Motion Picture Story Magazine (Feb-Jul 1911)

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28 THE MOV IN G PICTURE STORY MAGAZINE 'ALL RI . TELL ME THE RES IN THE MORNIN . exit, leaving his father declaiming violently to hide his own sudden flood of tenderness. It was several days later that Bob and the faithful Jenkins arrived at Midland, the closest railroad station to Star Ranch, where Henry Jones raised the cattle whose flanks bore the Lone Star of the State. Jones and Ford had been college chums, had entered the same fraternities, and each, in his way, had been successful. Jones had been advised by telegram of Bob's coming but the wire had mentioned no train, and the travelers had made better time than was expected. For his old chum's sake he was glad to take Bob in, but he did not like the idea of having a roystering young chap from the city where his pretty and susceptible daughter, Flora, might fall in love with him. It was well after train time when his foreman arrived -in town for the mail, and dropped into the hotel to ask the clerk to send Bob on to the ranch on his arrival, and in that interval Bob had been inspired with an idea. The idea came from Bob's knowledge that Jenkins carried a letter to Jones from the elder Ford. It was unsealed and Bob grinned as he read it thru. It was not a long letter but right to the point : New York. May 7, 1910. My dear Harry. — ■ My son, Eobert, has been on a spree and needs bracing up. Take care of him for me and give him plenty of hard work. Jenkins, his valet, who hands you this, will assist you in keeping him straight. May come out later myself. Your old schoolmate, Henry Ford. « "Jenkins !" Bob's tone was of judicial severity. "I don't like this idea of hard work. I think that we'll just