The Twin Falls times. [volume] (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1905-1916, 1916-08-15


usual fever, but with her newly awak.
ened sense of romance she attributed
the condition to Glorias probable dis
inclination to parting with her lover.
For Freneau had told her that he
must leave town on business for
whole week, When he came to bid
farewell the nurse left the room, re-
turning when Freneau had gone. He
left Gloria in lonely gloom.
Gloria was fretful and restless. COM
planning that she did not feel ready
for sleep. 1t was the nurse who was
drowsy after the long strain of
Gloria's illness.
Richards put out all the lights save
the one shaded lamp by the bedside,
and then she must have dozed, for the
next thing she knew was that her ears
were throbbing and her nerves jang
ling with the wild clamor of Gloria's
screams.
For an instant the nurse was too
Mortified to move, then as her wits
returned to her the fact that the voice
was Glorias penetrated to her con.
seriousness. Gloria, indeed, was tug
ging at her and crying to her inco-
herently Then she tainted as her
father rushed in in his dressing gown
He and Miss Richards lifted the girls
body to the bed. Then Richards
reached for the telephone to call Doc
tor Royce, blaming herself bitterly
the while for having slept at her post.
Doctor Royce was not at home. His
secretary promised to send him the
moment he returned. The nurse did
what she could.
Turning to the bed she was clutched
by the cropping hands of Gloria. She
heard her cry:
Save him, save him, father; they've
murdered him. Let me go to him
Oh, Dick, Dick"
Richards held the frantic girl tight
in her arms and tried to soothe her
as she struggled to rise from the bed
again. But the eyes that looked into
hers were almost those of a maniac,
and the nurse signed to the distracted
father to help her. Gloria was shrek
ing now as she found renewed
strength:
There, there, look Look down by
the steps of the monument Dick is
lying there. l tell you they've killed
him. Oh, my God, why don't you go
to him instead of holding me here?"
With one supreme effort she
wrenched herself free from the two,
only to be mercifully seized with an.
other fainting spell. Swooning for.
ward, her face would have been
dashed against the footboard of her
bed had not Richards recaptured her
in her arms. At last Doctor Royce
appeared in the doorway. His foot
struck the binoculars, which still lay
on the floor where they had fallen
from Gloria's hand. He started back
from them, looked towards the pros.
trate Gloria, and, STOPPING swiftly
thrust the glasses into his pocket with
what sounded to Richards much like
an oath. Then he came forward to
Gloria, taking her from her fathers
arms.
Gloria opened her eyes again and
stared into the Doctors own with an
other cutlery:
You will believe me and go to him
won't your"
Reason seemed to return to hel
now, and her eyes were overfowine
with tears. Her father had to turn
his own away, for Gloria's made him
think of child torn from its mother
and beaten and pleading. When Doc
tor Royce spoke his voice was hoarst
with emotion:
Gloria. you know that l would give
my life to spare you any pain or tc
do you any service, but remember
that you are still very i'll, that any
further excitement might be fatal t
you. You have a high fever and are
not yourself. You are a very sicl
child. Tell me what is troubling yot
and what frightened you and l will dc
anything / can to help you"
Gloria seemed to be holding hersel
under extreme control as il to con
vince them OF her sanity.
"Oh, Stephen, you must believe.
tell you saw it all-from = window
here. But there is no { lose
You must go to him. D .eneal
is dead Murderedl his body IL
down there at the base OF the monu
ment.
Miss Richards was sleeping.
couldn't. l looked through my glasse
on the drive. l turned them towards
the monument. l saw man in eve
ming dress lettering about. l couldn'
see his face. He seemed to be wait
ing for someone. A policeman wen
by. The man stepped behind the mon
ument till the officer had gone. Thel
he came out again. He took a reyol
yer from his pocket. Then he walked
away as a tramp came along.
Il saw the tramp-a slouching crea
ture with a hideous face--a face
shall never forget. l saw II plainl.
under the light of the lamps as h
| dropped On a bench. But l though