Motion Picture Story Magazine (Aug 1912-Jan 1913)

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6') TTIE MOTION PICTURE STORY MAGAZINE THE SPY SMILES AT THE REWARD She pushed back the broad, flapping brim of her hat, and mischief darted into her eyes. "Mr. Government, ' ' she said, reaching out and tearing off the poster, " I 'm going to accept the invitation to your party. ' ' A girlish laugh, fresh as rippling water, echoed thru the forest, and for an instant she tilted back her head to give play to a slender throat, exposing teeth and lips as cleanly white and red as a hound's. Then, as if fleeing from a too persistent suitor, she put spurs to her horse and continued her flight thru the green and silent cleft. After some two hours' hard riding, the woods gave way to clearings, half swamp, half field, with crescent shaped pools of stagnant water, where the streams had overflowed. But her eyes were above the dead level of this mixed pestilence and fertility, searching for the church spire of the town in the bottoms. "Dear old Corinth," she sighed, as the far-off, familiar steeple glistened in the noonday sun, "your old maid's heart does not realize how close war and hatred and lust have crept to you, nor ever will, perhaps, until it is too late. May nothing more red than your rambling roses," she prayed aloud, "redden your walls, and nothing more fearful than the call of a wild gobbler in the woods disturb your morning's sleep." Rows of distant shelter-tents, white, like lines of breaking surf, began to