The evening world., 1916-06-03

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ahead as II already trying to pierce
the veil.
Almost everybody in Florida must
have been aware OF Gloria's disap-
pearance except the family OF shift
les. paupers named Sipc. They had
come south some years before and put
their savings in an orange grove A
vicious winter frost had ruined them
in night. They had neither the
spirit TO 70 North nor TO conquer the
South. They sank into kind OF slug
gard lethargy. hating tho world and
all the lucky ones. Tho tropical fer
tility OF tho soil barely kept them
from starvation, and they loafed
through life in slovenly detection.
Gloria had lain down to sleep Just
about where the Spe fence would
have been If there had been a 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
at Bronx Park.
She did not like to be out in the
broad daylight in an evening gown.
especially not in n gown so torn that
the broad daylight shone through II
limpcd aimlessly. She caught sight OF
the Sipe hovel. 1t was a tumbledown
hut, but 1t looked like the Royal Poin-
ciana to her. The pigs and the NANCY
dogs might have been gazolles In 4
park and the ragged man and woman
and boy might have been n group OF
royal blood.
She ran toward them for shelter
They received her with stupid Won
der 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 the little diamond ring on her
finger and the gold bracelet at her
wrist. These meant something TO
them.
The woman upbraidcd Gloria for be-
ing out In such rags and Gloria offered
TO buy anything she had. Mrs. Sir
refused TO sell what she had on. which
was all she had The only extra cover
Ing was a new suit she was making
for the boy out of some hemp saCking
Gloria did not want 4 boys clothes,
but Mrs. Sipe sncercd that they were
more decent than what she had on.
Also that she r' ut r" ss some rough
characters or even some Seminole In
dians on her way back, and that she
would be safer as "A boy than as rtrl
This convinced Gloria. She paid for
the clothes with the ring and went into
the shack to change. The old woman
snatched the gold bracelet from her
arm. She took 1t as part payment for
cup OF weak but bitter coffee that
Gloria gulped down.
When Gloria was dressed the Sipe
n IN "a
which would eventually lead her to
the main road.
II was easier walking In breeches
than in the skirts she had worn. But
she did not like the manner of the boy.
lie began to pay her crude compli-
ments and finally grew SO impudent
that she boxed his ears, lie took his
revenge by pointing her in the wrong
direction, He turned back and laughed.
He had An III nourished sense Of
humor.
Gloria pushed on and on. growing
more and more doubtful OF the way
and dismally footsore. She longed for
the little racing car that she had left
In the waves, or even for a pony or
mule. She prayed for anything to ride.
suddenly q turn in the path re-
vealed what she took TO bo an answer
TO her prayer-a horse! II was a dole
full looking animal, yet II was a horse.
She ran forward and spoke TO it
soothingly. But IL backed and reared,
1t was not a white mans horse and 1t
hated the whites even as its red master
had hated them. Thereby hung a tale.
The family known as tho Cypress
Wolves" was the sole remnant OF one
Of the ferCest tribes the pale faces had
met IN the Seminole wars,
Many Of the tribe had been cap
tured by objectionable trcachery.
The soldiers of that day. unable TO
follow the Indians to their haun's,
used false promises TO lure them out.
Our dealings with the Seminoles are
among the worst blotches ON Ameri-
can history. They earned for us the
undying distrust OF such Indians as
still remain In the Everglades. To
them the words white man" and
liar" are synonymous.
They guard the secret paths OF tie
maze with religious devotion and they
have refused all bribes to disclose
them. The Indians nowadays are
often kindly 10 such lost explorers as
fall among them, They viii guide the
wanderers out, but they Will not guide
them N -.