Show r DUPE PT pua novelized from the motion picture play of the same name by george kleine copyright 1916 by adelaide NI hughei J FIRST EPISODE lost in the everglades rather remarkable it sold tho the sick old lion judge preeman that tho most expensive hotel and the most moat luxurious resort in tho the world should bo a only a tow few miles from an almost impenetrable wilderness inhabited by indians indiana that the united states army could never dislodge yes yea it to Is odd said hla his young doctor but tho the prices hero here aro are almost as impenetrable as the knife grass of tho the evor everglades glades and as for indians tho the united states navy dislodge some bamo of 0 these old mIllion millionaire alre squads squaws from their snobbery im afraid my daughter finds it so tho the judge agreed hero weve boon been for two choln weeks and lola lois know anybody who la Is anybody ox ex capt pierpont rier pont St affords boy and im afraid hoa bes only flirting with her doctor had not been engaged to proscribe prescribe for niles miss lols lois freemans freemanb Fre emans ambitions so lio lie changed the subject its hard to bollomo bellevo that there Is a blizzard annew in now york today when you look at those lowers flowers and see BOO those half dressed mobs wallowing in tho the surf tho the judge gave a lump jump and gasped good lord hear that somo some woman is iff being murdered royce chocked checked him with a gesture and a smile sit still judge its ito only gloria stafford anvira another battle with her bor govern fiss tho judge settled lck into hito his blanket grumbling the little devil always in hot water doctor boyco camo came to her defense with a curious warmth driving her with too tight ft a rein ashes too tod big licar hearted tod and bravo brave and to be ba treated as a child much longer tho the old man sighed wo we fathers with motherless firla to ralso raise are pretty helpless cattle I 1 can send a criminal to tho the chair but I 1 cant punish ray my daughter sho does docs what she plea pl casos sos and it rarely picanes me and pierpont stafford can run a string ot of banks and make a railroad system oat cat out pf af his hand but that girl of tits his has him 1 I believe thoy they say buffaloed buffaloes buff or Is ia it Pittsburg hod that pierpont pont out thero there in the surf now I 1 wish I 1 could go in do you think I 1 might tild tho doctor shook his head you run out on tho the links and play 11 little golf among tho the palm trees T orrow I 1 may lot let you have a dip 1 I dont feel quite bulto up tip to golf go on dont disobey youre worse than than another scream from the corridor gave him tho the missing word youre worse than gloria ila ho litton tho the judge from ills his chair thrust a bag of golf clubs cluba into ills his X L r I 1 I 1 miss billie burke star of 01 glorias orias romance arms anti and ordered him off tho the judge pleaded play with me will you not much youve had enough of at me tor for today heres your daughter miss lots lols let me introduce your father take him round tho the links bouce wont you lola lois obeyed with more grace than graciousness iler her thoughts were on tho the two strings to her bow she had had to content berdolt for her first week at palm deach beach wath the attentions of Fro frineau Fren neau cau it i young broker in charge of a branch office at the royal Poin poinciana clana but recently she eho had caught the syo eya of david staffort stafford ford and she had tried to hold bold it breneau preneau was ft as handsome much too good looking for or life own good or the good of ony any girl or woman lie he focused lila ills eyo eye upon freneau was magnetic and lie ho was waa great fun full but david stafford was good business to capture tile tho son of stafford would bo be high oom something ething tremendous the judge her ter father kept his eyes on lots lols more than on tho the golf ball and lauded landed in tho the buli bunkers gulikers kers with regularity lie ho know knew that tits his daughter was up to somo some mischief but ho he was sure that it was not tile tho innocent nila mis chief of at tho the obstreperous gloria 41 gloria stafford exquisite in ber bathing suit was like a iier uro ure como come to life very much t 0 a as sho she stood outside tier her bedroom door and hold held tile tho knob against tier her governess who tugged in at tile tho opposite knob then gloria let go and tile tho governess went staggering backward across the room while gloria with shrieks of laughter made tier her way off and down tho the corridor and out to tho beach tho the leach beach being no lose less than palm beach she bhe dodged among throngs of tho the well known tho the much photographed who wore also making their way though moro more sedately to tho the surf it was twelve tho the fashionable bathing time to bo be soon seen in the water moro more than halt half an hour earlier or moro more than halt half an hour lato late was socially fatal tho the governess followed tho the fugitive in hot haste baste but gloria sought refuge in fit tho the crowded ocean sho she dived and stayed under as long au ag sho she could but miss sidney descried her at once and gesticulated violently commending commanding her to como come back gloria merely bobbed hur her port little bonnet and splashed in behind her father misa sidney persisted and gloria gave her father a push saying you go mako make her lot mo me alono alone tell tier her shell be ba sorry it if she tho capitalist floundered out bilth tile tho apologetic manner of an yer grown schoolboy for oven even ho he was afraid of tho lie gove governess aness arid and lie ho was not vary very impressive in a bathing suit lie ho mado made tits his way to ties miss kidneys Sid presence pre senco and mumbled would you mind it if gloria had her morning swim please tho the governess explained to him as aa it she eho talking to another child that since gloria had positively refused to work out tier her problem in algebra sho had been forbidden to go into the tha water nevertheless sho she had flagrantly rebelled secretly arrayed herself a tor for tho the bath and fled it would never do to let her have her own wily er urn um 1 sea said stafford lie ile bowed meekly and returned with still less courage to face ills his daughter A widower with a child of sixteen Is pathetic enough at bat but gloria WM was so effulgently sixteen so eagerly alive and so pretty that her father was disarmed by a mere glanco glance at hur hor ills anger was sure to melt in a shamefaced smile in tile the meanwhile gloria had made the most of her stolen moments and with swift overhand strokes had put a number of gleaming breakers between tier her and tho the shore silo sho turned just in time to soo see tier her father beckoning to her with his best imitation of tho the stern parent she sha know that tile tho governess had cowed him and she did not wish to hamili ato alo him by her own disobedience so she eho swam back through tho the heads floating on oil tho the water like tipples apples floating tn in a halloween tub it mado made her boiling mad to bo be disgraced before all tho the important people silo sho could sea eco somo of them grinning at tier her her brother david openly ridiculed her and splashed water over her sho she pretended not to him but reaching her father at last she hurled herself upon him and ducked him under tho the water then she aho scrambled to tho the beach when the enraged governess seized her by tho the wrist gloria tried to pull her into the troth froth hut but the governess was too big tor for her and she hauled gloria out of tile tho romantic sea into a hard world of dry sand and drier arlor mathematics gloria slunk along in a white roge rage a storm brewing behind tier her eyes silo sho was not often sullen and never morbid sho she was made up of at joy sunlight and mischief all the fresh and sweet of life but sho aho loathed being told to do things or not to do things forbidden commanded lo 10 in a word bossed she was poised at tho the nameless stage between childhood and girlhood silo sho was not what la Is termed out yet her restive spirit madi made it impossible for her to bo be kept lu in she was tired of being snubbed ifer her brother david some soma four years her senior mado life increasingly lonesome for gloria by his freedom and tho the superior worldly airs ho he assumed for her cep especial ecial torment to in earlier years they had leen been very near to each other and now it was bitter to olo glo rias proud soul to watch david coming and going at will dancing every night and flirting desperately with lola lois freeman Fre oman whom gloria did not like ilka because tier her brother did oh ob yes david could flirt dirt hla his head off but her father turned white while and her governess gover noaa turned blue it if gloria so BO much as mentioned a lover in a novel or suggested that she might have one herself at some time in that future which sho she was waiting for ai tho next installment of an exciting serial gloria was woman enough to resent re restraint and child enough to bo be capable or of making aking m a tragic blunder it she eho ever broke away 4 0 gloria issued a declaration or of lode inde pond pend enco as soon as sho she reached her room it began with im too old to have a governess thanks miss sidney snapped Y youre oure more than welcome gloria gloy snapped napp a d back 1 I want one thing u understood 11 der stood this Is tho the last time ill stand being treated as a child im not one at my ago age my grandmother was tile tho mother of 0 my mother and if 1 you dont chango change your treatment of me im going to run away arid and marry the first man mail I 1 meet ile who are always going to do things r er to do them said bald tho the governess with the primness of a copybook nut but it youre so old and wise suppose you prove it first by doing your algebra lesson its very simple they never made my grandmother learn algebra gloria protested they never taught her to run an automobile either another thing my brother ties has a car of his own and I 1 oven even a half the girls of at my ago age have their own motors I 1 can run ono one as well as any of 0 them its a shame that my father wont buy me one perhaps it if you learned your lea sons ho he might reward you with a car this rainbow ot of hope brought the end of tho storm gloria beamed arid and ran to slip out of tier her bathing suit arid and into her luncheon frock the govern i oss ess almost smiled as she wrote the problem on the blackboard sho she used neau la is a sample oh dear this athla awful algebra sho she stood pouting at life in general and study in particular she turned back to her task and stood in so BO melancholy a posture that doctor royce passing her window and seeing tier her paused to study her tor for a moment as it if she were a painted figure in a painted scone scene Us lie thought she was paint ed splendidly well she was so pretty that she made hla his heart ache it ached for himself and then for foi tier her the poor little prisoner lie ito tapped on tho the window 0 ioria gloria turned and recognized her ber visitor ifer her oes eyes twinkled with affection silo did like doctor royce roco david ila had presented him to her doc tor royce had graduated at davids college they were members of the same fraternity you ought to bo be out hero here in the sun doctor royce suggested gloria was shocked at the idea she 4 al 1 na S lot 14 04 at 0 ROE 4 gloria slipped into high speed ard and sped away for glorias lessons when gloria camo back miss sidney pointed to the figures its ita very cry simple my dear she said you hao hae only to multiply a 1 b by ab dut but work 11 it out yourself dear and call uio me when it 11 la is finished gloria stared at the problem and felt herself slipping back into childhood at a breakneck speed she had no more idea of what it all meant than a newborn new now born babe site she auton a pair of big tortoise tort shell spectacles but they made her look younger than over ever and gave her no help sho she could see that foolish ab lut but she could not sea why antono anono should want to know what would happen it if you ou did such a foolish thing as to multiply it by itself when the tha blackboard blurred before dereyes her eyes sho she moved to tho the window and stared at tho the guttering glittering merriment of at tho the crowd everybody was at play except gloria people in bathing suits yachting flannels golf togs tennis things clothes motor gear they streamed along tho the walks tho the sand tho the piazzas plaz sat la in wicker chairs or rolled along in by and by gloria saw lots lols freeman come coma in from tho the links when dick freneau sauntered prod up lots lois deserted her father at once gloria did not like the way sho she ogled mr freneau lols lois used tho the same languishing espre s stona gloria had soon seen her working off on oa david gloria wanted to run out and warn poor sir freneau that lola lois was a do minx 1 mr 1 ar corneau had such lovely trusting eyes it was a crime to luro lure him on gloria meditated they say hes a broker wha whatever tover that Is I 1 wonder what a broker breaks hearts probably if mr per fer pointed to the blackboard im in jail for a thousand years it will take rue mo at least that long lone to do this hateful problem royce could not enter h her or room to go to the blackboard so lie he asked her to bring the blackboard to him sho she fetched it joyously and gave him chalk and said thero there any answer tilou though gli ila ho was too polito to say bay IN why ay this Is tho the easiest thing thine in tho the world but I 1 lie ho showed that it was for him by the speed arid and smiling case ot of his chalk work in a moment tho the riddle was solved gloria understood it a little less than before but it meant a release from captivity and she was so BO entranced that she aho flung tier her arms about him and gave him a resounding kiss and called him a wonderful marvelous inar angel man to her it was a kiss of childish gratitude tor for the help of older wisdom sho she hurried the blackboard back to tho the easel and began to copy tho the doctors neat figures in her own owl scrawl but royce stood quivering with A ath the unexpected attack ile he know knew that it was waa a young girls kiss given in fit confidence and ignorance and it was therefore sacred but ho he could not help feeling a thrill of prophetic hope hopa soon she must grow up to womanhood and sho must love someone and why urby not him she was very rich but his own future was gorgeous in his dreams and gloria was tile tho most gorgeous thing in ills his gorgeous dreams then he reproached himself for the mood and grow grew sad at tho the thought of the years that must roll over glorias sunlit head before he could sven oven pay court to her and in those years what dangers might she not encounter dangers to her health her soul her happiness ila ho longed to protect her through them all ila ho saw that gloria had already forgotten him sho she had copied his work and sho she was rubbing out his calculations lie ho wondered it if that were prophetic too when gloria had the blackboard nil all shipshape sho she howled to the governess to come and see her triumph gloria regretted tho the deception but what other refuge has tho the weak from tho strong miss sidney raised her eyebrows and doubtless suspected that gloria had enjoyed outside aid but sho sha had bad an engagement of her own with the tutor of a rich young imbecile nod and she pretended to bo be convinced gloria was permitted to call it an algebra lesson and for a reward she was assigned to the study of a list of the english kings gloria did not mind that for she hid a stolen novel inside the page and read something far more important to her than ancient history modern romance it gloria had bad not learned a |