Show mrs ra kv e r kau akes novelized from the motion picture play piny of the same name by george kleine atrit Ot rit IKs kr aeto U hol SYNOPSIS pierpont stafford with his bin daughter glotta Cl Gl loila otla la Is wintering nt at palm beach neach olo ito in 18 i 11 vivacious but blit willful young lady who ho e clings las anler the r restraining estrain inq hand or of a govel nesti froin whom ale her flor ci childish indish capora cause young doctor to fall all in fit love loin with tier becoming logt in tile the everglades slie she falls alia into the ilie handi hadj of the indians gloria falls falli in ill love with alth aci let rescuer 1 rc bellu live five years barg later she alia leuven school and meta meets breneau tit nt tho the ti theater eater lie ho has forgotten ololla Ul tirla later lere l peau persuaded tier lier to forgive oreave him glorias ln in law lols lola becomes intensely jeal ous long and doctor royce discovers in tier her an ian alii freneau 1 tu takes leave ot of gloria sh e from rani lier her winlow an attack mode 0 upon him doctor convinces tier lier 1 it t in it a delirium A telegram followed 1 hy it a letter comes from 10 l reneau she bhe replies but h tit hr r tole telegrams granis aro are return returned eq stio fah no ac ca lenity sees seea me supposed of 0 freneau reported in tile piper paper gloria swears to ind find the mui murderer derer of tier her lover royce tells what lie knows if I reneau to air safford rord aticy seek to prevent scandal from enveloping envelo gloira she accuses them h em of 0 conspirer against tier her gloria sets bets about to run town down Irene iua mur lerer berer royce warns miry to tell gloria nothing gloria calls on and there sees aces lots lola who la is also worried Ol orias suspicions are aroused royce noyce endrai tire ora to show her the difficulty she aho faces acea gloria goes to davids country home she diets niets who floes at once gloria in alses on going to palm beach again a she e bees there ito ho raves for the noll NO ali she Is 1 recognized by tier her onetime one ono time captor tile the young indian chief lie tells ella tier her that royce lloyce and not freneau rrene ail wits was nor rescuer re at that time gloria attends night court she ehe bes 11 u dry hero her 0 a also so tile ali tramp who attacked attached nut n t judge freeman l releases jilin him she blia follows the tramp lie ho louses leaves the court and falls falln in into to t the Is h ands of holdup hold up men she bhe finds in a low baloon lance clance hall and la Is selected by one ot of tit lie patrons as aa hla his partner doctor doi tor royce however ho follows her and when alic n lie aftem ale it a rescue c calli alls down it riot tin on their heads the hall i all la Is raided and nd the crowd fric including ludIng gloria and yta noyce c e la Is arrested arr and taken before clr 1 reeman man tile the newspapers feature Olor laa arreba reporters Ilc porters surround Bur round tind the house casimir with tile the child gloria pro to adopt site he orders ordera lioce to takk aku CaRi wife afe to tile ilia stafford home she follows fol loia trask trash and lands on an it a houseboat tu hear him accused ot ireneaus murder FIFTEENTH fifteen IH EPISODE the murderer at bay Iler pont starford cherished ills ma justly bestle country place principally lie be cuicio it furnished furni shoil him nn ample sol stude rio ile could nailer wander nt iler about it for hours houra and nevar meet a soul if I 1 lie he wanted company there wits wis room for it ili hi the prince ant catl in tho the formally gardened Kril enel grounds and lie he could look ann down on the ti tremendous ponce pence of 0 tile tho river its strength ns as one strong man inan doos docs uno und corn com it on the with which alch it did such rich it ft big business will so little fuss up ile asked few persons to visit him tind those few only when lien tho the wood moved jilin in ili ills hla everyday life na its a man inan of big met so many people and was so pointed pointe dout out whon when li lip walked d tho the streets that he to acquired red it n aind of shyness in hla his hours of leisure N TX ill r 1 14 11 f 0 gloria seized a dish towel and gagged him lie ile was touched in ID a tender spot lie ile lien heard id it ai daughter gloria hall I 1 incited uv t li 0 guests to make lunko ills his d retreat dinoro or less leas permanent home site she lind had not consulted him unit und tile the guests ivere the dinst people tit in the world lie would have invited it was nice 3 noush for gloria to take pity litty on it waiter nid and ills forlorn child it was na sweet of tier lier to adopt tile child Ilor pont lind had even forg aven her by now for compelling him to haut employment for tile watter waiter but then what followed gloria invited tile boys ill al anost hopelessly invalid mother and the hoy boy and tho fattier to make themselves at home in ponts own owa sanctuary I 1 that was far niora more than too much this hns hag rot got to stop and im going to g ton feton it Iller pont stormed to doctor it cvito lio hud had 17 at Glor glorias laH com corn s ii bi i mand transported tile the three to iller ponts country place royce aloyce smiled Iler pont grew more oil im riot not afraid of her just be baue nut she Is only a child alica got to obey me and get rid of them tell tier her so bir sala said royce amused ut at the old mans helpless bluster oil ill tell herl her Iler pont swaggered where Is she bhe no one know knew royce suggested buggey ted that sho she hat probably gone bone to tle tile country place to see sec lier new so Iller pont motored out with royce lie ile told that lie ho would really have to ret get rid ut of the unwelcome guests if oil only I 1 y to prove to gloria that sho she was not yet tile absolute boss bosa of the family that victory will mill bo be worth going nilles miles to beo bee sald said royce lloyce they reached the country place only to find that gloria had not been seen nor heard of ilor her three guests wore were there however installed for a long stay thu the butler was tie so horrified tit nt having it waiters family to walt alt on that lie ho otT eroil ills his notice decided to evict the waiters fitfully family and save tile butler ile he would do igat once before morin gloria sot got lume ho stalked forth like a constable with a writ of eviction the loy boy stas caught sight of him ond and anti and lung ills his firms arms about ills his neck find and began to tell him of the won ders of oc ills own country place of trees mul and and birds and animals commonplace things to but miracles to the liy l iy y from the shims casimir lind had gathered nn an armload of flowers for ills his sick wife find and lie wits was aglow with tile feeling that site eho wits was better already iler pont had a great deal of glorias impulsiveness ana it 11 great deal of I 1 lier or abounding tenderness ile iio lost 1 his Is temper in ili lashes flashes but ills his charity burned steadily and deeply ano now low had won ills his heart ile HB could not unclasp that cl childs illas arms ir in fact lie I 1 lifted stas sta to ills firm arm unit and hold held litin him hero while lio lie told the butler tit he could leave without notice if ho did not ilki tile guests of tile house mso also ill il pont told that lie must take 11 nicular of wife roy boy laughed tit nt tile old mans complete vv A lapse and said bald its a pity gloria here to see you I 1 wonder where on earth she Is ashes somewhere sho she to be sure Iler pont growled grow led as lie ho stared nt at ills his section of the hudson where lighting fighting against tile current a littlie tug was va visible 1 ill e towing nn an old canal burse barge loaded to the water title line then ho be added nedd ashes probably on that bargo barge eiliv now nd adopting opting the barge mans ans faintly ile iio could imagine nothing more extravagantly trava gantly impossible to say bay than that hat and yet the truth kept pace with ills his extravagance extras FoiGl afif gloria orla was indeed oven even then on board just such buch a barge being towed upstream by just such a tug only gloria was riot not adopting the family she was being adopted by it slie she was a prisoner and tier lier life was in pawn glorias curiosity as to one problem was solved she had found out that tier lier vision of Frenc nus enns murder was riot not it delirium she had seen the assassin arid and board hlin him accused by ills hla own daughter one trouble with satisfying curiosity Is that every curiosity aH sHed opens up new curiosities gloria now was ans frantic to know why gideon trask killed lint and how tracks daughter was waa involved in the crime next net site felie waa curious to know how she was to escape with tier her knowl edge once bho had it when trask trash glorias voice ills shoulder ne cusing him hill of the crime lie he was denying lie hu whirled as if 66 L ongel angel had with the voice of conscience an ali angel would have been hardly more surprising then the ho look of gloria on oil the stairway of the burge barge trask lind no idea of glorias identity ile iio could not who slip she wh w whence she had corne conic or why slie she acclis accused ed him lie ile stood transfixed ft a moi then moved toward tier her ith me tince gloria retreated up till the step but lio lie leaped nt at tier her arid and drugged dragged her down and seized tier by the throat its as lie he enod seized freneau slie she tried to scream but she could not make a sound nell attempted to restrain iter her fattier father but lie he turned on tier her with terror n 1 nd wrath it if she liets gets away I 1 go to the chair IN he might have throttled tier lier then and cherti but there was a jolt the bargo barge shook as tile towline drugged it awny away and down tho the hatchway cume the voice of tracks helper jed trask hurled gloria against the way and warned tier her that if she made a sound bound it would bo be tier lier last lie ile would wring tier her neck and throw her into the river I 1 I 1 gloria cowered in utter dread of him arid remembered the fate of tier her poor lover choso whoso body the same earno strew had received and kept for days OV t 1 ati tr trask stran strander per vp the cabin ationo tind banged tile the down clot ii studied till HIP gir abe had been beautiful find still was pretty tut lint too sat sad just now slie site was too angry yell nell find been lighting fighting against tier her father till tills this unknown woman ap appeared peard from nowhere now nell wits was nil all for her father against the world gloria spoke to her questioned tier about rrene nell did not answer nt at nil fill only in grumbling monosyllables ololla tried to bribe nell to let tier her escape gloria larger find larger sums till nell would havo have been dazzled if sho she had been convinced at last she spoke say isay who do you sou think you are arc the adline savings brink bank and wit aho vho 6 ilo do boil you think I 1 am I 1 aint on auction rf if your fattier father lint had nil all the money youre binkin up lio lie lins has do you think you could buy my with it not nol glorn clorn liked her better for that but s she lie was nono none the less acsa determined to escape ess cl I 1 PC I 1 if f she could she talked no more but she thought harder lhnn ever before nell went on getting her fat fathers tiers supper nt at the little stove store cluttering clattering the pans pang und find jabbing the fire with tho the pok p cf r angrily gloria had often steamed up the hudson on oil tier fat tiers yacht tills N led jed went over with a crash and gloria sidled up the stairs was tier her first voyage on oil ti it canal barge the place was extremely unlike tier her fathers yacht but the savor of the frying pan mado made gloria llorin democratically hungry when trask came back however ills fils cold eyes eieg took he her r appe we way iway hut but not ills own site watched min wolf olt his food sho felt that ho was halt insane a relentless fanatic on ft a wild w lid crusade ills eyes kept rolling lolling in tier her direction ilo ile found tier her so iuster dolls lous that lio lie was half liala afraid of tier her ilo ile remembered tile lo loneliness neline as of that winter night by the soldiers nua Sal sailors lors monument ilo ile remembered the appearance pe arance of freneau alone find and no other ali fiuman being in view ills very hands remembered the death grasp they took ou on Fre ireneaus Frene nua throat lie ile sullied smiled that was one good deed tit at least ho he told blin himself self kut but lie he could not imagine I 1 how tills girl t arl could have seen him I 1 low how could lie ho guess that sho had sat at lie her r window with binoculars to tier lier eyes and watched the whole tragedy ile he b began bogrow to grow superstitious gloria was apparently able to perform fail ti cles sho wore the invisible cloak perhaps alio would leave us as mystically as she hild conic collie finally lie he grow brave enough to shout out tit at her who arc aio you mint wits was to tn you gloria knew that anyone who blusters it ers Is likely to ile be weak so site sho answered coldly never igind who I 1 mil am tile the main Is who tire you 0 and rid what was fr au to you the aery pry name brenenn boomed to trask lie emitted a loud yelp of anite unit derision and left ifft tho the table ile iio moved toward gloria but changed cha ned ills his mind or deferred ili ills purpose and went up the stairs closing the ile lint hat hatch it find fastening it above there was nothing noth liiK reassuring in ills his last look at gloria neil was clearing up tile table when she elie saw that gloria was faint with hunger or terror sho she offered gloria tile tho remnant of the gloria was klad glad to get it site she ate like another pauper site she felt that she elie would need what strength she would acquire iler her wits were dancing as she tried tiled to think out a means of escape site alio could riot not fight nell and tier lier father arid and the big non man too sho she could not overcome them with force find she find no deap on but tier lier five wits and they lind had never been trained to such problems sho she was ns as helpless before them us as she hall had been when she was it a little fifteen year earold ear old illy filly at patin beach arid tier lier governess had given tier her it piu in algebra a axa b slie site atad stared nt at that riddle its as she stared ut at this ill s one doctor royce had happened along then unit smiled nt at the easy tusk task lie ile could co uld probably solve tills this problem too but lie ho wits was not liere here she was alone and the solution depended solely on tier lier site she thought and thought while nell cleared the table sho she offered to help sell nell and wits was permitted to aid la in the work when the last dish was removed to the wash basin gloria find and nell took opposite ends of the coarse tablecloth when it wits was folded twice tho the two girls began to bring tho the two ends ands together na its people do why who uro tire folding tablecloths nell stopped short nt at the proper moment gloria went toward tier her the solution come came to tier her in a hash flush instead of putting the two ends enda of the tablecloth in nells lingers fingers site suddenly whipped the cloth over onar her head brought it down around her elbows and after a furious struggle forced nell back into a chair arid knotted the tablecloth corners under the arms site sho snatched it pair of MAI dish towels from the wall find and tied nells feet to the legs of the chair nell fought ilke a mad fund woman in a strait straitjacket jacket but tho the knots held gloria was as out of breath but she was proud as punch over lier her victory she stood up panting find and exclaimed well I 1 so far so good but there was still trask to settle with and 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