Show Read it in in the he Sunday Telegram and d see sea the Uhe he RO W- W ANCE I story acted in m In pictures at the American theatre I I II with Billie Burke The eleventh episode willbe shown at the Rex theatre today and tomorrow v. By MR AND MRS RUPERT HUGHES Synopsis o of Preceding Instalments I Gloria sweet sixteen daughter of a wealthy banker spends a vacation in Florida with her father and brother David and during a lonely joy ride is captured by some Indians in the Florida everglades des Dr Royce foyce a friend matrimonially inclined Chief but she Is of the family rescues her from a condition to her parent by Freneau who comes upon restored in fainting a the scene n and claims the honor He wants her for his bride but Stafford will not consent to his daughters daughter's marriage because of her youth and he sends her to college At the end of her schooling the two meet again and Gloria Is still in infatuated in in infatuated with the fortune hunter who is now on the verge of financial ruin rum and lays his hope in Gloria and the Stafford millions His suit is is blocked by Stafford Royce and Lois a former sweetheart On a stolen winter sleigh ride with Freneau Gloria contracts pneumonia not however before she has consented to marry Freneau Freneau attempts to borrow from I and is refused Lois fearing the loss of Freneau inveigles him into a promise to leave with her for a secreted nook in in the Catskill mountains Her husband keeps watch on her and Freneau gives his partner letters to mail for him in an effort to deceive Gloria Gloria into believing he is taking a business trip Freneau is threatened a bargeman swearing swearing swearing swear swear- ing revenge for his daughters daughter's betrayal and when the girl visits him she is thrown into the tho street Freneau bids Gloria to meet Lois at the trysting monument and on hl his hi way is knocked down under a street lamp by bya a skulking figure frightened away by the appearance of a man in in evening I clothes who searches Freneau's clothes and takes a bundle of letters from his pocket Gloria is a witness from her window and recounts her story to tor Dr r. r Royce and the nurse who search vainly for the body The letters continue continue continue con con- to arrive from different cities but Gloria is unable to locate Freneau at any of the hotels the letters are mailed from She reads of his death in the papers and swears to find his murderer Stafford now acquainted with the hidden character of Freneau stops I IGloria Gloria when she tries to tell the police what she knows knows of the murder Gloria is nearly distracted but her desire for revenge has as not abated During the course of her investigations Gloria half unearths the hidden character of Freneau and the letter conspiracy comes omes to light In order to determine Lois' Lois part in the life of Freneau Gloria accepts accept her invitation to visit Davids David's farm ELEVENTH INSTALMENT THE FUGITIVE WITNESS Aroused from its winter sleep Davids David's David's Davids Da Da- vid's country house was aglow with good cheer Gloria her father Dr I Royce and David and Lois had come I up to play for a little to throw off 1 1 and the formal I the family tragedy j duties of their city life and to forget forget forget for for- get them boisterously in the open For men and women resting in the I shadow of a crime they behaved i strangely like children turned out out out-in In Inthe inthe the yard to play after a rainy days day's im im- im- im They ran through the house shouting hilariously to one another another another an an- I other as they found they sl skates ates and wraps for a trip to the frozen swimming swimming swimming swim swim- ming pool The dogs added greatly I to the excitement by loud of Come on out and by a n. remarkable remarkable remark remark- able gift for getting getting- in the wa way No one played harder than Gloria I She was trying to convince the others that she had put the mourning off her I mind as well as her body She wanted to find out what her people were concealing from her and why i The Stafford family lark was soon invaded b by neighbors A toboggan toboggan- ning party from another country house appeared There were no invitations or only mumbled words for ceremony had no place among flying snowballs and dignity could not be kept up after I a bump on the ice Gloria found herself the victim of attentions of a large Jovial mian niran whose pla playfulness was a little too I heavy for her liking She was about to snub him when someone casually alluded to him as Frank Franl Gloria staggered in the snow at meeting thus by chance the man she I had tried in vain to overtake in town never imagining who i she was thought that she had slipped on the icy snow lie He put out his his' hand to catch her was always ready for flirtation Preparedness was motto Gloria studied him a l moment This i j was the partner of her murdered lover I He was too amiable of mien to be accusable of such a crime She acquitted acquitted acquitted ac ac- ac- ac quitted him of wishing to do away with Freneau In fact the papers said that Freneau's death had nearly wrecked the firm did not look bankrupt Gloria did not know that her father had given a large sum of money to Freneau a few days clays before before before be be- fore his death and that was living on that There was a shifty flippancy in 1 eyes and manner that made Gloria distrust him She felt a little lit I tie tle added distrust of her dead lover for having such a man ratan as a partner The hateful proverb about birds of ofa I a feather ran through her mind like a tune In any case here at last was the man she sought and she was Impatient to question him There were too many people on the crest of the hill to permit of conversation there So she dared him to a toboggan toboggan gan ride lie He accepted She got aboard and he steered They swooped like a descending descending de do- airship But at the foot of the hill the toboggan careened and slid them deep into the drift before it capsized for all his bis bulk was agile and he was soon helping Gloria to her feet Thank you a million times Umes Mr she said You saved me from drowning in the snow Ho lie beamed and congratulated ed himself himself him him- self on making such success with this pretty creature He had not recognized recognized recognized her Ho lie had seen photographs of her in Freneau's Freneau s possession and h he had seen her at the te opera But she was disguised to him now now b by y her close fitting cap her rough sports suit and most of all by her coquettish coquettish coquettish coquet coquet- tish smile Suddenly he lie had to leap for his life liCe to escape another scooting scooting scooting scoot scoot- ing toboggan On it were David and Lois and a young oung man from the same house party of which was a member Hurt yourself Gloria David sang out outDid Did you yell ou get hurt Miss Stafford the other young joung man cried Gloria shook shoot her head and called after them not noticing that s e eyes es were popping and his Jaw droop- droop in Ing Ho He had had pieced the name to gether ier Gloria Stafford He had c come me up here to escape her and he had Just coasted down the hill with her and she knew his name He remembered remembered remembered re re- Dr Royces Royce's warning of the danger of meeting Gloria face to face He pretended to be suddenly ill He begged Glorias Gloria's pardon and said that he must go home Ho lie was too big for tor Gloria to hold and sho she could not run after him without attracting attention She Sho stood bewildered while he got away Later she telephoned to his host and asked to speak to him She learned that he had Just taken a motor to the train Gloria forgot her suspicions of Lois Loisin Loisin Loisin in her newer suspicions of this man He was evidently running away from her Therefore she must pursue him His lIis flight was evidence of some mysterious guilt I Gloria cut short her visit to the country and announced her intention of going back hack to town at once Her father and her brother were used to her whims and did not oppose them nowadays out of pity for her The next morning Gloria moria made another another an an- other Journey to office She went early to make sure of catching him within business hours The fhe stenographer stenographer ste ste- told her that Mr had gone to Palm Beach the night before with a rich client who had Invited him to be his guest Gloria was furious at this new es es- es- es I cape She pondered it all the way home When she saw her father she told him that he was not looking at atall atall atall all well he some golf and surf bathing lIe He ought to go to Palm Beach He accepted the suggestion heartily He lie was more than willing willingto to undertake the golf and he lie was eager to get Gloria out of the region region region re re- re- re gion of her sorrow He was so worried worried wor wor- ried over her swift alternation of gloom and gaiety that he lie invited Dr i Royce to come along as a member of the family party He did dill not have to ask Royce twice Gloria l 1 ad d not been to Florida during dur duro ing lug the last five years ears To her it was not so much a flight from her romance as a return to its birthplace It was at Palm Beach neach that she had met her fate It was there that she had made her girlish escapade In Davids David's racing car and wrecked it in inthe inthe the everglades It was there that she I I had hall wandered into the heart of the I i wilderness and into the heart of the young Seminole chief who would have forced her to be his squaw If her brave Freneau had not rescued her from him him- And now her liar lover who had lead escaped the dangers of the I Jungle had been slain on Riverside drive rive her romance had ended in vanity vanity vanity van van- I ity and despair I She found the pleasure paradise i iI about the same I A little more gorgeous perhaps but all the gloomier for tha that t. t She had I come from the white winter of the i North Into the sudden July of Florida FlorI Florida Flor Flor- ida and her liar heart ached anew remembering remembering re reo I how love lovo had bloomed in her life under the tropical sun of I Freneau's eyes It was like going over an old album of souvenirs to revisit revisit re reo visit the scenes of oi that far off yes yes- I The same throngs seemed to toI I be lancing dancing the same dances boundIng boundIng bounding bound- bound Ing through the same waves still sip sip- j l ping their tea under the palms in inthe the royal gardens of the Poinciana She had almost forgotten her purpose purpose purpose pur pur- pose in coming here when she caught sight of Frank Frani broad back He was stepping briskly She lid did not know that he had caught sight of ot her liar first and made off in disgust and amazement at her translation to his new llew retreat She dared not run after him and I j she could not keep pace with him She lost him hint In In the maze of the ba ba- Later she saw him stepping I into one of the rolling roiling chairs propelled propelled pro pro- by darkies on wheels wheels the the fat faI familiar fa fa- of Palm Beach t I r I Poor was winded by his Ins speed and ho he wanted to get to Ills his hosts host's cottage But nut he caught a glimpse of Gloria also chartering an To his horror her made after his He dared darell not put back to his hotel lIe He ordered his hla driver to turn down a bowered path and to give him all the steam the black could afford I The motorman was vigorous but the I j passenger was heavy Gloria was light but her African was weak weal It was an anybody's race with every prospect prospect pros pros- of a spill for one jockey or theother the tho theother other since the paths were filled with dawdling strollers and the bicycle had come back into fashion Everywhere women in exquisite dresses were rovIng roving roving rov rov- ing about on pedals Dozens Dozens' of other also cluttered the race raco course Now Gloria gained gaited and was about to head off her man when a messenger bo boy on a wheel cut In ahead and It was necessary for Gloria's Glorias Glorias Gloria's Glorias Gloria's Glo Glo- rias ria's chauffeur to back pedal wildly or endure collision I would shoot ahead and rejoice rejoice re re- joice at his triumph only to find himself himself himself him him- self in a tangle of pedestrians Ills His one one-darky power machine began to feel the effects of his bulky cargo applied gasoline in the form of a dollar bill brandished in front of or popping white eyeballs and that gave him the tho advantage for a time But nut even money cannot furnish ing power and the heavy breathing back of him told that his engine engine en en- gine was about to die He lie looked back and saw that Glorias Gloria's Glorias Glorias Gloria's Glo rias ria's car had taken a wrong turn and shot down another avenue lie He gave three silent cheers for himself Thus ended one of ot the most bloodcurdling bloodcurdling blood bloodcurdling curdling i oiling lolling chariot charlot races since Ben Ben Hur's day paid his ex hausted man well and took tool the nearest nearest near near- est way ay to the cottage where he was guest He did not leave it that night and It was well for Gloria hunted for tor him everywhere She would not dance though many asked her The music hurt her cruelly She remembered how ho she had wanted to dance dancA that moonlit night so long lone ago but had been put to bed by her heartless governess j I She remembered how she had suffered till Ull she could bear it no longer and I had risen to dress in the dark and steal out leaving her ber governess a a a- snore She had envied David his liberty and had stolen the car that David brought round so that he lie might take I Judge Freemans Freeman's daughter Lois for fora a moonlight spin spin and and spoon Glo Gloria ria had not prevented David from marrying harrying Lois and aud she had run herself herself her her- self into a series of adventures ad that I had promised everything wonderful only to stop short in black disaster I Her poor brave patient lover would dance no more smile more smile at her no more Love was gone from her life already alread and she was only 20 Frank did not dance ance that I night either lie He sat at his bits window listening to the music and wondering I how long this game of hide and seek would last He Be was tempted to go I out and surrender to this young girl who was stalking him hint with such relentless re re- re-I re stealth But nut he thought of the money her I father had given to Freneau and he lie was afraid he would have to give It f j I up He lie thought of ot his share in Freneau's Fre Fre- Ire i neau's trickery and the ugly look it it would have in court He lie beat his fat fathead head bead for some clever lie that would explain everything gracefully but no Inspiration came and he lie went to bed I like a spanked and child The next morning looked out j I late upon the flood of sunlight gild gild- gild 1 I ing the liquid emerald sea The breakers break break- i ers called to him he could not resist resist re- re the summons He lie stole down a 11 1 corridor and along an unfrequented I walk to a bathhouse He unpeeled his clothes and squeezed Into a bathIng bathing bath bath- Ing suit and so made into the ocean I Frien Friends s of ot his lolling on the beach said that the water rose when he lie went In and fell when he lie came out But was happy happ Ho lIo wallowed and dived like a porpoise till he lie was blissfully weary then he stretched himself on the sand for an oriental snooze lie heard a voice that sounded fa fa- fai I millar He lie sat up Gloria was coming coming com com- ing along the beach directly toward com I him In her sea clothes she was the approval of all eyes except He did not make the mistake of the ostrich He lie burled buried his entire self in inthe inthe the tho sand and tried to hold his breath till Gloria got past Luck |