The Photo-Play Journal (May 1916-Apr 1917)

THE PHOTO-PLAY JOURNAL FOR APRIL, 1917. PAGE 51. her until he packed his valuable papers. While Richard was thus engaged in the adjoining office Helen by consummate adroitness succeeded in pushing a specimen of gold ore which laid on a table beside a telephone under the receiver, raising it just enough to signal the central girl. Realizing that she would not dare to place the receiver to her ear, she turned on Gregory fiercely, taking particular care to keep her mouth as close to the telephone as possible. "How dare you hold me — Helen Ogden — against my will !" she demanded. "I won't be still. If the police knew the head of the Montana Investing Company was skipping with the funds — " The central girl, being unable to get further information, immediately notified the police of what she had heard over the phone. In a very short time Jack Burton, a plainclothes officer and Helen's lawyer arrived in the outer offices. Within a twinkling a veritable raid of the place was under way with Jack leading it. Richard managed to escape from his office by way of the fireescape, and he climbed up on the roof. Jack discovered him as he mounted the iron ladder, and he pursued him with agility. Once on the roof the two men engaged in a deadly combat, Jack fighting desperately to prevent Richard from pushing him off to death many feet below. By this time a large squad of policemen had been despatched to the scene of the trouble. Helen had frantically climbed up to the roof to help Jack, and she was followed by a policeman, who arrived just in time to save Jack from being hurled over a parapet. In the end Richard, Gregory and Carter were made prisoners, and immediately upon being revived from the exhaustion his fight with Richard had induced, Jack Burton lapsed into noticeable dejection. "Now, what's the matter, my brave boy?" Rev. Granger asked Jack with solicitude. "Well, the mine will be restored to her," he replied sadly. "Oh it's the barrier her money makes, eh ?" the good minister asked with a merry twinkle in his eye. "Don't be foolish, children. A wedding ring won't prevent you from using that money for good." Both Helen and Jack saw the forceful truth of Rev. Granger's argument. They gazed into each other's eyes and loved. They would be happy in spite of the money mill's output. It was a happy Helen who submitted to the manly embrace of Jack Burton. From the photoplay of Roy L. McCardcll. Produced by Vitagraph, starring Dorothy Dalton. The Alliance of Cupid and Ananias {Continued from page 26.) ' Tlll'illill.li'l. II I ; :l i'i lililllllilHIIIIlll gushed as she carefully climbed down the ladder. "I told her when I left that I never intended seeing you again, and that I just hated you." Then she stepped onto the ground and confronted the waiting Tom. "Well, I do hate you," she continued after a moment's hesitation, "but I'm going to marry you anyway right out here under this tree the first Wednesday that comes along." Then a boy in white flannels and a girl in a blue dress (the hats were forgotten and left on the grass) walked hand-in-hand back to the house. The girl talked so fast about "only one white dress here" and how vexed Madge would be because she couldn't be bridesmaid, but she didn't care if she was angry, that the boy couldn't get one word in edgeways nor couldn't understand more than one out of every three she said. Upon reaching the porch they stopped. Bess faced Tom with an expression of sheepishness on her face. "Tommy," she said, "I knocked that ladder down on purpose." "I know you did, you little liar," he replied quickly but gently as he kissed the erring, little daughter of Ananias. "You did know it ?" she asked. "Yes, certainly." "Then did you really hear me when I whispered to myself something about you being nice to me after all?" she asked. "Sure I heard it," he replied. "How could you when you were so far away at the time?" she asked showing some amazement. Tom thrust his hand in his hip pocket and pulled out a small, round, black object resembling the end of a telephone receiver and then looked down upon it meditatively. "It's some kind of a patent ear attachment for deaf people," he remarked. "It is !" she exclaimed. "Yes, I borrowed it from Mr. Botts, whose hearing is impaired," Tom explained. "And it was with the aid of this modern device that you started my undoing in single blessedness?" she asked as she examined the object closer. "Yes, sweetheart, by being able to catch that one remark of yours which convinced me of your weakening in my favor, I gathered all the courage necessary to press my suit to a successful end. Thus and with this I effected the alliance of Cupid and Ananias." 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