The Moving Picture Weekly (1916-1917)

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-THE MOVING PICTURE WEEKLY 29 later seen talking together by Cathcart. Jim wires his mother that he will come to her, that she need not fear Cathcart another day, for he, Jim, has a good position now. Cathcart demands that Raymond tell what he and Jim were talking about and when the young fellow refuses to obey, Cathcart discharges him and RajTnond shouts his denouncement at Cathcart and threatens to get even with him. Cathcart immediately leaves for "The Pines" with a presentiment of unforseen danger haunting him. Margaret, having borne Cathcart's brutality long enough, now arms herself with a small revolver. He arrives at "The Pines," but she locks her door against him; he threatens her and sends Shepherd to the village for a locksmith, but Shepherd goes only a short distance, for he meets a man who proffers to give the message to the locksmith. Shepherd returns to the lodge. Jim arrives in the village, asks directions of the station agent and stops to eat at a tavern where he again asks the way to "The Pines" and where the landlord is frightened by the fierce expression on his face. He finally sees his mother, having entered the house through the French windows, and promises to take her away the next day. He leaves, being seen by Milly and Taylor, and getting caught in a rain storm soon afterward, seeks shelter in a deserted hut, where Steve is now trying to sleep. He thinks Steve a boy and the following morning they become friends. It was a quarter after ten the night before when the two heard the village clock chime. Raymond finds the note by Steve and, thinking Cathcart responsible, goes to the village tavern to find his father and there tells the landlord that Steve has gone away and that Cathcart has discharged him; he is now on his way to "get" him. That night Cathcart is killed, the coroner asserting, by some heavy object, and at about 10:15 o'clock. Milly testifies to seeing Jim lurking about "The Pines," to the message sent him by Margaret and to the wire received from Jim. She tries to avert suspicion from Raymond, the station agent, the landlord at the tavern and Shepherd, all admit that they saw Jim. Jim has been taken prisoner and the evidence tightens more closely about him each day. Margaret hires one of the best lawyers available, and he soons learns that Jim's only chance is in finding Steve, who can furnish the only conclusive evidence in his favor, for she knows he was a mile away from the house at 10:15 o'clock. But Steve has reached the coast and has succeeded in hiding on a small boat, which is now at sea. Accidentally she reads the advertisement for herself, which says that a man's life depends on her. She makes herself known on the boat, but the wireless is out of order and the boat does not land for two weeks. When it does land, she tells her story and starts back to the village in company with two government officials. Meanwhile, Margaret can bear the suffering of her son no longer and says she killed Cathcart, but Jim urges the court not to believe her. Steve" sees herself a female Robinson Crusoe^ Then the landlord who heard Raymond's threat to "get" Cathcart, testifies and suspicion is cast at Raymond. Robert Shepherd now stands and confesses that he killed Cathcart, because, returning to the lodge the night he was sent for the locksmith, he found Cathcart there struggling with Bess. Cathcart's brutality^ to her aroused for the first time in his life an overpowering passion of hate which could be wiped out only by killing. Steve, arriving in the court, has, however, cleared him before Shepherd's confession is given. Shepherd is later acquitted on the plea of temporary derangement. Some time has passed. An odd wedding takes place in the deserted hut where Jim and Steve first met. The only witnesses of the ceremony are Raymond and Milly. There just has to be a touch of romance attached to everything concerned with Steve, and it is her idea that she and Jim. are married in this hut. Old Man Taylor, because of the shock to his weak mentality, caused by the murder of Cathcart, dies and Raymond mourns his father as much as if he had been one of the best. The simple wedding which ends forever "Steve's" dream of adventure. Neal Hart, star of "Squaring It,* a Bison three-reel feature soon to. make its appearance, has signed sk. long-time contract with the Univer~ sal. Hart is the actor's real name> and he is intensely proud of his family