Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1917-01-02
N0velized From the Motion Picture Play
of the Same Name by George Kleine

Wak0 ptGSG AZ ttH uC ouOuAQ UAf iOf
a certain person whom he had rem
dered violently jealous when who
should step Of OF the shop but Lois
Freeman,
Each stared at the other with eyes
ready for Irritation. Each recognized
the other as q former Palm Beach
comper. 4s t.E
Why. Mr.. Freneau! was Lois ex
ciamaticI Her language was not sc
brilliant as her eyes.
why, Miss Freeman was nii
feel the emotional demands or a
grown oma She could put FIRE.
neau's picture on her bureau and find
satisfaction in paying IL worship.
In the school she had discovered a
new world. She fought her way to
the captaincy or a basketball team as
II 1t were the presidency OF an ANA
zonian republic. She learned 10 fence
well and to box q little. She even
took an interest In some OF her text
books
She thought she was very wicked.
but she did nothing more vicious than
hoi6 a chatting dish orgy now and
then in her room.
Gloria had few sorrows OF import
ance. beyond the occasional disap-
pointnent her examination records
gave her. The chief Of her disappcint-
ments was her brothers marriage to
Lois. She never had liked Lois and
had pavar nndarufnnH har oharu
Lois had taken little interest in
winning the approval OF women. She
had played q part in winning even
Davii's serious interest. She never
cared for him. but she could not re-
sist the wealth and prestige OF his
name. She was bitterly disappointed
in him when after the honeymoon
was Owe he expressed his unwilling
ness to live on his fathers money and
vowed that he would carr his own
way by his own energy. The life OF
travel and gayety that Lois had
planned was taken from her.
Gloria had a staunch little heart and
she kept her word to her father. She
kept faith. too. with her iance five
years removed. She fell into the habit
Of talking TO his photograph. When
she was tempted TO forget that she
was a solemuly hetrcthed young per-
son she would find strength In his
image 10 be austere and 70 deny her
self many OF the gayeties OF the school
or o. her companions in the
resting places where she spent her
vacations.
IL was a quaint and bitter irony
that the eyes in Freneau's photograph
shcu.d ave had so pious an influence.
while MS own Eyes were devoted TO
casting such evil spells.
Unccnsciously Lois revenged ner
husband on Freneau, for while Ere
nesu vas causing Lois to forget hor
duties to the partnership she had en-
terec into with David Stafford her fas-
c%inations led Freneau 10 neglect his
duties TO his partnership with Frank
Mulry. lie spent time and money on
Lois that should have been devoted
to the intricate stratagems-not TO
say treasons and spoils-of Wall
street
He and Mulry In the flush of their
early successes had spread out-had
established branch Offices in Albany,
Buffalo, Cleveland. Detroit, Chicago.
st. Louis and Pittsburgh While the
tide set their way these branches
served as so many hands to gather in
shekels. But when the hard times
came upon the financial world they
served as Ed many mouths to feed
The Office OF Freneau & Mulry be-
cane n OF those dismal places
whore the pay roll is a weekly agony
and where the w~atchword is every
thing going out and nothing coming
in.
When Freneau at last awoke 70 real
ize that bankruptcy instead or plutoc-
racy was likely to be his portion he
turned back to his work with a des-
perate energy And now Lois found
that ne was as fierce an office man as
her husband. He had engagements
when she was lonely.
She naturally imputed his neglect to
some other charmer. She could not
believe him guilty OF overwork. She
grew jealous and their meetings were
stormy. She kept his telephone busy
to make sure that he was at his desk.
She began to annoy him. He wished
10 be rid Of her. but she would not
be Tilted
1t was during this crisis that Gloria
marked off the last month OF her FIVE
years ordeal. She was ambitious
enough to go on and finish her course
and get her diploma. She compressed
her last year OF schooling into half q
year and graduated all alone in mid
winter.
She dashed into her room at college
for the last time. with her solemn
mortar5oard askew on her head, her
s,Esber black gown flying from her
shoulders. and in her hand her parch-
ment diploma Tin Latin that she could
nearly translate). She looked like =
little Portia for a moment.
She threw her diploma In air and
her mo~rtarboard after 1t. She whipped
on hei black robe and began to juggle
school bopks. letting them fall where
they fell. tSho danced q iig over her