The Elbert County tribune., 1917-03-09

his cOHqueSlS dppedreu Neli lIdSi
had learned from a newspaper tha
her father had been knocked down By
an automobile and taken to a hospital
| She visited him there. His bodily IL
| juries were not serious. but he wal
brooding so bitterly ove- Freneau tha
Nell began to fear for his reason. HI
| told her that he had seen FreneaI
| and had denounced him, and FreneaI
had struck him in the face. Old Trasl
was burning to avenge it. He whis
pered TO Nell that he would reacf
Freneau yet and strangle him like
dog. She feared both for her owl
father and for the father of her deaf
child. She thought of writing Frenea,
to warn him, but that might only Leaf
him to persecute her father. Perhapl
If she begged him to marry her, hi
would be rich enough now. She fount
out Freneau's address with little dif
ficulty. and appeared at his door sooI
after Lois had left him, in an ugl,
mood. The apparition now of so hum
BILE an incident in his past az the
daughter of bargeman was too dis
gusting to endure.
When the valet opened Freneau'i
door. Nell slipped past him and rar
straight to Freneau He could no
even pretend the ordinary courtesies
He would not listen to her. He or
dered his valet to bundle her out ant
to take his own two weeks notice.
Nell had no more fight in her thar
a violet. Like violet, she bloomed
to be trodden on or plucked for
moment and tossed aside. She driftet
back to the shabby barge moored al
the dock and waited for her father te
return home"
Freneau, raging and calling himsel
fool, drove his arms into the over
coat his man held for him and lef
for his Office, wondering whether hi
was to be compelled to close up tn,
| Office because of the follies he hat
committed. He agreed that fiirtatior
was poor business
| All this while Gloria lay In her be6
by the window imagining that Freneat
was pinfng away for her, while SHIT
was getting we'll as fast as she coult
for him. Doctor Royces treatment
consisted mainly in keeping out O.
the way of nature, helping it, but no,
impeding 1t with drugs. Gloria wa,
responding with all the rush of youth
He was glad of his success as a physi
clan, but he was miserable over he,
eagerness to get back to her romance
Once, while he watched her as sh,
slept, he saw that she smiled. He was
| afraid that he knew why. When heI
eyes opened and stared about hel
| room and at him in bewilderment, he
understood that she had come out OF
the dream realm.
"Oh, such a wonderful dream I've
had. l dreamed / was well-all of
sudden hoped out of bed, and-pres
to. my clothes were on without all the
trouble of buttons and hooks and eyes
and floated through the wall ant
over the roofs and climbed down the
chimney of Dicks apartment house
like regular Santa Claus.
Then l came out through the steam
radiator without even rumpIing nv
frock, and there I found Dick SO lone
ly and forlorn as never was. When
he saw me he nearly expired of ioy.
Then l took him by the hand and
foated with him through the wall and
across the roof to the darlingest little
church. The darlingest little minister
fioated through the pulpit and then
dog on It'll had to go and wake up.
But wasn't it beautiful dream?"'
Beautiful" groaned Doctor Royce.
She was too happy to hear the sor.
row in his voice. She merely ex.
claimed: Hurry up, for heavens
sake, and get me we'll"
And, like a dutiful young physician,
he promised. But he wondered wheth.
er 1t was kindness or not to restore
her to the world where dreams do not
often come true-unless they are bad
dreams.
(TO BE CONTINTED,