The Moving Picture Weekly (1916-1917)

THE MOVING PICTURE WEEKLY The Pearl Necklace 9f CHAPTER NINE OF ''THE GRAY GHOST'' (Copyright 1917, Universal Film Manufacturing Co.) |S the ninth chapter of "The Gray Ghost" opens, Arabin, the jeweler, pulls the trigger of the revolver, but The Gray Ghost only smiles. "That's a dangerous weapon, Mr. Arabin," said he, "when loaded." The butler in the hall snickered and winked at the maid as Arabin furiously pulled the trigger. Then he pulled the bullets which should have been in the revolver out of his pocket. An instant later the Gray Ghost's gang was in the house searching every nook and cranny for the two million dollar Carlow necklace. In the meantime Jean Marco, Hildreth's secretary, who had escaped so spectacularly from the automobile, arrived on the borrowed horse at headquarters. There he informed Jerry Tryon that the Gray Ghost was at Arabin's house, and to take all of his men and rush there as fast as possible if he wanted to save the' necklace. In an instant ten able-bodied plain clothes men had bundled into an automobile, and were sixty-miling it for Arabin's country home. But when Tryon finally knocked at NINTH Two-Reel episode of the Saturday Evening Post serial story by Harry Somers Roche, adapted for the screen and produced by Stuart Paton. CAST. Hildreth Emory Johnson Morn Light Priscilla Dean "Gray Ghost" Harry Carter Jean Marco Eddie Polo The Maid Gypsy Hart Jerry Tryon Lew Short Arabin Howard Crampton Fred Olmstead J. Morris Foster the door the Gray Ghost had discovered the necklace and was about to depart. For an instant consternation reigned within. Then the fertile brain of the master crook devised a plan. "Ten guns are covering you, Mr. Arabin, and if you forget for one instant that I am your physician, and am attending you for a bad cold, you will never need another doctor. All you will require is a hearse." Then they let Tryon in, and it was not until the Gray Ghost started to take his departure that Arabin got an opportunity to tip Trj'on off that his pretended doctor was the Gray Ghost. "Halt there," said Tryon, quick as a flash, but the Gray Ghost halted not. "Bang, Bang." Two shots rang out, both from Tryon's gun. One got the Gray Ghost fair in the chest, the other barely missed the butler who, by his action, betrayed his allegfiance. A furious struggle ensued between the crooks and the detectives who surrounded the house. "Well, they didn't get the right necklace, anyway," said Arabin, with some satisfaction. "This one is an imitation, and is worth $100." Meanwhile in the house on the island of mystery Fred Olmstead suddenly saw an apparition of the Gray Ghost pointing directly at him. The shock was so great that he fell senseless to the floor, and no effort of Hildreth and Mom Light, who were with him, could arouse the terror stricken spirit. Suddenly the telephone rings. "Everj-thing is fixed in the steel chamber for Hildreth," is the cryptic message which comes over the wire. Hildreth turns white. Suddenly the double floor starts to go dovm again, and thinking to find a way out, Hildreth and Mom Light get on and go down to the second floor, where they wander about in the passages below until the ghostly apparition of their common enemy is suddenly seen at the end of the passageway. They make a quick tum, and as they step into a room the floor goes down from under them, and they drop into a steel-walled room. Thus we leave them with Jean Marco rowing toward the island, and Jerry Tryon writing his report.