The Moving Picture Weekly (1916-1917)

THE MOVING PICTURE WEEKLY ■21 ^The Double Floor/' Eighth Gray Ghost Episode (Copyright 1917, Universal Film Mfg. Co.) I HEN the smoke had cleared away, Marco and the two detectives who had so guilelessly invaded Morn Light's I apartment, were c o vered with ten guns. "I surrender," said one of the detectives. "Who are you?" "Line up against the wall there." The detectives were speedily relieved of their shooting irons, and placidly sat down to await developments. The crooks, however, took Marco immediately and put him on the back seat of a car, and with a crook on either side, put on all steam for the House of Mystery. Williams, in the apartment, forces one of the detectives to talk to Jerry Tryon over the phone, telling Jerry to come at once, as they have landed The Gray Ghost. Meanwhile, at the House of Mystery, a man fights with the keeper, and the latter is thrown down a trap. Then the man breaks in the door of the room where Mom Light is held. Mom Light and the two men are struggling when Hildreth, hearing the girl's screams and the confusion, bursts in the door of the room which adjoins that of Morn Light, with a fire-iron and starts fighting with the man. Olmstead, being bound, succeeds in freeing himself, after the floor just misses killing him, and adds his force with that of Hildreth against the man. But thinking he sees the ghost of The Gray Ghost, Olmstead collapses. Just after overcoming the man, Hildreth answers the phone, re CURRENT chapter of "The Gray Ghost" serial, produced by Stuart Paton and adapted by him from the Arthur Somers Roche novel in the Saturday Evening Post. CAST. Hildreth Emory Johnson Morn Light iPriscilla Dean The Gray Ghost Harry Carter Marco, Hildreth's Secretary Eddie Polo Mom Light's Maid Gypsy Hart Williams Francis McDonald The Gray Ghost's Valet Frank Tokanaga ceiving the message that "everything is fixed for Hildreth." As Hildreth and Mom Light start to leave the Mysterious House, two bloodhounds dash toward them. A new maid has come to Arabin's house, who is in league with The Gray Ghost. The butler is also a tool of the crooks, and although Arabin is suspicious of both of them, he has no proof of their guilt. Jerry Tryon and his men arrive at the House of Mystery and, finding the doors locked, break in. In the room, Williams and the others, hearing the noise at the door, switch out the lights, and when Jerry enters the room, he finds only the three detectives whom he begins to upbraid. They ransack the apartment, but find nothing. A detective is left to watch the place, and Jerry and the others leave. While Hildreth's secretary, Marco, is being taken over a bridge by the crooks in the touring car, he overhears a bit of conversation which is important. "The boss should be at Arabin's in about half an hour," said one of the crooks. "Sure, twenty minutes I give him, and he'll be on time, too." Watching his opportunity, he called the crooks' attention to something at the side of the road, and while they were thus busy, he jumped out of the car into the water thirty feet below. In spite of their revolver shots he reaches the bank, catches a horse grazing in the field, and rides furiously away, pursued by the baffled crooks. On his panting charger, Marco rides into the city to warn Jerry that The Gray Ghost is at Arabin's. In the meantime the boss makes his call upon the jeweler, sending his card in by the butler and the treacherous maid. Arabin declines to see him, but The Gray Ghost walks in, and in the most affable manner greets the jeweler. "Mr. Arabin, I am The Gray Ghost. In looting your store the other day there were one or two little things that we missed. One of them was the pearl necklace. I believe it is worth about two million dollars, is it not? I refer to the one you made for Mr. Carlow of London. If it is all the same to you, I will trouble you for that now." Arabin, although his suspicions had been vague, had prepared against eventualities. Backing over to a secretary, he opened the drawer, and pulling out a revolver, fired pointblank at The Gray Ghost.