Omaha daily bee., 1916-06-12
Gloria's Romance
SIXTH INSTALLMENT.

Frencau's engagement to the daugh.
ter OF the great Pierpont Stafford
as kind OF collateral at the bank.
When the girl was stricken down
with pneumonia, Freneau's heart was
wrung as well as his purse. He was
genuinely in love with Gloria. 1t was
not hard to love so beautiful, SO rich.
and so infatuated a girl But he had
not counted on death as a possible
rival.
And there was another, more
certain rival---Dr. Stephen Royce
whom Gloria's brother David had
called in to take charge OF the case,
Royce had loved Gloria before FIRE.
neau ever saw her. 1t was Royce
who had actually saved her from the
Seminole Indians. Royce despised
Freneau and had told him so. Royce
would not even permit Freneau 10
enter the sick room, where he was
master.
Freneau was permitted to send up
flowers. but he could not be sure tina
they reached her. He wondered What
Royce was saying about him to Gloria
and whether she believed ii.
He did not know that Royce had
been discouraged to make even what
protest he might have given voice TO.
When he first entered Gloria's room
Royce saw on the little table near
her bed silver-framed portrait Of
\ Freneau Gloria was too delirious to
see how his lip curlcd with scorn.
But her father saw it, and when
Royce said. This fellow is scoun-
drel,' Pierpont answered. sternly:
Il called you to treat my daugh-
ter's health. not her heart"
Freneau did not know that he had
such an ally in the family. But he
knew that he had an enemy OF a
peculiar sort, an enemy who loved
him not wisely, but too well. And
that was Lois, the wife OF David Stat
ford.
The poor Don Juan of a Freneau
had never dreamed when he began a
casual filtration with Lois that she
would prove so desperate Worship
per. He had expect that she would
let him 60 with sigh or smile, as
his other sweethearts had done when
they realized that his heart had
wings and used them. He was to
learn how seriously Lois took his at
tentions and to learn il at d most
ineonvenient time. He had respected
Pierpont's wish that the engagement
to Gloria should be kept secret, and
had told no one but bis partner,
Mulry. He had most decidedly not told
Lois. He was planning TO discard
her as gracefully as possible before.
the news broke.
Mulry had chucklcd with Joy at
the news OF the engagement But ne
4 grew as glum as an owl when ne
learned Of Ilorias Illness. ~ length
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