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68 TECHNIQUE OF THE PHOTOPLAY Tim gets kicked out of the office and vows revenge. Next morning he is sitting on Smith's steps as Smith leaves for the office. Smith kicks Tim off the steps and takes a car for the office. Tim takes a taxicab and gets there first. He is waiting for Smith in front of the office building. He pushes his way into Smith's office a little later and when Smith kicks him out again he tries to crawl through the transom. Smith has the transom nailed down and Tim calls him on the telephone. Smith has the telephone connection cut. Tim walks along the cornice and so into the open window. Smith throws him out of the window. All day long Tim pursues Smith, and follows him home at night. Smith steals out the back way and goes to his club, leaving Tim on the steps. Smith has a good time at the club and rolls home about two in the morning with a couple of com- panions. Tim is asleep on the steps. He wakes and not only sells Smith the book, but he sells one to each of his friends. Can you see now how giving Tim an object to work for has made something of a story out of mere incident? Before we simply laughed when something happened to Tim, because it looked funny. Now there is a mental appeal as well. We are interested in Tim. We want to see him sell that book to Smith. Every time Tim meets a rebuff we are sorry for him even while we laugh and when, at last, he sells the book we are genuinely glad. The plot has given interest to the incidents. In the aim- less incident we might see Tim make twenty sales, and they would not interest us one-tenth as much as this one sale, because this is a story of the sale of that book. The story starts with the determination to sell the book and stops with the accomplishment of the sale. It might run on and on and tell how Smith acted when he woke the next morning and realized what he had done, how the 'books were delivered and all that, but this is the story of the sale of the book and stops when the sale is accomplished. Tim has sold other books and will sell others in the future, but they have nothing to do with the story. But if we were telling the story of Tim Green and how he came to the city and made enough money selling books to pay off the mortgage on the old home, the sale of that book to Smith would be only a part of the story. The sale of books to Jones and Brown and Black and White would also be parts of the story, for this story has a different plot in which the start is the fact that Tim determines to pay off the mortgage, the mid- dle is the sale of the books, which enables him to do so, and the end is the payment of the mortgage money. The story of the