The Morgan City daily review. (Morgan City, La.) 1916-1920, 1917-01-09

Eyes? And what have your par
simonious habits to do with our pres
emit trouble?" queried Freneau pa
tiently.
Mulry was Disguised. "Why, don't
you see, you poor Don Juan? You
take these letterheads and write love
letters on them to your sick flancee.
take them with me and mail them
from the different towns make. Then
Miss Stafford will think you are there.
Meanwhile you can 60 away to the
Catskills and meet your troublesome
Lois. If you can't rig up some story
to get your letters back from her and
keep her quiet until after your mar
rage. why you're not the little bright
eyes always took you for. See now?"
Freneau did see. He was not en-
thusiastic, but this seemed the only
possible way to tide over the present
reef in his way to the harbor Of mat
rimony.
Freneau Was dishonorable. Freneau
was Enthusiastically an adventurer and
what the world calls cad. but he was
born of gentle people; he had good
blood in his veins, as his worldly
graces showed. He truly adored Gloria
and wanted only her. There was
sharp torment in the agonies he en-
dured fearing the loss of her through
his previous sins. His punishment was
not far on and he was to meet it
with neither peaceful thoughts nor
clear conscience. He had enmeshed
himself in SO complex q web Of in
trigue and wrongdoing that the prob
lem Of escape was ever moro complex.
who knows? II Gloria had been
. woman when he first saw her, the
woman she now was, instead Of the
child then. she might have saved his
soul and his life. But he had to take
the present AZ the past gave it to him.
and hope for future Of more straight
forward life.
Late that night in his apartment
Freneau started the batch Of love let
tiers and kilograms for Gloria. He be-
came interested in them, and so car
ried away by the fervor he infused
into them that early dawn and his
valet found him asleep ut last with
his head resting on sheets Of paper
that bore such messages as:
my darling Gloria: As I tele-
graphed you, arrived safely, but
missed you terribly. This week Of alb
sence will seem an eternity"
This was on q letterhead Of the
Hotel Ten Eyck in Albany. Others
were from other hotels. The last one
be had written was on the paper Of
The Fort Pitt hotel, Pittsburgh. In it
be said:
'The eternity of this long week il
over. I return tomorrow to your
arms"
He sealed the letters, wondering
what would be the answer to them
He took them to the office, and the
next day when Mulry took his train
10 Albany he carried with him these
etters. He was we'll pleased with the
of lies that he and Freneau
lad woven to deceive Gloria. But 1t
d much easier to carry out plots in
lotion than IN fact.
David, Lois, and her father, Judge
freeman, were going to the opera that
light and they stopped to see Gloria
N their way. Gloria was sitting up
N her chaise Tongue. still pale and
|omewhat weak. She submitted,
'ather than invited. the in-law kiss
hat Lois brushed over her cheek.
Then she turned to David and pouted:
"Oh, dear, some people have oil the
uck. You are going to hear Geral-
line Farrar In Madame Butterfly
While l must lie here doing nothing.
they won't even let me read, the stin-
y old things!" she made moue 1t
Ter nurse. "And I do despise to b
cad to. Just wait until ! get out Of
heir clutches, I'll make up for this:
II be Madame Butterfly all over the
lace"
David smiled ct her innocence In
he allusion to Butterfly, but neither
e nor Gloria knew that Lieutenant
'inkerton was white woolly lamb
to Gloria's own lover, Ere
eau.
Lois had moved away from Gloria
oward the bedside table, where .
ramed photograph Of Freneau looked
at her. A jealous desire for
came over her. She longed
, take the image Of the man from
loria % we'll o. the man himself |
he within became immediately . |
ecessity to her. She glanced across
{ the group about Gloria. No one
- looking her way. A smile CURED |
the corners Of her lips and . IT.
mphant CLEAN shot for . moment |
ito her handsome. SULTAN eyes - sAe,I
Tipped tho picture into her opera bae.
Lois was utterly maddened ~ g. |
(To - Continued} :