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-y MD>Mßf. RUPERT HUfflE? Novelized From the Motion Picture Play of the Same Name by George Kleine Copyright, 1916, by Adelaide M. Hughes Dick perceived her shyness and di once, ordered her covered with many Dick perceived her shyness and di vined the cause at once. He must speak now. He would never have a better chance, he thought. Putting down his cup, he reached across the table for her hand. "Gloria, dear little Gloria,'' he sighed, "my five years of probation are up. I've waited patiently and always hopefully. Mayn't I have my reward now? Please say that you will marry me quickly and put me out of my misery, will you?'' Gloria could not answer. She hung her pretty head and wriggled back a little farther into the grandfather's chair. Perhaps she did not want to end the luxury of keeping him anxious with a too immediate yes. He would not dally. He picked up the little table that stood between them and putting it aside dropped on one knee before her, like the true artist in love that he was. He clasped his arms about her and she closed her eyes and gave him her lip3. They heard the untimely hostess ap proaching and he sat back in his chair, twirling his mustache, while Gloria tried to look as if nothing had hap pened. Nothing had happened except a short flight to heaven. On the way home they chattered merrily of the everythings that would make up their new life. The scenery was the same, yet how different ! They were betrothed now. For many rea sons Freneau was impatient to have her father's sanction to their engage ment as soon as possible. Gloria de cided that she would drive him home Fit!) her and beard her parent in his She Became Suddenly Timid and Embarrassed. isfir wTESöül delay. *•••••• Pierpont Stafford waa not nnpre pered for the "Will you let me marry your daughter?" speech that Richard Vtaneaumade him. He had given his own word five years before that if Fre neau and Gloria found themselves in the same frame of mind at this date he would Taise no further objections. He gave up the fight now, and fook hie defeat like the true sport he was, gra donaly concealing his own aad heart The radiance of hlf child aad the evident sincerity of Freneau almost re paid him; at least they made him hopeful for her happiness. One stlp only he Insisted upon, that the engagement should not be made pub lie et once. He knew that engage ments were not necessarily certain to end in marriage, and he wanted to test Freneau à little further. He'Insisted npon guarding his daughter's name to that extent If anything went wrong with them they should not have to take the great American public into the secret, the more readily since it would give him the more time to propitiate and get rid of Lois. And old Trask might have to be given his quietus in one way or another. y While Freneau and her father held their council of war Gloria had gone out to the hall to wait its outcome. There Freneau found her huddled up on the lower step, hugging herself as if she were cold. He rushed to take bar in his arms for a kiss. She bat tled him with mock resistance, before she ran up the stairs to play Juliet to his Romeo. Then, throwing kisses, they parted. When she reached her room Gloria found herself shivering with a violent chill that all the warmth of her heart could net subdue. Burroughs was in stantly alarmed. She summoned Gloria's father, who was even more alarmed. .He made, her go to bed at Freneau agreed to this, ; ' i I i ! I once, ordered her covered with many blnnkets, and had hot-water bottles filled. The chill did not abate. In a panic he telephoned from Gloria's own room to his old family physician, Doctor Wakefield, and was fortunate enough to reach him and be assured of his immediate attendance. Doctor Wake field was a fussy medical man of the very old school. He had taken good care of the Stafford family, but lat terly he had let science outrun him. Still he recognized pneumonia without difficulty. He whispered the dreadful word to Stafford and ordered in twe trained nurses and no end of medi cines. Pierpont Stafford was frantic with anxiety. He telephoned for Gloria's brother and for Aunt Hortensia. Bur roughs told them'of the stolen sleigh ride and Freneau became less popular with the Staffords, father and son, than ever before. Days and nights of harrowing fear dragged over that household. Wealth had not dulled affection, nor could it seem to bribe death. The fever line mounted on the.nurso's chart like a mountain side, and Gloria grew weak er, except in her deliriums, when she seemed to bo inhabited by demons of j ferocious strength. ; At length David felt that Doctor Wakefield had been given all the time to experiment with Gloria's life that could be afforded. He was for calling in a young man of the newest school of medical art. He called for Doc tor Royce. Royce came with no hesi tation over medical ethics or cour tesles. Gloria was more' than à pa tient to him, and old Wakefield was less than a doctor in his eyes, after he had questioned the Staffords as to the manner of Doctor Wakefield's treatment Things were, as be feared, all wrong. It was life or death. Doc tor Wakefield could not cope with the disease. He must be dispossessed as politely as possible. Doctor Wakefield, he learned, was In the sickroom above. Royce would not mince matters or wait on professional etiquette. He felt the eagameas of a lover in coming once more to ths rescue of his idolized Gloria. He ran up the stairs and walked Into the room. He hardly knew hia Gloria when he saw her. She was In the throes of a wild delirium. She Imag ined herself once more among the Semtnoles who had held her in bond age when she ran away in Florida five years before. In her tormenting fancy she was again dressed as a squaw and set to ° f ,f therinR firewood and subjected to the worse task of endur ing the old squaw's hatred and the young chief's Jove. She begged him to kill her rather than marry her, and she fought with all her fury, seizing ; Wakefield's white hair with one hand ' and the nurse's black locks with the other. There was no quieting her outcries, "Take me home; my father is rich! He will make you rich ! Oh, they don't believe me! Help! Help!" Then she smiled and cried: "Dick, Dick, it's you! You'll save me! Blessed, beloved Dick! Oh I'm so glad, so glad you found me!'' Then the frenzy left her and she sank back exhausted, but content. Doc tor Royce realized that he had two antagonists now to fight—Death and Richard Freneau—both of them try ing to take from hin) tho girl of hit heart, Dë'àth was the first to fight. Royce was too desperate to treat Doctor Wakefield with much formality. He asked a few questions which roused the ire of the old physician. He ex amined the patient, threw off the smothering blankets and exclaimed, "Fresh air is the best and only treat ment for pneumonia." He flung up the window, shoved Gloria's bed against it, and let the cold air from the river sweep into the room and into her tormented lungs. Almost at once her breathing be came less labored. Doctor Wakefield left in as dignified a rage as he could manage. Royce threw away all tho Wakefield medicines and gave the nurse a new set of instructions. The nurse, at least, whom Doctor Wake field had prescribed, seemed a capa ble one. Royce welcomed her as a valuable aid in tho gruesome fight. He arranged to stay all night, and al layed poor old Stafford's fears as best he could. But his own head was near to breaking with terror for the safety j of Gloria's sweet life—and for her hap- j piness if she livéd. (TO BE CONTINUED.) Half Open Jewel Boxes. They whom we speak of as dead have their own work to do and their own life to live, so perhaps they don't think of us every moment. But surely we've only to call. They may not sea us in the flesh, any more than we can see them in the spirit; but it came to me whén I was very close to the other side, that our bodies don't in i close us quite. We're half-open jewel : boxes, that let out flashes of emerald i or sapphire or diamond light, accord i ing to the strength of our vibrations, if you like.—From "Where the Path Breaks," by Charles de Crespigny. 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