Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1917-04-19

his conquests appeared. Nell Trask
had learned from a newspaper that
her father had been knocked down by
an automobile and taken to a hospital.
She visited him there. His bodily in
juries were not serious, but he was
brooding so bitterly over Freneau that
Nell began to fear for his reason. He
told her that he had seen Freneau
and had denounced him, and Freneau
had struck him in the face. Old Trask
was burning to avenge it, He whisS
pered to Nell that he would reachy
Freneau yet and strangle him like a
dog. She feared both for her own
father and for the father of her dead
child. She thought of writing Freneav
to warn him, but that might only lead
him to prosecute Der father. Perhaps
IL she begged hiia to marry her, he
would be rich enough now. She found
out Freneau's address with little diff
ficulty, and appeared at his door soon
after Lois had left him, in an ugly
mood. The apparition now of so hum
BILE an incident in his past as the
daughter of a bargeman was too dis
gusting to endure.
When the valet opened Freneau's
door, Nell slipped past him and ran
straight to Freneau. He could moi
even pretend the ordinary courtesies
He would not listen to her. He or
dered his valet to bundle her out and
to take his own two weeks notice.
Nell had no more fight in her than
a violet. Like violet, she bloomed
to be trodden on or plucked for
moment and tossed aside. She drifted
back to the shabby barge moored at
the dock and waited for her father to
return home"
Freneau, raging and calling himself
fool, drove his arms into the over
coat his man held for him and left
for his office, wondering whether he
was to be compelled to close up the
Office because of the follies he had
committed. He agreed that Irritation
was poor business.
All this while Gloria lay in her bed
by the window imagining that Freneav
was pining away for her, while she
was getting well as fast as she coulG
for him. Doctor Royce's treatment
consisted mainly in keeping out o.
the way of nature, helping it, but MOI
impeding it with drugs. Gloria was
responding with all the rush of youth
He was glad of his success as physi
clan, but he was miserable over hei
eagerness to get back to her romance
Once, while he watched her as she
slept, he saw that she smiled He was
afraid that he knew why When her
eyes opened and stared about he;
room and at him in bewilderment, he
understood that she had come out OF
the dream realm.
ooh, such a wonderful dream Pvs
had. I dreamed / was well-all of .
sudden hoped out Of bed, and-pres
to, my clothes were on without all thu
trouble of buttons and hooks and eyes
and l fioated through the wall ant
over the roofs and climbed down tn,
chimney Of Dicks apartment houss
like regular Santa Claus.
"Then came out through the steam
radiator without even rumpling my
frock, and there found Dick so lone
ly and forlorn as never was. When
he saw me he nearly expired of Joy
"Then I took him by the hand and
fioated with him through the wall and
across the roof to the darlingest little
church. The darlingest little ministe.
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 heaven'i
sake, and get me we'll"
And like dutiful young physician
he promised But he wondered wheth
er it was kindness or not to restore
her to the world where dreams do nol
often come true-unless they are bad
dreams.
(To BE coNTINUED.)