The Twin Falls times. [volume] (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1905-1916, 1916-10-26

Trask Tells
was kept on the run for days and |
nights. She worked as only rich wOm-
en- work when some orgy Of charity
is on foot.
Gloria in turn kept everyone in her
neighbornood scampering. Her father,
her fathers secretary. her brother and
his secretary, even her brothers wife,
she made use of.
Lois responded to the lash with an
enthusiasm that surprised Gloria. She
began to understand that idleness had
been a more cOgent excuse for frivOl-
ity than she had believed when Lois
gave it. She saw that Lois heart
which had yielded too easily to the
Establishments of Freneau. yielded as
easily to the allurements of unselfish
labor.
The plans for the Polish fete were
changed again and again. The boy
Stas was so much in the way that
Gloria set him n task to keep him out
from under her feet. He brought in
| "'AAN% $1,000
lished himself as their leader.
Some of the rich tots, like their
parents. were good fellows; a few of
them wOeful snObs These latter twit-
: ted Stas with his origin, whereupon
he had resort to the wild arbitrament
of battle, and two or three small
bloody noses ruined two or three hand
some suits of clothes. After that Stas
was the accepted leader.
In his researches among the picture
books he found "Pied Piper of Ham
lin" and made his Aunt Gloria" tell
him all about it. He decided that she
j should be the pied piper and he would
organize an army of children for her
[ to pipe away. She kissed him for the
e inspiration and that event was one of
/ the successes Of the afternoon. MObs
t of people thronged the Stafford estate
on the afternoon of the festival anc
the roads outside were quadruply LINED
e with automobiles.
e There was no hesitation about EN-
ploying piratical methods of extortinl
from the rich as much money as the!
D. had been reckless enough to bring will
e them. The hollow eyes of the ragged
l starvelings of Poland would have fille'
It with wonder if they could have seei
I'd in far-off America the well-fed, silk
lg clad aristocrats reveling in their be
Mt half 1t was a strange way of gettin
ir food for the hungry, but it was tn
to fashion of the day, and most importan
We of all, it accomplished its purpose.
The world was so packed wit
II tragedy and so bounded with cries fo
=" pity that it took something more tina
70 sorrow to wheedle funds from tn
~ weary public 1t took beauty and ell
or tertainment. Gloria furnished these
rs full measure at her festival. In he
f. ragged doublet and hose, with he
,ft feathered cap atilt, she danced an
ON piped, and the children followed abol
no the lawn with a moving audience ii
sv she led her little army into the gre;
re cave that PierpOnt had ordered CO..
cd structed in one of his hills.
of The mothers left behind pretendC
to weep for their lost ones, and the
- begged the pied piper to return.
Gloria, contrary to tradition, can
t. back from the cave, and surround'
by her kidnapped troop, bowed al
bowed.
49, Gloria was good and tired when d
last of the spectators had gone hor
impoverished. She stretched herst
out on the divan in the living room al
felt her old loneliness come back up
=, her. Her task was done and she was
- - no more use to the world, for,
, ,.' course, hc' father had pointed out
~ her that her project to take the fun
l,"1 to Poland in person was a beautit
LII mpossibility. There were several IN
lion soldiers between her and Polar
and the price of the voyage, even
She could make it, would buy sever
thousands of loaves of bread.
an She was in so forlorn a humor I'll
ut when Doctor Royce took chair Gle
an to her and poured forth his prais
~ she accepted them hungrily. He "
encouraged to the widest hopes by /
CO. response and he kept launching
'uy' chair closer and closer.
His head was almost touching h
when her father had come into
room with the proceeds of the festiv
There were baskets of bills and DO,
'allu of coin and the total was thousands
Ten dollars.
WIN Royce fell back disheartened.
ana had forgotten how rich Gloria was, 8
pest how poor in comparison was even
ora success. He haf nee on thu point