Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1917-02-23
EIGHTEENTH EPISODE
The Bitter Truth.

The distress III jealousy that Gloria
felt I'D the thought ~ Doctor RoyccS
smiling and waving at someone else
had had a pleasant tang. for jealousy
is a phase Of love. But now Gloria
stared an Royce with adherence. lie
WAS repulsiVe ia her eyes as he ran
toward her in pursuit of the boy StaS,
then checked himself and watched her
with guilty apprehension w.en he SAW
She recognized the envelope In her
hands. Gloria sent the boy away. told
him Cd run to his mother. She wanted
10 ~ rid III him for the lime.
Give me the envelope, Gloria
Royce pleaded.
Give ID tn you?r Gloria cried.
"What right have you 10 ID? hnow
whose il was. | know that il was
Dicks. Therefore it is mine and I'm
going to keep IT,"
BETTER not" ne stammered, his fac
ulties ia such a panic that his hat fell
from his hand. lie stopped To pick
il IN, his bac., to Gloria.
The envelope She held had sudden
IN revived her memories AZ clear aS
reality. Her first memory was ~ the
scene i'll her room when She SnatChed
tile envelope from DICK Frcneau and
trased him with II. never dreaming
what il contained. Next she saw
anew that scene in front of the Sol
dierS' and Sailors monument which
She had Witnessed through the
binoculars. once more she beheld
the monument in the moonlight and
the snowlighr; he man in evening
dress, with his collar up and his hat
down. skulking il the shadows; then
tne appearance NJ 1rnSk, the u~ncNpect-
"a coming NJ Dick Tren-au. his pause
- light his cigarette while Gloria from
afar hclplcS~ly watched the assassin
creep up On him and throttle him to
death.
TraSk vanished and the skulker came
10y again. stumbled over Dicks body.
knclt. listened To his heartbeat. then.
satisfied IF his death. ghouliShly rifci
his pockets and took from them this
very envelope that had come back into
her hands 80 C~urinuSly through the
prank of a miSchicyuus child.
Into the vivid tahleau of that mem.
CRY the knceling figure II Doctor Royce
fitted 10 perfection. Gloria had A sud
den intuition that She understood the
truth al last. Decor Royce had told
her that her vision was delirlum he
cause il was himself that she had seen.
All his devotion now tOok on II new
and hideous look. He had not cared
for her. lie had meant only 10 blind
her and divert her from her rcvenge
lie had nearly succeeded. She had
frittrd away her time. She had be-
lieyed the Indian chief who said tina
II was Royce and not Frencau who hat-
tied for her and saved her. she hadI
allowed herself to think disIoyally oil
her dead lover. She would exact dou-
bic vengeance for that.
She advanced NJ once on The kneel-l
ing Royce and cried out upon him:
ut was YOU. them You of all the
people in the world! | see you now as
plainly rs ! did that night, only | was
too foolish "a suspect you
"What do you mean, Gloriar~ Royce
asked hoarSely.
i mean that you had n share in the
murder of my poor lover. You hired
that beast TrlSk and you went there
10 make sure he did his work Well"
"Gloria. Gloria !" Royce sighed. so
deep and honest a sorrow in his face
that Gloria was staggered. But only
for a moment. Her wrath carried her
on:
You made q foOl Of me for n long
time, but you were too clever too long. !
ana now | know know a little NJ
Least, alri In Soing t. know more.