Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1920-01-16
For
Loves Sake
~
By T. B.

A crushing blow had come to Eloise
Burley, and she had gone down IN
der 1t like q frail child overcome by a
resistless storm. Motherless when her
father died, there was only her broth
er Adrian to look to. VINO had been
given control of the family estate. He
was unmarried, had not yet sown all
his wild oats, and there were no rela-
tives where Eloise could find a home.
Adrian suggested to her that she put
in two years at a boarding school for
girls.
Ransome Hall was ideal in its me-
mage and selectness, and Eloise was
content, fairly happy in her new life.
She made true friends among her girl
associates. When vacation came a
chum, Milly Thorne, invited her to
spend two months at her home in the
college town, and time went pleasantly
enough except that Eloise never saw
her brother. He wrote to her occa-
sionally and provided her with spend
ing money, but some intelligence had
NOAuC " LlOAoC III q IOuuudDOub way
that considerably distressed her. It
seemed that the brother of her school
chum, Dudley Thorne, had business In
Cedarville, the town where the Bur-
leys had lived. He had been intro
duced to Eloise. The similarity Of her
to inquiries and he had said to his
sister:
"That brother of hers is going at a
fast rate. He is at heart a generous,
~good-natured fellow, and that fact &C
counts for his reckless extravaganza.
1t is not so much drink as it is cards,
speculation and a constant whirl Of ex-
element among a set who are leading
him into all kinds of s%pendthrift ways,
particularly a sordid-hearted siren
named Beatrice Morse. A PITY That
sister of his is the most charming girl
l have ever met.
Apparently there Dudley Thorne
dropped the subject from his thoughts,
although he prolonged his home stay,
because a part of each day 1t was pos
sible for him to be in the company of
his sisters attractive friend. He had
finally set a fixed date as the limit
of his stay. 1t was the evening preced-
ing his announced departure that
Eloise observed him reading in the gar
den, and approached him. There was
nervous anxiety depicted in her face.
"Mr. Thorne," she said, "you have
told Milly just enough to alarm me
about my brother. / have suspected
something wrong for many months. He
never comes to see me, his letters
show a change in him that alarms
me. Won't you tell me all about him,
and won't you help him If he is in
trouble?
Dudley was silent for a moment or
two. He reflected deeply. With that
fair, pleading face before him, he had
not the heart to crush faith and hope.
A sudden inspiration came to him.
Miss Burley, it would be unwise
and unkind for me to retail to you Cos
sip which has reached me-the true
merits of which may be at entire va
rance with the truth. Will you trust
me when I promise to learn all that is
truth, to act as a friend in behalf OF
your brother and save him from his
rash, reckless ways? Win you further
Danish all worry and care regarding
him until I come to report to you some
thing ~reassuring, which I firmly believe
I will be able to do before the month
is ended?"
There were tears in her eyes as she
placed both Of her hands in his will
ing own and sobbed forth brokenly:
81 know that I can trust in you ut
terly!"
1t was the next day when Dudley en-
tered a house given over mainly as a
boarding place for members of the dra'
matte fraternity. He sought out and
found Arthur Gride, the man he was
looking for.
"Still playing The Prince Of AID.
v~enturers', Gride?" inquired Dudley.
81 am not. That brilliant fascc
went by the board two weeks ago."
"Can 1 engage you for its princi
pal part for a few weeksT
The handsome, reckless actOr re
garded his old acquaintance with q
ouizzical smile. three meals a day
in it2" he asked.
"Oh, better than thati"
I'm your mani"
And then there vas a long confer
ence, and two days later Arthur Gridt
put up at a hotel at Cedarville as Vim
cent Burgoyne, "son and heir Of
wealthy English baronet. and flashed
gems and cash galore. He was a fl
match for the scheming adventures:
who had cast a spell over Adrian Bur
ley, and was to have married him with
in a week. The new admirer played
his part so well that within a weel
Burley was summarily dismissed a
victim and fiance. He took the lessor
hard. and dissipated to drown his trou
bles. This led to a fit of sickness ant
Dudley so arranged it that he was tax
en- to a hospital at the school tow
where his sister could visit him, often