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KalEm Company — The International Producers.
Paul Hurst Carlyle Blackwell
A DANGEROUS WAGER
IN a spirit of fun Jack wagers with Ned that he can hold up the stage coach with his straight-stem pipe. It happens that both men are in love with Grace and Ned sees an opportunity to gain the ascendancy over his rival.
Ned takes passage on the coach and with the other travelers turns over his valuables to the supposed highwayman. In gathering up the passengers’ belongings that he may return them and claim his wager, Jack inadvertently leaves his pipe by the roadside and it is picked up by an Indian.
Meanwhile the stage returns to inform the authorities and Ned accompanies the Sheriff’s posse to capture the -robber. They meet Jack on his way home and the young man is overwhelmed when
Ned repudiates the wager. As Jack has lost his pipe he cannot convince the Sheriff that he has merely been perpetrating a joke.
A trial is held and the evidence of Ned and the other passengers convicts Jack. The Sheriff and deputies lead Jack to a lonely tree for the execution.
Grace is almost prostrated with grief and coming to the stage house implores her friends to intercede for Jack — but to no avail. Just as she is about to abandon hope, the Indian who has been sleeping on the porch extracts the pipe and begins to fill it. Grace recognizes the pipe as Jack’s and orders the Indian to accompany her to the tree, where her sweetheart’s innocence is established.
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