Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1917-01-02

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CHANGING over the balustrade. Ere
neau caught sight o. Lois mounting
the stairs with her husband. She Was
looking for him. and he smiled back
at her with stinted grace. He did not
notice that on the other stairway or
the big double zigzag Pierront Stat
ford vas coming up with a vision or
young loneliness at his side. He did
not know Gloria saw him. lie did not
Q her clutch her fathers arm and
almost swoon with delight.
lie might have observed all this and
still not have suspected who the girl
was, for the Gloria he had found in
scuaw costume IN the everglades. the
Gloria who had exchanged VOWS with
him on the veranda or the Poinciana,
the Gloria who had waved farewells
TO him from the receding train fivel
years ego. had all but reccded from
his memory. What recollection heI
had OF her was OF q little sixteen-year-
old thing with her hair down her back
and an air or almost childish imra.
turity.
The Gloria who marched up tho
bread steps or the Metropolitan was
a young lady OF twenty. one with her
hair up, her head full OF knowledge,
and her features changed as the bud
Is changed when IL becomes a rose.
Her costume was the latest thing from
Paris. still Paris in spite OF the war.
Gloria could hardly climb the steps
to the level OF Freneau. Her father
did not know him. but she did. She
left her fathers side and hurried to
Freneau's. He did not hear her or
know that she was at his elbow. trem.
bling with rapture and trying TO keep
from crying his name aloud and seiz-
ing him by the arm that had saved
her from the Indians. She coughed
and he did not hear. At last she VEN
tured the terrific deed OF touching his
sleeve with her finger tip. He turned
and she murr1ured:
"Mr. Freneau. I believer"
He turned. saw that a most exQuis-
tie creature had addressed him. won
dered who under the sun she was, lift
ed his hat. made a violent p~retense
at remembering her perfectly, having
met her Just the day before. and ex.
claimed: why, hello! I'm SO glad
you got here"
He put out mis- hand. Dut hers fell
away before he could clasp II. She
had thrust her arm into her fathers
elbow and hurried him along toward
the door OF their box while Freneau
whirled and stared.
Mulry stared. too and muttered:
Good Lord. who's the new peach with
old Pierpont?"
at u be his daughter; it's
Gloria!" Freneau gasped.
"His daughter! DO you know heir"
know heri" Freneau laughed.
well. ratherl I'm engaged to her In
a way"
Engaged in a way!" Mulry repeat
cd We'll. marry her quick. Her old
mans money will come in mighty
handy"
Freneau leaned against the balus.
trade thinking SO hard and recasting
his plans so rapidly and with such
enthusiasm that Lois not only touched
his arm but pinched 1t flercely before
he noticed her. Then he stared at
her with a cold Indifference that veri-
fed her widest fears.
Meanwhile Gloria was sitting in
miserable splenGor on a little gold
chair In a box like a prison cell to
her and she was batting her eyes fast
TO shake away the tears that came
pellmeli She was %wringing her little
white giovel hands and trying not To
sob aloud: "He doesn't remember
me! lie doesn't remember mel
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