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ELEVENTH EPISODE
The Fugitive Witness.

Aroused from its winter sleep, Da-
vid's country house was aglow with
good cheer. Gloria, her father, Doctor
Royce, and David and Lois had come
up to play for a little. to throw off the
family tragedy and the formal duties
of their city life. and to forget them
selves boisterously in the open
For men and wornen resting In the
shadow of a crime they behaved
strangely like children turned out in
the yard tos play after a rainy days
Imprisonment. They ran through the
house shouting hilariously to one an
other as they found their skates and
wraps for a trip to the frozen swim
ming pool. The dogs added greatly to
the excitement by loud barkings of
Come on out" and by a remarkable
gift for getting in the way.
No n played harder than Gloria.
She was trying to convince the others
that she had put. the mourning Off her
mind as well as her body. She want
ed TO find out what her people were
~concealing from her. and why.
The Stafford family lark was soon
invaded by neighbors. A toboganning
party from another country house APP
3eared. There were no invitations or
snly mumbled words. for ceremony
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SYNOPSIS.

Pierpont Stafford. with his daughter
Gloria. is wintering at Palm Beach,
Gloria Is a viyacious but willful young
lady who chafes under the restraining
hand of q 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 OF
the Seminole Indians. She is rescued
and returned to her father. Gloria
falls in love with her rescuer, Frcneau,
Five years later she leave chool and
meets Freneau at the theater; he has
forgotten Gloria. Gloria feels that her
one dream is shattered. Later Freneau
p~ersuades her 10 forgive him. Gloria's
Jealous and Doctor Royce discovers in
her an ally. Doctor Royce warns FIRE.
neau, Freneau goes sleighing with
Gloria. II results in pneumonia for
Gloria, whose family becomes incensed
at Freneau when they learn the truth.
Royce Is to alleviate Gloria's
he approaches Pierpont Stafford for d
loan. Doctor Royce again warns Free
neau of his conduct. But Lois. learning
OF Freneau's betrothal TO Gloria, threat
ems him with dire punishment. Her
hu6band. Gloria's brother David. be-
comes suspicious. Freneau driven TO
desperation by Lois threats agrees TO
spend a week with her In the CatskIlls.
He plans to have Mulry send Gloria q
bunch CO kilograms. Lois husband
threatens to. kill a After Free
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 n
telegram, followed by a letter. comes
from Frcneau. She replies but her tele-
grams are returned. The FIRST morning
she is allowed from her room, she acct
IDENTIFY sees the supposed suicide of Free
neau reported In the paper. Then Clio
ria swears to ind the murderer of her
lover. Royce, becomes alarmed and
Stafford. Together they seek to pre-
vent scandal from enveloping Gloria.
She accuses them in her mind OF con-
spiracy against her. Gloria sets about
10 run down Freneau's murderer.
Royce warns Mulry to tell Gloria moth
ing. Gloria calls on Mulry there
sees Lois who also is worried. Gloria's
suspicious are aroused. Royce endeav-
ors to- show her the difficulty she faces.
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The me-saver thought she meant
that he was her husband. He thought
it a 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 if
she could make the land. She did not
really care, her life was too sad. She
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 magnificently. 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 offering bargains of the sort were
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.
She did not recognize them at first and
stopped to price a 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
started to escape. The chief clutched
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 yet?"
Gloria shook her head and sighed.
The chief sighed, too-with relief. He
spoke grandiosely. GAN right. You
marry me now"
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. TIE 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. He
was still at some distance from Europe
when he suddenly felt a twinge Of
pain In his ankle-then In his knee
in both knees. He was doubling up
with eramp! He knew real fear now.
He looked back to shore and tine fur
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 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. Pierpoat 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 1t was hers.
He saw her put up her hand, though
he could not hear her cry.
He howled to the hfe-saver In the
boat and pointed to where Gloria swan
with n 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 ~lfe-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 o life. She
nnderestimated the distance r. shore.
She ordered the l~ife-saver I, make
haste with Mulry.
Take good care Of him." she shout
ed He belongs to me-"
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would last. lie was tempted to go out
and surrender 10 this young girl who
was stalking him with such relentless
stealth.
But he thought of the money her ia
ther had given to Freneau and he was
afraid he would have tt give II up.
He thought of his share in Freneau's
trickery and the ugly look it would
have in court. He beat his fat head
for some clever lie that would explain
everything gracefully, but no inspira-
tion came and he went TO bed like a
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. lie stole down a corridor
and along an un~frequented walk to a
b~athhouse. He unpeeled his clothes
and squeezed into a bathing suit and
so made into the ocean. Friends of
his loIling 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 diyed like d
porpOise till he was blissfully weary,
then he stretched himself on the sand
for an Oriental snOoze
He heard n voice that sounded ia
miliar. He sat up. Gloria was com-
ing along the beach directly toward
him. In her sea clothes she was a
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 q
and a third. When he looked
she was not to be seen. He
and began to fioat-which was
the easiest thing he did. Suddenly he
q red turban come through the
wall of q big billow. Under it appeared
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mobiles also cluttered the race course.
head off her man, when q messenger
boy on a wheel cut In ahead and 1t 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
a tangle Of pedestrians. His one
darby power machine began TO feel the
effects of his bulky cargo. Mulry up.
piled gasoline In the form OF a dollar
bill brandished In front or popping,
white eyeballs, and that gave him the
advantage for q time. But wen 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 a well and took the nearest
way to the cottage where he was guest.
He did not leave it that night, and 1t
was web, for Gloria hunted for him
everywhere.
She would not dance. though many
asked her. The music hart her cruel.
ly. She remembered how she had
wanted to dance that moonllt night SO
long ago. but had been put to bed by
her heartless govcrness. She remem-
bcrcd how she had suffered TIL sne
could bear II no longer, and had risen
to dress in the dark and steal out,
leaving her g%overness a-snore.
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 q moon
light spin-and spoon. Gloria had not
prevented David from marrying Lois,
and she had ruin herself Into a series
Of adventures that had promised every
thing wonderful only to stop short In
blnck disaster. Her poor. brave, pa
Rtient lover would dance no more, smile
mt 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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lover, who had escaped the dangers of
the jungle, had been slain on River
side drive; her romance had ended in
vanity and despair.
She found the pleasure paradise al
most the same.
A little more gorgeous, perhaps, but
all the glOomier for that. She had
come from the white winter of the
North into the sudden July Of Florida.
and her heart ached anew remembering
how love had bloomed in her life UNI
der the tropical sun Of Freneau's eyes.
1t was like going over an old album of
souvenirs to revisit the scenes of that
far-of yesterday. The same throngs
seemed to be dancing the same dances,
bounding through the same waves, still
slipping their tea under the palms in
the royal gardens Of the Poinciana.
She had almost forgotten her pur-
pose in coming here when she caught
sight of Frank Mulry's broad back.
He was rolling along briskly. She
did not know that he had caught sight
of her first and made off in disgust
and amazement at her discovery of
his new retreat.
She dared not run after him and
she could not keep pace with him. She
lost him in the maze of the bazaars.
Later she saw him riding in one of
the rolling chairs propelled by dar-
kies on wheels-the familiar "afromo-
biles" Of Palm Beach.
Poor Mulry was winded by his speed
and he wanted to get to his hosts cot
tage. But he caught a glimpse of
Gloria, also chartering an automobile.
his horror her automobile made
bis. He dared not put back 10
his hotel. He ordered his driver to
turn down q powered path and to give
him all the steam the black could af-
ford.
The motorman was vigorous, but the
passenger vas heavy. Gloria was light,
but her African was weak. 1t was any
body's race with every prospect of a
spill for one jockey or the other, since |
the paths were filled with dawdling
strollers and the bicycle had come
back into fashion. Everywhere wom-
en- In exquisite dresses were rowing
about on pedals. Dozens of other afro
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The chief clutched 1t and looked
hard. The chiefs lip curled with seorn.
He laughed-almost.
Him? Humph! Him white liver!
Him run! That man there hand me
big wallop. Ughw
Gloria vas indignant. The chief de-
scribed with vivid pantomime and gut
tural words the true history of her
rescue, his own proposal of marriage.
Gloria'S 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 Ere
neau's 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 it Royce sauu-
tered up and paused. The chief turned
on him and vas about to attack him.
Royce fell into an attitude of self-de-
Tense, but smiled and spoke soothingly
and put out his hand. The chief took
it. 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: ;
ut was You that saved me. Why
didn't you tell me?' ,
Royce looked sheepish and shrugged
his shoulders. He did not know just
what to say. Gloria looked at the
loeket 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 a 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 Ler, 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 ones
ton:
why didn't you tell me that it a
you who saved me, and not Dick?"
Royce gazed into her sad eyes pity.
lngly. He was unable to deal the death
blow to her trust In her dead lover.
He spoke gently.
1t was Freneau that found you and
saved you. / arrived a little too late.
and | simply held off the Indian chief
while Freneau made sure OF pour
safety"
Gloria studied him with a longing to
believe in Freneau. He did not finch.
thanked him and he rose sadly and
walked away. He had lied to her be-
u he loved her. But his heart was
almost bursting with protest against
the sacrifice. /.
hen he had gone, Gloria put out
her arms TO the sea, crying:
Dick, Dick, forgive my suspicious
n come back to mel"
From the waves Freneau seemed RI
come forth again and, sitting down he
side her, take her I'm his arms. She.
wept, then rose and accompanied by
MS ghost, moved slowly and SADLY
along the beach.
tTo 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
a knife. Gloria followed his eyes and
saw Doctor Royce in the distance. She
wondered why the chief should hate
him. The chief explained with a dogs
snarl.s
"That man nearly kill me once. He
take you from me-"
Gloria pointed to Royce questioning
". The chief nodded. Gloria protested.
She would not permit the glory OF her
rescue 20 be taken from her dead love.
mo, no; It wasn't that man. 1t was
this one," she cried, and caught from
her gown a little portrait Of Freneau
In q locket.
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Dire Possibility.

Maybe It's lucky they didn't have
moving pictures when S-hakesnears
wrote"
"Whyy"
He'd probably have put Hamlet In.
to the form of a 's'nario' and left the
poetry out"
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Quite So.

/. VIVA Is the difference between =
horse track enthusiast and a strawher.
ry grower?"
\ suppose the principal difference
Is that while n is trying to pick the
winners tho other Is trying to win the
pickers."
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Preparedness.

Bii-He always carries a parachuts
about with him.
Jill-What for?
"Oh, he makes so MANY rash state.
men's ne wants to be prepared to let
himself duwn easy"
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TUNGSTEN PLOT BLOCKED
Federal Agents Break Up Conspiracy to
Export Valuable Metal

New York. "A plot to export
tungsten, metal used to harden
steel, from this country on board
the Scandinavian-American liner
United States, in violation of the
espionage act and President Viii
sons proclamation. was baked
bv federal agents with the arrest
here today of three men. Illicit
export of metal, presumably for
Germany, has been going on for
some time, the United States at.
torney announced Harold A.
Content, United States district
attorney, declared that the break
ing up of the plot is equivalent
to the sinking of 10 German sub
Marines"
The Carlisle independent. (Carlisle, Ark.) 1905-current, 1917-10-18
HOMESTEADERS' BENEFIT
Requirements Will Be Less Strict Dur.
ing the War

Washington. Various kinds of
exemptions from the regular re-
quirements imposed on public
land claimants were made on &C
count of the war in the legisla-
ton enacted at the recent ses
sion of Congress. First, Congress
suspended the time honored re
quirements that all homestead
settlers shall reside on their
claims before acquiring title and
changed the law so that the time
served in any military branch of
the government shall be counted
at full value as part of the three
years. The requirement that Ger
tain improvements should be
made within a given period was
suspended for the duration of the
war. The law requiring desert
land entrymen to irrigate Ger
tain amount of his lands was held
in allegiance and other require
ments suspended. All of these
are for men engaged in the war.
Another new law provides that
aft davitS as to public land mat
tiers that ordinarily have to be
made before local land officials
may be made by those serving
abroad before their commanding
officers, United commissioners
or American consuls.
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LIBERTY BOND INTEREST
Local Postmasters Will Cash Coupons,
Burleson Announces

Washington. To obtain inter
est on Liberty Bonds when due
will be as sim pie and convenient
as calling for ones mail, Post
master General Burleson today
announced in a letter to Secre-
tary McAdoo.
A bondholder may receive in
terest by merely presenting his
coupons, or treasury warrants
issued in payment OF interest on
registered bonds, to any post
master. They will he cashed i'm
mediately. Postmasters will be
REIN bursed from Washington for
all coupons and warrants which
they cash.
The postmaster general has is
sued special instructions to post
masters tc honor both coupons
and warrants upon presentation.
The United States ii easury,
sub-treasuries and banks, also,
will pay interest when due, as
heretofore.
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U. OF A. SAMMY ONE OF FIRST In
EUROPE

Fayetteville, Oct. LIP. X.
Rice a graduate of the College of
Engineering of the University of
Arkansas, and now a member of
Co. B.. Tenth Regiment Railroad
Engineers, American Expedition
airy force was in the first Ameri
can regiment to land on British
soil. Mr.. Rice has just been
elected professor of Experimen-
tai Electrical engineering in
State College of Pennsylvania, to
be effective on his return from
war. Mr.. Rice's home is in Ben
tonvilie.
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PLENTY OF OIL, HE SAYS
Will Last Until End of World, Declares
Noted Geologist

Chicago.-There is Oil enougL
to last until the world comes to
an end, according to Professor
j. A. Halderman, geologist, who
last night addressed the Inde-
pendent Oil Manufacturers AS
sociatiol at their annual conven-
ton here. Mr.. Halderman de
clined to predict whom the world
will end or how much oil there is,
but said that there is far too
much for any one of the present
day to worry about the amount.
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Why Not Strike Oil?

Oil experts think we have Oil
and gas here. We may have it.
and we may not. No one on earth
can tell without drilling for it,
and it takes $4,000 10 SIS, 900
per well to hunt for it,
Many fortunes have been
spent prospecting for oil and
many have been made by it. 1t
is big chance game.
One company spent about $780,
900 drilling here and failed.
Another company has been in
duced to come and investigate
this territory. They think it a
good territory to prospect in, and
Say they are willing to spend
$50, 900 or 5000 drilling here if
the land owners will give them
lease on the land in a certain ter.
ritory. But if the land owners
will not lease this territory the
! oil company will stay where they
are and spend their money in
other fields. The biologists tell
US that there is plenty of oil in
the ground but it takes money to
find it.
This new company say they
are ready to begin when the
leases are secured, so it seems to
be up to the land owners as to
whether or not we can have an
other test made.
Shall we get together and do it
nov, or wait another thousand
years, for if there is oil down
there it has been there a long
time. -DeValls Bluff Democrat
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