Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1916-05-15

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Gloria Was Set 10 Building Fire.
nis office. lIe sauntered 10 the waters
edge and chartered motor boat. lie
dropped into It aud turred the engine
over. The water began 10 eEun and the
\ boat Ia skim The flashing waters Of Lake
I Worth. lie was so eugor that he stood up
4 with the tillor ropes IN his band and
stared ahead as II already trying TO
pierce the veil
/ Almost everybody IN Florida must nave
been aware or Gloria's disappearance ex-
cept the family Of shftless paupers
named slpe. They had come south some
years before and put their savings in an
orange grove vicious winter frost had
ruined them in a night. They had neither
tho spirit 10 80 north nor TO conquer the
south. They sank into a kind Of suggard
lethargy hating the world and all the
lucky ones The tropical fertility of the
soil barely kept them from starvation
ana they loafed through life In sloyenly
detection
Gloria hed lain down to sleep just about
whore the sipe fence would have been
II there had been fence. She had not
seen their shack beyond the heavy
growth.
When she woke and yaWned and rubbed
her eyes and looked about she decided
that she must have fallen asleep in the
horticultural building al Bronx park She
could not imagine such giant, such gro
teaauc trees anywhere else. Then she
realized wnere she was ard how she had
come there, She wondered how she would
get out Of there. She wanted very much
to have hen governess scold her for over
sleeping and her maid 70 fill the tub with
water that was too hot as usual
She did not like TO be out In the broad
daylight in an evening gown, especially
not In gown so torn that the broad
daylight shone through It in places. She
rose TO her feet and limpod aimlessly.
She caught sight OF the sipe hovel. II was
a tumbledown hut, but 1t looked like the
/ Royal Poinelana TO her. The pigs and the
NANCY dogs might have heen gazeles m
park and the ragged man and woman
and boy might have been n group VI
royal blood.
She ran toward them for shelter They
| received her with stupid wonder and with
no hospitality. When she told who she
was the name Of Stafford meant nothing
to them. When she told how she came
there they did not believe her. They
stared at tho little diamond ring on her
finger and the gold bracelet al her wrist.
Those meant something TO them.
The woman upbraidcd Gloria for being
out in such rags and Gloria offered TO
buy anything she had Mrs Sine refused
10 sell what she had on. which was MI
she had Tho only extra covering was a
new suit she was making for the boy out
Of some hemp sackng. Gloria did not
want boys clothes. but Mrs. Sipe
sncered that they were more decent than
what she had on Also that she might
pass some rough characters or even some
Seminole Indians on her way back and
that she would be safer as q boy than as
a girl.
This convinced Gloria. She paid for the
clothes with the ring and went into tho
shack TO change, The old woman snatchet
the gold bracelet from her arm She took
4 as payment for cup Of weak but
bitter coffee that Gloria gulpcd down.
When Gloria was dressed the slpe boy
was ordered to take her to path whici
would eventually lead her TO tho mar
road
II was easter walking in hrecchcs thar
In tho skirts she had worn Hut she I'll.
not Hike tho manner W the boy lie heRar
20 pay her crude compliments and flnalh
grew SO impudcut that she heXcd ht
cars lie took lis rovenFe by poinim,
her "a The wrong direction lie turn,e
lack and lnughed Tie had an m nourate.
sense 81 humor
Charts pushed "a ana On, growing NOR,
ana more doubtful ~ thr way aid Ills
m9llY feoisarr she lonsed Cor The littl,
racing car that she had len In tbs waves
81 even toF pouy % a mule She pFayet
fer anything % eide
Suddenly tup in the nath revealed
shat she taek b ~ sn answer 81 bt
rFafef hopss' IL VAS dolenl feosln.
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ea rs Fai maHeF had htted lhem
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