The Motion Picture Director (1925)

The Director Do You Know? AUTO LOANS That my rate is cheaper and my method handier to you for individual loans. Contracts refinanced, private sales financed, etc. Phone me personally and 1 will call at your home, making all arrangements there. Your business held strictly confidential. CHAS. A. KITLEY Phone GRanite 0596 5 401 HollyWOod Boulcvard THUNDERING SILENCE Continued from Page 14 seemingly Impossible things. No wonder most of the books he had read were uninteresting and trashy. But, who killed John Morgan? . . . and why? Morgan had admitted that he had found the woman he loved, during the two years of his wanderings. Perhaps she was married. If so, it was v^ery logical to conclude that her husband had learned of the affair and had trailed Morgan to his home with the avowed intention of killing him. Again, it might have been someone who had cherished a hatred against the clubman for a long time : someone who believed he had been cheated in a business deal, and It had preyed on his mind so long that eventually, in a fit of terrible anger, he had come to the house to collect his vengeance. If this was true. It must have been some time previous to the past two years, for never once during the two years that he had played his strange role had he committed one act which would have an unpleasant effect upon the reputation of the man who had loaned him his name. If there was cause for such a thing it must have come from some action of Morgan’s in the past. Again, the motive might have been robbery. But that seemed quite remote. He recalled that nothing in the library was touched. The box, containing the money, was on the library table when he came back into the room: apparently where Morgan had left it. There was no evidence of a struggle having taken place during his short absence. Everything was in perfect order, and the only change in the scene was that a man who had been alive a few moments before was now lying dead on the floor with a bad hole in his head. For obvious reasons he had not taken the money with him. In the first place, he was not particularly fond of wealth. He was not one of those creatures who are everlastingly striving to make a dollar, and who, in their mad rush to obtain it, will step all over and crush their fellow-men. No, he was not one of that kind. There had been moments in his life when he hated money. But, as he now reflected, he realized those were usually the times when he needed it most. True, he had saved a considerable portion of the money he had made during the past two years. He would have been a fool not to have done so. But, it was only a few thousand dollars, or just enough to prevent extreme suffering in the future. It was not in any bank. He hated banks . . . always had hated them. If a man wants to save, and is really and truly serious in his desire to do so, he can do it without any outside encouragement. Most men were like children : they have to be promised a stick of candy In order to insure the desired results. True, but it’s a pity it is true. No, robbery could not have been the motive for the murder of John Morgan. However, he suddenly realized that the newspaper accounts of the tragedy made no mention of the $150,000. Where was that money? Were the police keeping the finding of this money a secret purposely? If so, why? He was more Inclined to believe that the police never found the money. Perhaps It had been stolen by one of the servants after he left the house. Regardless of where it was, or what had happened to it, he must remain silent. No matter what transpired In the future, Howard Chapin would not be able to speak. Any word from him would create a disturbance, the result of which he almost feared to contemplate, so tremendous would be its scope. It would hit her. And it would badly injure her. That would never do. He must protect her, at all costs. At such times It is always the innocent ones who suffer with the guilty, she must not suffer. As far as she is concerned, John Morgan committed suicide. Why he did it Is something which will have to be left to conjecture. It’s none of the public’s business if a man chooses to end his brief and miserable existence. He has a right to do with his own life as he sees fit. And, why he did it, should be none of its concern. He had made a poor attempt to solve the mystery, in a cautious way, so as to avoid meeting the police. Unexcelled Service and Quality Chester Bennett Film Laboratories PHONE 6363 SANTA MONICA BOULEVARD HEmpstead , , j 4154 Individuality Maintained 32