The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1916-12-01

a feeling of lowering calamity. Pres
emily realization came. Her lover had
been murdered. She hid her face in
the pillows and moaned: 1T can't be
true; it can't be true"
The day nurse tried to soothe her,
bathing her face and hands, arrang.
ing her hair. Then the butler arrived
with a telegram for Gloria, who took
it from him with trembling hands.
A glad cry escaped the girls lips
as she read it.
Hope you slept we'll and dreamed of
me. Am writing. Devoted love.
DICK"
Gloria passed her hand across her
brow in a daze. She read the tele-
gram again and called to Miss Arm
strong and Doctor Royce, who had
just entered.
She showed them the telegram, try
ing to hold her fingers owe the words
to let them see only Arrived safely
and Am writing"
Doctor Royce started, but recover
li5 uihloCllg CApi CooO0 g. CdI uOll6nI.
Il told you it was a delirium." Yet
the nurse, glancing from the telegram
to the doctor, noted a puzzled look on
his face that belied his words.
AT last the doctor was able to place
the thermometer in Gloria's mouth.
She tried to speak, but he ordered her
to keep silence, and stood in a brown
study. Gloria indicated by crude and
impatient pantomime that she wanted
paper and pencil. She proceeded to
compose a telegram, shifting her posi-
ton that the doctor might not see
what she wrote.
Doctor Royce took the thermome-
ter from her lips, and she went on
writing, without noticing him. He
nodded his head, apparently satisfied,
and the nurse entered the tempera-
ture on the chart. Then bidding
Gloria good-by, the doctor left the
room, still musing.
Gloria continued her task, apparent
ly a difficult one, and chewed the end
Of her pencil to bits. At last the re-
suit, much UNDERSIGNED and scratched
out, read:
Your angelic telegram received.
It was terribly welcome. I did not
sleep, but l dreamed a horrible dream
about you. O%verjoyed to know you
are safe. Please take are Of your
self and telegraph on receipt Of this
that you are still all right. Much
love. GLORIA"
Dispatching her telegram by a ser
want, Gloria gave her attention to the
breakfast tray her nurse placed on the
bed. The invalid turned up her little
nose as she uncovered the plate of
Cruel, but ate it greedily, nevertheless,
and then, worn out by her emotions of
the night before, but in a peaceful
frame of mind at last, she settled her
self for a long, refreshing sleep.
A few hours later when she awoke
it was to receive another message.
The telegraph company notified her
that her telegram to Freneau at his
hotel was not delivered: Party not
known there"
Before she could recover from her
bewilderment, close on the heels of
this message came a special delivery
owe letter from her lover written on
the hotel paper and postmarked AL
bany.
Gloria was completely dazed, her
brain in a whirl Of contradictions.
What could she do? Where could
she find her lover? Was he alive or
dead?
AT this time, in the boudoir of her
home, Lois Stafford paced the floor,
at the photograph of Freneau
which she had stolen from Gloria.
Despair tore at her heartstrings. She
and beat her breast. A knock
at the door brought her to herself and
she called: Who's there?" The
of her husband came through
he door. She cast a look of anger at
he door, then hid the photograph and
her eyes hastily. Then she
'orced a smile and admitted David.
He carried an offering of flowers in
lis hands.
Il thought you were on your way
oOutu, IOio CACinilhCu 40 ohO OM
oraced MIN with apparent fervor.
81 decided not to go and turned
pack. Are you sorry?" he asked hun
She answered: my love!" and
,lasped him close.
She was afraid to ask him any ques-
ions lest he ask questions of her.
The following morning Gloria, still
'ee-sawing between joy and anguish,
'eceived a telegram from Freneau at
Buffalo. She t~elegraphed to him at
lis address there. Later the message
reported undelivered. Yet in due
ime a letter came from Freneau on
he hotel paper.
The next day a message Of love
rom Cleveland. Now she called the
lotel on the long-distance telephone.
The clerk insisted that Freneau was
lot there and had not been there.
1t was the same with messages
rom Detroit, Chicago, st. Louis, and
pittsburgh. Gloria felt that she was
,eing slowly driven insane. But her
oddly health improved throughout the
week in spite of her mental distress
nd Doctor Royce told her that she
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