The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1916-11-09

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There Freneau found her huddled VI
on the lower step, hugging herself al
IL she were cold. He rushed to TAKE
her in his arms for kiss. She bat
tied him with mock resistance, before
she ran up the stairs to play Juliet t.
his Romeo. Then, throwing kisses
they parted.
When she reached her room Gloria
found herself shivering with violent
chill that all the warmth of her heart
could not subdue. Burroughs was in
stanNy alarmed. She summoned
Gloria's father, who was even more
alarmed. He made her go to bed at
once, ordered her covered with many
blankets, and had hot-water bottles
filled.
The chill did not abate. In panic
he telephoned from Glorias own room
to his old family physician, Doctor
Wakefield, and was fortunate enough
to reach him and be assured of his
immediate attendance. Doctor Wake
field was a fussy medical man of the
very old school. He had taken good
care of the Stafford family, but lat
terly he had let science outrun him.
Still he recognized pneumonia without
difficulty. He whispered the dreadful
word to Stafford and ordered in two
trained nurses and no end of medi-
cines.
Pierpont Stafford was frantic with
anxiety. He telephoned for Gloria's
brother and for Aunt Hortensia. Bur-
roughs told them Of the stolen sleigh
ride and Freneau became less popular
with the Staffords, father and son, than
sver before.
Days and nights of narrowing fear
dragged over that household. Wealth
had not duTIed affection, nor could It
seem to brtbe death. The fever line
mounted on the nurses chart like
mountain side, and Gloria grew weak
err. except in her deliriums, when she
seemed to be inhabited by demons Of
ferocious strength
At length David felt that Doctor
Wakefield had been given all the time
to experiment with Gloria's life that
could be afforded. He was for calling
in young man Of the newest school
Of medical art. He called for Doc
tor Royce. Royce came with no hesi-
tation over medical ethics or cour-
tesies. Gloria was more than a pa |
tient to him, and old Wakefield was |
less than a doctor in his eyes, after
he had questioned the Staffords as to
the manner Of Doctor Wakefield's
treatment. Things were, as he feared,
all wrong. 1t was life or death. Doc
tor Wakefield could not cope with the
disease. He must be dispossessed as
politely as possible.
Doctor Wakefield, he learned, was in
the sickroom above. Royce would not
mince matters or wait on professional
etiquette. He felt the eagerness Of
a lover in coming once more to tho
rescue Of his idolized Gloria
He ran up the stairs and walked into
the room. He hardly knew his Gloria
when he saw her. She was in the
.hroes of a wild delirium. She mag
ned herself once more among the ,
5eminoles who had held her in bond
lge when she ran away in Florida five
1ears before.
In her tormenting fancy she was
lgain dressed as a squaw and set to
he task of gathering firewood and
ubjected to the worse task Of endur-
ng the old squaws hatred and the
-oung chiefs love. She begged him
O kill her rather than marry her, and
he fought with all her fury, selling
white hair with one hand
nd the nurses black locks with the
ther
There was no quieting her outcries.
Take me home; my father is rich.
lie will make you rich! oh, they don't
elieve me! Help! Help"' Then she
miled and cried: dick, Dick, it's
gu! You'll save me! Blessed, beloved
lick! Oh, I'm SO glad, so glad you
Ound mel"
Then the frenzy left her and she
ank back exhausted, but content. Doc
Or Royce realized that he had two
now to fight-Death and
.ichard Freneau-both of them try
lg to take from him the girl Of his
cart.
Death was the first to fight. Royce
vas too desperate to treat Doctor
Wakefield with much formality. He
sked a few questions which reused
10 ire Of the old physician. He ex-
mined the patient, threw off the
blankets and exclaimed,
Fresh air is the best and only treat
tent for pneumonia" He flung up the
indow, showed Gloria's bed against it,
nd let the cold air from the
yer sweep into the room and into her
lungs.
Almost at once her breathing be- /
ame less labored. Doctor Wakefield
1T in as dignified a rage as he could
anage. Royce threw away all the
Wakefield medicines and gave the
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