The Moving Picture Weekly (1917-1919)

THE MOVING PICTURE WEEKLY 13 For the first time Cheyenne sees — meet Flint in Diablo the following day. Meanwhile, at their rendezvous near Diablo, Black-Eyed Pete and his gang are splitting the spoils of a marauding expedition. Some of the men want to go to town, and they draw to see who is to leave — who to remain — and two of them, after the drawing, ride away. In Diablo Harry meets the two outlaws, who tell him they are cached up near the Big Rock. They seem to be friends. Danny and Ted, "Sweetwater" Sims' son and the idol of his heart, meet and enter the saloon at Diablo together. There they come upon Harry, who, on hearing that Ted is a Nestor, begins insulting him and firing at him desipte all that Danny can do to prevent it. Harry thinks he may as well begin doing his work now, and when Danny interferes he WONDERFUL Five Reel Western Butterfly Drama. Directed by Ford. CAST. "Cheyenne" Harry Harry Carey "Thunder" Flint Duke Lee "Sweetwater" Sims George Berrell His Daughter Joan Molly Malone His Son Ted Brooks Danny Morgan Hoot Gibson Black-Eyed Pete Milt Brown shoots at both of them. Danny dives through the window, while Ted runs up the stairs, climbs out the window onto the roof of the porch and jumps from there to his horse. The sheriff is summoned. Flint does not place all of his trust in "Cheyenne" Harry, and sends for "Placer" Fremont, a gunman of unsavory reputation. Fremont and Harry meet at the saloon; each is suspicious of the other; each handles his gun while he drinks. The sheriff warns Harry to leave town before morning, but the latter merely laughs insolently. Flint enters and sizes up the situation. His influence is strong in Diablo, even with the law, and the sheriff soon leaves. Harry asks Flint if Fremont is another "killer" he has imported. Flint introduces Harry and Fremont, who, because of their natural antipathy and "professional" jealousy, merely extend a casual greeting. Flint is surprised and assures them that there is no cause for trouble, as they are both on the same job and there is plenty of work to be done. Meanwhile Ted and Danny ride to the cabin to tell Sims that Flint's "killers" have arrived and to prepare for trouble. Joan is greatly agitated. The next day Ted goes for a bucket of water and finds a sign on a wire fence near the spring warning the public that the spring is private property and that trespassers will be shot on sight. Near the spring a burro is tangled in the wire and is trying desperately t o get loose. Ted tries to release the animal and starts to cut the wire. Fremont, hidden in a tree, seeing this, raises his rifle and fires at Ted, who rolls down the bank into the stream — dead. Joan tells her father where Ted has gone ; the older man is frantic with fear, The interest Joan and Danny took in each other. and they rush to the spring and are grieving over the body of the boy when Harry rides by. The father tells Harry that he supposes he is one of the "killers," come to gloat over their "dirty work," but Harry insists that he did not know of their trouble, that he is a man and doesn't make war on children and old men. They carry the old man, who is overcome with grief, to the cabin, where Harry tells Joan that if this is a sample of the work he was brought here for he's through (Continued on page 28) Old Nestor's curse on the cattle men over his sow's body.