Motion Picture Story Magazine (Feb-Jul 1912)

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THE CYLINDER'S SECRET 67 "They're all alike — those fellows with money," growled her brother, significantly, while he continued to work away at a piece of mechanism built of springs and wires and cylinders. The girl's task was made more difficult in the face of this double prejudice. She lay down on the sofa for nearly a half-hour, trying to think, all the while watching her brother anxiously, and hoping he would tire of his task and go out for the evening. At last, so nervous that she felt she must scream, she asked, blankly : "I should think you'd ruin your eyes, Dave. How long are you going to keep at it, anyway ? ' ' "Till I make this wheel go around without friction, ' ' he responded. "Oh!" She sat up now. "And what in the name of common sense is it this time?" "There's little use in telling you, but it's a wireless telephone, that's what it is." "So that people can talk without wires ? ' ' She looked at the clock, and found it to be four minutes of eight. She must tell them Richard was coming. "Yes; and this little piece of nonsense would make us all millionaires, too, if I could get any one to be its backer. ' ' Nell had heard something like this many times before, but her quick wit now discerned where it might help her in her trying moment. "And if I could get some one, with money, interested in this invention for you?" Her brother rose like a flash, brushing off his shabby blue serge suit, as tho getting ready to go at once. "You just put me in touch with one of 'em, Nell, that's all I ask. I'll convince 'em!" The boy's dreaming eyes sprang into a flame of earnest DAVE EXPLAINS HIS INVENTION TO RICHARD