The Moving Picture Weekly (1920-1921)

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THE MOVING PICTURE WEEKLY •17 Tke Result of a Brave Man s Blunder. America Had Paid Him Her Higkest Award But He Tkrew it Away Because He Treasured It Too Muck ^ALLIE" MASON was one of America's heroes. High above the battlefields of France he had outfought the Boche airmen, and when he returned to America he possessed the one treasure that compensates such men for their bravery — a tiny piece of metal and ribbon — the Croix de Guerre. Only one thing did Wallie Mason prize above this priceless bauble, and that was the love of Beryl Carruthers. Like many other men of his strange mold, he was not the master of himself. His physical incapacity as the result of dissipation would have cost him his life had not his chum, Larry Cassidy, saved him by climbing into his ship in midair and bringing it safe-, ly to earth. Then, as a token of his love, he sent the Croix de Guerre to Beryl Carruthers, and it fell into the hands of his rival. Van Arland, the leader of the Death's Head Squadron of air pirates. Van Arland gave Mason a gambler's chance to recover the cross, but Wallie lost, not only the cross and his money, but his soul of honor. Driven to desperation, he staked upon the last unsuccessful turn of the cards his promise to assist Van Arland in the robbery of the midnight mailship. That night, Wallie Mason, like a man in delirium, forfeited everything that the Croix de Guerre symbolized in his life. « 1^ ■ ■ , Cdrl Laemmle 'CREATAIRRDBBEKlf&S' Univeryal Jewel Production de luxe