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SYNOPSIS.

Pierpont Stafford. with his daughter
Gloria. is wintering at Palm Beach,
Gloria is a vlvacious but willful young
lady who chafes under the restraining
hand of a goVerness from whom she re-
peatedly escapes, Her childish capers
cause young Doctor Royce to fall IN
love with her. Becoming lost in the
everglades she falls into the hands of
the Seminole Indians. She is rescued
and returned to her father. Gloria
falls in love with her rescuer Freneau;
Pfve years later she leaves school and
meets Freneau at the theater; he has
forgotten Gloria. Gloria feels that her
persuades her to forgive him. Gloria's
sister-in-law, Lois becomes intensely
Jealous apa Doctor Royce discovers in
her an ally. Doctor Royce warns Ere
neau Freneau goes sleighing with
Gloria. 1t results in pneumonia for
Gloria, whose family becomes incensed
Royce is summoned to alleviate Gloria's
suffering. Freneau's finances being low
he approaches Pierpont Stafford for
loan. Doctor Royce again warns Ere
neau of his conduct. But Lois, learning
of Freneau's betrothal to Gloria, threat
ems him with dire punishment: Her
husband. Gloria's brother David. be-
:. comes suspicious. Freneau driven to
desperation by Lois threats agrees to
spend week with her in the Catskills
! He plans to have Mulry send Gloria
threatens to kill a man. After Ere
neau takes leave of Gloria she sees
from her window an attack made upon
him when he goes to meet Lois. Doctor
Royce convinces her that what she has
seen is the result of delirium. Later a
telegram, followed by a letter, comes
from Freneau. She replies but her te1e-
grams are returned The first morning
she is allowed from her room, she acct
IDENTIFY sees the supposed suicide of FIRE.
aeau reported in the paper Then Clio
yia swears to find the murderer of her
Hover. Royce becomes alarmed and
tells what he knows of Freneau to Mr..
Stafford. Together they seek to pre-
vent scandal from enveloping Gloria.
She accuses them in her mind of con-
sp4racy against her. Gloria sets about
10 run down Freneau's murderer.
Royce warns Mulry to tell Gloria moth
ing. Gloria calls on Mulry and there
sees Lois who also is worried. Gloria's
suspicious are aroused. Royce endeav-
eys to show her the difficulty she faces.
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would last. He was tempted to go out
and surrender to this young girl who
was stalking him with such relentless
stealth.
But he thought of the money her IA
Their had given to Freneau and he was
afraid he would have to give it up.
He thought of his share in Freneau's
trickery and tie ugly look it would
have in court. He beat his fat head
for some clever lie that would explain
everything gracefully, but no inspira
ton came and he went to bed like
spanked and supperless child.
The next morning Mulry looked out
late upon the flood of sunlight gliding
the liquid emerald sea. The breakers
called TO him. He could not resist the
summons. He stole down a corridor
and along an unfrequented walk to
bathhouse. He unpeeled his clothes
and squeezed into bathing suit and
so made into the ocean. Friends of
his lolling on the beach said that the
water rose when he went in and fell
when he came out. But Mulry was
happy He wallowed and dived like a
porpoise till he was bissfully weary,
then he stretched himself on the sand
for an Oriental snooze.
He heard a voice that sounded ia
miliar He sat up. Gloria was com
ing along the beach directly toward
him. In her sea clothes she was an
approval of all eyes except Mulry's.
He did not make the mistake of the
| ostrich. He buried his entire self in
the sand and tried to hold his breath
till Gloria got past. Luck was against
him and she casually stepped on him
as she crossed his equator.
When she had gone, he exhumed
himself hastily and made for the water
to clear off the sand that loaded him.
Just as he set his toe in the first froth
| Gloria sighted him. He could tell by
her start that she recognized him. He
ran into the waves, she followed. He
dived through the first breaker and a
| second and a third. When he looked
| back she was not to be seen. He
| laughed and began to fioat-which was
| the easiest thing he did. Suddenly he
saw a red turban come through the
] wall of big billow. Under it appeared
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mobiles also cluttered the race course.
Now, Gloria gained and was about to
head off her man, when a messenger
boy on a wheel cut in ahead and it was
necessary for Gloria's chauffeur to
back pedal wildly or endure collision.
Mulry would shoot ahead and rejoice
at his triumph, only to find himself in
tangle OF pedestrians. His one
darby power machine began to feel the
effects of his bulky cargo. Mulry APP
piled gasoline in the form Of a dollar
bill brandished in front of popping,
white eyeballs, and that gave him the
advantage for a time. But even money
cannot furnish everlasting power, and
the heavy breathing back of him told
Mulry that his engine was about to die.
He looked back and saw that
Gloria's car had taken a wrong turn
and shot down another avenue. He
gave three silent cheers for himself.
Thus ended one Of the most blood
curdling rolling-chariot races since
Ben-Hur's day. Mulry paid his ex-
hausted man well and took the nearest
way to the cottage where he was guest.
He did not leave it that night, and it
was we'll, for Gloria hunted for him
everywhere.
She would not dance, though many
asked her. The music hurt her cruel
ly. She remembered how she had
wanted to dance that moonlit night SO
long ago, but had been put to bed by
her heartless governess. She remem-
bered how she had suffered till sne
could bear it no longer, and had risen
to dress in the dark and steal out,
leaving her governess ashore.
She had envied David his liberty and
had stolen the car that David brought
round so that he might take Judge
Freeman's daughter Lois for a moon
light spin-and spoon. Gloria had not
prevented David from marrying Lois,
and she had run herself into series
Of adventures that had promised every
thing wonderful only to stop short in
black disaster. Her poor, brave, pa
uent lover would dance no more, amile
at her no more. Love was gone from
her life already and she was only
twenty.
Frank Mulry did not dance that
night, either. He sat at his window,
listening to the music and wondering
how long this game Of hide and seek
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The life-saver thought she meant
that he was her husband. He thought
1t pity that so pretty a girl should
have so much husband. But he did as
he was told and hurried Mulry ashore
Gloria felt lonely and afraid when
the boat was gone. She wondered II
she could make the land. She did not
was beginning to droop and fail when
Royce appeared at her side and set
her hands on his strong shoulders. She
liked him better than she thought she
did. He swan magDificently. He saved
her and she was glad to be saved.
When at last she staggered ashore
and her father embraced her, wet as
she was she looked about for Mulry.
He was gone. The life-saver had re-
vived him and he had tottered away.
Gloria did not know whom he was
visiting. He was not in the hotel reg
listers. She did not know that he had
gone to his friends cottage, slammed
his clothes in his trunk and suitcase,
and returned North.
One of the picturesque features of
Palm Beach life Is the presence now
and then of Seminole Indians, who
come up from the everglades to sell
baskets and other samples of their
craft, rattlesnake skins, and trinkets
Of various sorts. Among those who
stood nffor;p ~ harootpc NJ tho cnrt uuarf
the young chief who wanted to marry
Gloria and the old squaw whose horse
Gloria had tried to steal. They recog-
nized her when they saw her wander.
ing slowly along looking for Mulry.
Gloria paused and stared at them
stopped to price souvenir of her cap
tivity. But she noted the wild glare
in the eye of the romantic peddler and
suddenly remembered her swarthy
sutton of five years ago. Her old fear
came back to her for the moment. She
her hand and compelled her to pause
She was hardly treasured by his soft
words.
Don't be 'fraid. Nice squaw, nice
squaw."
She could think Of nothing to say
He did the talking.
"Many years since squaw run off
You got husband YETI"
Gloria shook her head and sighed
The chief sighed, too-with relief. He
spoke grandiosely. GAN right. You
marry me nowY
Gloria was almost as much embar-
raised by this second proposal in the
Poinciana gardens as she had been by
the first in the everglades. She could
not imagine what to say. The chief
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Gloria's face. Mulry struck out to sea.
Gloria came crawling after. He was
astonished to see how well she swan.
But he swan well, too.
He wondered if he would have to
cross the Atlantic and he regretted the
necessity Of landing in Europe with his
bathing suit and nothing else. lie
was still at some distance from Europe
when he suddenly felt a twinge Of
pain in his anllle-then in his knee
In both knees. He was doubling up
with crampl He knew real fear now.
He looked back to shore and the far
off, misty crowd. He shouted for help.
Nobody heard him except Gloria, and
he placed no reliance in her.
She called to him, but he was past
answering. Gloria had been raised
an athlete and her brother David had
taught her how to rescue drowning
people. But her first practical demon
stration alarmed her She had not
counted ON so huge a barge to take in
tow
She set up a cry to shore. No one
heard her. No one missed her except
one man. Doctor Royce was looking
for her. That was not strange. He
was almost always looking for her or
at her. Pierpont did not know where
she was. David and Lois had no idea
of her whereabouts. She was not
among the crowds on the beach.
Royce stared out into the farther
waters. Sc saw her turban-or at
least he was afraid that it was hers.
He saw her put up her hand, though
he could not hear her cry.
He howled to the life-saver in the
boat and pointed to where Gloria swan
with one hand, the other clutching at
Mulry's collar. The life-saver bent to
the oars; the shallop slipped across
the waves and Royce plunged in and
swan with all his might, diving
through the white caps, cresting the
big rollers. The life-saver checked
his boat alongside Mulry, took him
from Gloria, hauled him over the stern
seat, and left him face down, heels in
air, while he offered his hand to
Gloria. Gloria shook her head. She
felt better for having saved life. She
underestimated the distance to shore.
She ordered the life-saver to make
haste with Mulry.
Take good care Of him." she shout
ed. "He belongs to me-
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The chief clutched II and looked
hard. The chiefs lip curled with scorn.
He laughed-almost.
Him? Humphl Him white liver
Him run That man there hand me
| big wallop. Ugh"
| Gloria was indignant. The chief de-
/, scribed with vivid pantomime and gut
| tural words the true history Of her
rescue, his own proposal of marriage,
| Glorias swooning with terror, FIRE.
neau's arrival, his terrified retreat be-
fore the chiefs advance. The struggle
| for the chiefs knife, and finally the
tremendous uppercut that had knocked
the chief. Meanwhile, during the
| fight, he had caught glimpses Of FIRE.
neaus hasty gathering up OF Gloria
and his escape with her, leaving Royce
to his fate.
| Gloria was aghast at the story. As
the chief went on with 1t Royce saun-
tered up and paused. The chief turned
on him and was about to attack him.
Royce fell into an attitude of self-1e-
Tense, but smiled and spoke soothingiy
and put out his hand The chief took
1t. He was a good sportsman and so
was Royce
| Gloria looked from Royce to the pic
ture of Freneau In her locket. A ter
rible doubt of Freneau assailed her.
She seized Royce by the arm and
dragged him to one side, demanding:
1T was you that saved me. Why
didn't you tell meT
Royce looked sheepish and shrugged
his shoulders. He did not know just
what to say. Gloria looked at the
locket with hideous new suspicion,
then turned and hurried away with
tears springing to her eyelids.
| Royce stared after her adoringly.
Gloria wandered far down the beach
alone. She was in hopeless frame of
mind. She dropped to the sand brood
ing over the crumbling Of her hero's
| glory. From the sea the ghost Of Ere
neau seemed to come to her and, kneel-
ing by her, take her in his arms. She
thrust him away, crying:
Coward Cad Liar!"
The ghost retreated sadly into the
sea. Gloria wept over the picture In
her locket.
Royce, coming along the beach, found
her. He knelt down at her side.
Gloria turned to him with the old ques-
| ton:
why didn't you tell me that 1t was
you who saved me, and not Dick?"
| Royce gaZed into her sad eyes pity
! ingly. He was unable to deal the death
blow to her trust in her dead lover.
He spoke gently.
1T was B'reneau that found you and
saved you. l arrived a little too late,
and l simply held off the Indian chief
while Freneau made sure of your
safety"
| Gloria studied him with longing to
believe ia F'reneau. He did not finch.
She thanked him and he rose sadly and
walked away. lie had lied to her be-
cause he loved her. But his heart was
almost bursting with protest against
the sacrifice.
| When he had gone, Gloria put out
ner arms to the sea, crying:
"Dick, Dick, forgive my suspicious
| and come back to me! p
| From the waves Freneau seemed to
come forth again and, sitting down be-
side her, take her in his arms. She
wept, then rose and accompanied by
his ghost, moved slowly and sadly
along the beach.
(TO BE CONTINUED
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crowded closer to her. Suddenly his
face hardened as he looked past her.
He clenched his fists and reached for
knife. Gloria followed his eyes and
saw Doctor Royce in the distance. She
wondered why the chief should hate
him. The chief explained with dogs
snarl.
"That man nearly kill me once. He
take you from me-"
Gloria pointed to Royce questioning
ly. The chief nodded. Gloria protested.
She would not permit the glory Of her
rescue to be taken from her dead love.
mo, no; 1t wasn't that man. It was
this one" she cried, and caught from
her gown little portrait Of Freneau
In a locket
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had no place among flying snowballs,
and dignity could not be kept up after
q bump on the ice.
Gloria found herself the victim of
the attentions Of large, jovial man
whose playfulness was little too
heavy for her liking. She was about
V snub him when comeone casually
alluded to him as Frank Mulry.
Gloria staggered in the snow at
zseeting thus by chance the man she
had tried in vain to overtake In town.
Nulry, never imagining who she was,
thought that she had slipped on the
scy snow he put out his hand to catch
her. Mulry was always ready Tor
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Dire Possibility.

Maybe it's lucky they didn't have
moving pictures when Shakespeare
wrote"
"Why?"
He'd probably have put Hamlet fn-
to the form of 's'nario' and left tbs
poetry out"
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Quito So.

what is the difference between q
horse track enthusiast and q strawbep.
~ growerT' So
Il suppose the principal differences
Is that while one Is trying to pick tl,e
winners the other Is trying to win ~
pickers"
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Preparednen

Billie always carries paraeAnn
about with him.
Jill--What fort
"Oh. he makes so many rash state
nents he wants to DO prepared b 1T
himself down easy"
Evening star., 1917-01-10

York was pivotal both parties believed,
and hence the strenuous play Of both
for its support. When Mr.. Hughes was
nominated the republicans felt that they
had put their best foot foremost; and
the result, so far as that state was con-
cerned, justified the judgment. He was
an easy winner over his opponent, who
lost, besides, his home state of New
Jersey.
New York remains, and will continue,
a very important political factor. There
are calculations to the contrary. In
deed, the Bryan boom for 1920 is sock
eted in the proposition that New York
is now permanently out of the presi-
Dental equation; that never again will
the state dominate either party in the
matter of the nominee; that both par
ties have escaped from an eastern thral-
dom, and in future will look more to
the west
This is comforting to Mr.. Bryan's fol-
lowers, for they well understand that
New York is, and will likely remain, be-
yond his reach. Nevertheless, they will
see New York exerting a powerful influ-
ence at both of the next national con-
ventions, and at the third also, if one
is held.
Evening star., 1917-01-10
District National Representation.

The Senate yesterday. by a tie vote,
decided not to submit the question of
District prohibition to the people of
Washington and passed the Sheppard
anti-saloon bill by decisive majority.
The measure now goes to the House
for action.
The Senate, having decided that Con-
gress will continue to enact vital local
legislation, without direct consultation
with the District, is under an additional
obligation to see that the District has
fair American representation in that
Congress.
In view of the expressions of opinion
in the debate by both opponents and
those who favored this particular refer
endum, concerning the right of the
Washingtonians to national representa-
tion, it is timely for the Senate to take
up and to act upon the Chamberlain
constitutional amendment, which gives
the people of the District the status of
representation in Congress and the elec-
toral college. Or, if the Senate is not
willing or does not think it wise at this
time to give to the people of the District
this status directly by constitutional
amendment, then at least it should ap-
prove and push for adoption the pro-
posed alternative constitutional amend
ment which simply gives to Congress
itself the power to raise the Washing
tonians to this status and to give them
this national representation at that time
in the future when Congress shall be
convinced that conditions in the Dis
trict entitle it to the benefit Of this en-
actment.
Surely in common fairness the Senate
District committee and the Senate itself
should at once approve an amended
Chamberlain amendment.
Evening star., 1917-01-10
Mysterious Russian Politics.

After the war is over no more inter
esting story will be told than that of
the successive ministerial changes in
Russia during its progress. That is, if
the full story is ever, learned. At present
the ministerial situation there, marked
by repeated changes climaxing in the
succession of Trepoff by Golitzine as
premier, stands as a profound mystery
to westerners. When Sturmer in No
vember was defeated in his peace in
trigue by a heavy vote in the duma Gen.
Trepoff was given the ministerial leader
ship. He Immediately declared that the
to stand united throughout the war was
unbroken and would not be broken. This
was accepted as direct reply to GER
tain intimations from Germany that
Russia might secure advantageous terms
of peace separately. 1t was looked upon
in the west as marking the downfall of
the pro-German influences in Russia.
But peace did not come in Russia's do
mestic affairs Almost at once the duma
was in turmoil. Either Trepoff was not
trusted or tine liberals were bent upon
playing politics. Now Trepoff has re-
signed-or has been forced out-and he
is succeeded by one who was born in
Prussia, though he bears distinctly
Slavic name. Nothing has as yet ap-
peared relative to his inclinations. A
new minister of the interior accom-
panies him into the ministry, the eighth
holder of that Office in fourteen months.
Whether the cabinet change has any con-
nection with the recent assassination of
the "mad monk" Rasputin, whose body
was found in the Neva, is not suggested.
But everything that happens in Russia
may be connected. It is futile to specu-
late now upon the tendency of affairs
there Apparently, however, there is no
anxiety in London, Paris and Rome re-
garding Russia's position in the war.
Evening star., 1917-01-10
The Public and Live Issues.

The brilliant and animated picture in
the Senate chamber yesterday was a
complete reply to the observation often
heard, that the American public is grow
ing Indifferent to public questions, and
thereby encouraging machine politicians
to work their will through the manipu-
lation of comparatively small portion
of the electorate.
The chamber was crowded. Both sides
had turned out in numbers. Those for
and those against a dry District; those
for and those against permitting an ex-
preston of the people on the question
at issue, looked down from the galleries
on large attendance on the floor. What
was said carried a tone of earnest con-
viction. Senators were inspired by the
attention they were receiving. Interest
was so keen, manifestations several
times obliged the chair to quote the
rules of the Senate in admonition.
If political meetings throughout the
country have of late years been thin
when important subjects were up, the
trouble has grown somewhat out of the
manner of their treatment by those Sc
lected to discuss them. Stumping has
become too much a matter of catch
phrases. The tariff, the trusts, the cur
rency, call for, but too seldom have re-
ceived, the services of those who have
specialized on the subjects; who, under
standing them themselves, are compe-
tent to explain them to others.
But what was demonstrated in this
town yesterday is demonstrable all over
the country. Given a subject of genuine
human interest and of everyday under
standing, and put up to discuss it pub
lie servants who from one side or the
other have looked into it, and the peo-
pie. men and women, flock to the dis
cussion, and sit, not only patiently, but
attentively, for hours while the differ
emit points by the opposing sides are
made.
The drys won the Senate fight by
vote of 55 to 80. A majority of the ma
jority were democrats. Is that not of
itself striking sign of very new timesa
And does it not lend force to the sug-
gestion of Senator Kenyon, that with
Mr.. Bryan in the field with prohibition
as his principal, almost his sole, topic,
the day is rapidly approaching when the
two leading political parties will have
to deal with it in their national cam
paigns' And should that day be as early
as 1920, we shall probably see con-
test exceeding in strenuousness and ex-
citement all that have gone before, and
causing new alignments of record char
acter, extent and effect.
Evening star., 1917-01-10
New York and the Presidency

Said the secretary of New York state
at Albany Monday, when the presiden
tial electors met to cast the electoral
votes of that state for Hughes and Fair
banks:
''Sinee 1856, the year of the birth of
the republican party, no election has
gone IN favor of party that has not
carried New York. with the exception
of 1868, 1876 and 1916"
Seymour and Grant were the oppos-
ing candidates in 1868. Gov. Seymour
did not desire his party's nomination
but yielded to draft. He was an ac-
eomplished man and astute politician
and probably foresaw the result. Gen
Grant was military hero, whose laurels
were fresh, and who had no political
record subject to attack He was the
idea! candidate for that day, and won
handily.
TiIden and Hayes were the opposing
candidates in 1876. the former easily
the strongest man in his party, the lat
giants in the republican party had been
eliminated in an acrimonious contest in
national convention. Blaine, Conkling
Bristow, Oliver p. Morton and Johr
Sherman went to the mat and all went
down, and Gov. Hayes, but little known
outside Ohio, was nominated. An elec
puted contest. gave the republicans &
majority of one in the electoral col
lege.
Last years contest was between a New
Yorker and a next-door neighbor. Mr.
Wilson, although unpopular with Tam
many, had many friends in New York
and that fact had its influence in the
nomination of Mr.. Hughes. That New