The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1917-05-10

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was kept on the run for days an,
nights. She worked as only rich won
en- work when some orgy Of charit
Is on foot.
Gloria in turn kept everyone in he
neighborhood scampering. Her father
her fathers secretary, her brother an,
his secretary, even her brothers wife
she made use Of.
Lois responded to the lash with al
enthusiasm that surprised Gloria. Sh,
began to understand that idleness hat
been q more cogent excuse for frivol
ity than she had believed when Loi!
gave it. She saw that Lois heart
which had yielded too easily to the
Establishments of Freneau, yielded as
easily to the allurements of unselfsf
labor.
The plans for the Polish fete were
changed again and again. The boy
Stas was so much in the way thai
Gloria set him q task to keep him out
from under her feet. He brought in
the children of the vicinage and estab.
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
be had resort to the wild a%rbitrament
battle, and two or three small
noses ruined two or three hand
suits Of clothes. After that Stas
was the accepted leader.
In his researches among the picture
books he found a "Pied Piper of Ham
lin" and made his "Aunt Gloria" tell
him all about 1t. He decided that she
should be the pied piper and he would
organize an army of children for her
TO pipe away. She kissed him for the
and that event was one of
The successes of the afternoon. Mobs
Of people thronged the Stafford estate
On the afternoon Of the festival and
he roads outside were q~uadruply lined
With automobiles.
There was no hesitation about en-
piratical methods of extorting
the rich as much money as they
been reckless enough to bring with
lhem. The hollow eyes of the ragged
'tarvelings of Poland would have filed
With wonder If they could have seen
n far-of America the well-fed, silk
lad a%ristocrats revealing In their be-
lalf. 1t was a strange way of getting
GOD for the hungry but II, was the
ashton OF the day, and most important
oil, it accomplished its purpose.
The world was so packed with
ragedy and so bounded with cries for
'ity that 1t took something more than
orrow to .wheedle funds from the
weary public. 1t took beauty and en-
Gloria furnished these In
ull measure ut her festival. In her
aged doublet and hose. with her
Gathered cap atilt, she danced and
iped, and the children followed about
ne lawn with a moving audience till
he led her little army into the great
that Pierpont had ordered con-
tructed In n Of his hills.
The mothers left behind pretended
weep for their lost ones, and they
egged the pied piper to return. So
loria, contrary to tradition. came
ack from the cave, and, surrounded
= her kidnapped troop. bowed and
owed.
Gloria was good and tired when the |
Ist of the spectators had gone home
impoverished. She stretched herself
1t on the divan In the living room and
1T her old loneliness come back upon
y. Her task was done and she was Of
more use to the world, for, of
'urses her father had pointed out to
y that her project to take the funds
Poland In person wns a beautiful
possibility. There were several mill.
soldiers between her and Poland.
ID the price Of the voyage, even IL
q conld make It, would buy several
ousands Of loaves Of bread.
She was In 80 forlorn a humor that
hen Doctor Royce took a chair close
her and poured forth his praises.
. accepted them hungrily. He was
courtgedsto the widest hopes by her
spon9e and he kept launching his
closer and closer. /,
His head was almost touching hers
zen her father had come into the
0Yn with the nroroodn ~ ~. e.~xs--s