The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1917-02-08

his conquests appeared. Nell TRASH
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 whis-
pered to Nell that he would reach
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 Freneau
to warn him, but that might only lead
him to prosecute her father. Perhaps
If she begged him 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
gushing to endure.
When the valet opened Freneau's
door, Nell slipped past him and ran
straight to Freneau. He could not
even pretend the ordinary c~ourtesies.
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 a violet, she bloomed
to be trodden on or plucked for q
moment and tossed aside. She driftcS
back to the shabby barge moored as
the dock and waited for her father ~
return home"
Freneau, raging aaa calling himse.I
q fool, drove his arms into the over
coat his man held for him and lerr
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 a poor business.
All this while Gloria lay in her bed
by the window imagining that Freneau
was pining away for her, while she
was getting well as East as she could
for him. Doctor Royce's treatment
consisted mainly IN keeping out OF
the way Of nature, helping it, but nos
impeding it with drugs. Gloria was
responding with all the rush of youth.
He was glad of his success as a physi-
clan, but he was miserable over her
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 her
room and at him in ~bewilderment, he
understood that she had come out OF
the dream realm.
ooh, such a wonderful dream I've
had. I dreamed l was well-all Of a
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 and
over the roofs and climbed down the
chimney of Dicks apartment house
like a regular Santa Claus.
Then l came out through the steam
AouidIOA WiSnOuI CN0u IuulpllHR 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
ioated with him through the wall and
across the roof to the darlingest little
church. Tho dariingcst little minister
floated through the pulpit and then
dog OF It'll had to go and wake up
But wasn't It q beautiful dream?"
beautiful" groaned Doctor Royce.
She was too happy to hear the SOY.
row In his voice. She merely ex-
claimed: Hurry up. for heavens
sake, and get me WELL"
And, like a dutiful young physician,
he promised. But he wondered wheth-
ar 1t was kindness or not to restore
her to the world where dreams do not
often como true-unless they are bad
dreams.