Omaha daily bee., 1916-05-22

one dance with him, however. or one
moonlight conversation She had
not had five minutes chat with hin
since the rescue Even in the dugoui
there had been stupid Indian look
ing on
She did not help in the packing
with much grace There was one
consolation Her father was going
to send her 10 school That meant
an escape from her demon Roverness
and those lonely hours Of study and
recitation. She would have girls OF
her own age for fellows
/ At the railroad station she was not
surprised to find Mr. Freneau wait
ing She was enraged TO have her
father break in on her first few words
and drag her oil the train She
slipped away and came back 10 finish
what she had started. Then the gov
erness appeared and hauled her
aboard She stole back down the
/ steps once more, only to have her
I father storm down after her and
carry her off bodily. Then the train
started and she had no chance 10
say the million and a half things a
young woman would naturally have
to say to her ffance on leaving him
for five years.
Freneau felt rather lonely, too.
when he saw the long train dwindle
away northward. He wondered
when he would see Gloria again. She
was sweet little thing, in spite Of
her money She was prettier than
any girl he had ever met. He kept
telling himself so-even when he
flirted with some other pretty girl
he told himself that she was not half
so pretty as Gloria. That was his
idea of fidelity, for. OF course. he
could not be expected to be a saint.
He had not promised himself any
thing so foolish.
Five years is long time, and many
things can happen in the eighteen
hundred odd days and nights Lois
Freeman went north on the same
train with Gloria, as did her father
and that hound OF Royce.
Freneau hated Royce, for we
rarely like the people whose prop
erty we have stolen. Freneau would
have given the impudent a sound
beating. too, il he had not seen the
way Royce attacked that poor Indian
and knocked him senseless. He had
no desire to go against those same
sledge- hammer fists. He was glad
that Royce was gone He hoped
that he might never see him again.
Gloria was gone and Lois was
gone, but an attractive youth like
Freneau was not left alone in such
multitudes OF women as gather at
Palm Beach with no more serious
purpose than escaping the cold drafts
OF the north and the torrents OF
boredom in the south. Many women
had 10 tell him how brave Il was OF
him to go into the depths OF the ever
glades and tear from the savages
there a daughter OF the Stafford
house, Many OF them told him that
they would be glad To be rescued BY
him from any danger,
lie spent so much time gathering
the applause from fair women that /.
when the season closed at Palm /.
Beach his firm gave him his full lib. /.
erty. He had done nothing. they
wrote, 10 encourage them 70 pay him
further salary. He had 70 go next to .
places where his fame had not
reaehed-wherc he had only his win.
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men rather hard 10 impress. but .
there was always some woman fool. /
lsh enough 10 believe 10 his heauti. .
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