palm Beach the night b
fore with a rich client who had i
!. vited him to be his guest.
& Gloria was furious at this new G
. cape. She pondered it all the VIZ
home. When she saw her father s.
told him that he was not looking
III all well he needed some golf and su
q bathing He ought to go to Pal
u Beach He accepted the suggests
n heartily. He was more than Will
to undertake the golf and he W
eager to get Gloria out of the regi
a of her sorrow. He was so wOrri
over her swift alienation of gloC
Gu and gayety that he invited Doct
Royce to came along as a member
lis. the family party. He did rot have
ter ask Royce twice.
Gloria had not been to Florida d.
of ing the last five years. To her it W
an not so much a flight from her roman
90 as return to its birthplace. 1t was
tut Palm Beach that she had met her ia
lily 1t was there that she had made
girllsh escapade in David's racing c
at and wrecked it in the everglades.
the was there that she had wandered il
yn. the heart of the wilderness and il
as, the heart of the young Seminole Oh
he who would have forced her to be
-ch sQuaw, if her brave Freneau had