Paramount Press Books (1917)

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While he is in the hospital Mike sees an advertisement of an art exhibit and believing that the twenty-five cents admission entitles her to exhibit her wares, takes two little statuettes that she and Blackie have made and places them on display. One peculiar little character she has named "The Trouble Buster." An art dealer with a commercial eye sees in it the same possibilities of popular success as the "Billiken" or "Kewpie," and when Mike is asked as to the ownership, she gives the credit for the successful one to Blackie. The latter is at once made a social pet and his fortune assured, for the little "Trouble Busters" prove extremely popular. He is taken to a famous hospital in France where his sight is restored . In the meantime Mike is recognized by one of the orphan asylum patrons and flees in terror from the art exhibit. She resumes her girl's clothing and secures a position in a distant part of the country in a large country estate. There she is found again by the crook. Tip Morgan, who threatens to tell that she is the real designer of "The Trouble Buster" unless she gives him money . Mike has rescued the old piano box and now has it for a playhouse in the garden of her new home. In the meantime Blackie has recovered and starts out to find Mike. He tells everyone that it was Mike who designed "The Trouble Buster." He finally locates her just as she is being again blackmailed by Tip. Blackie drives the crook away and when Michelna asks him what he came baok for, he draws her close to him answering, "For the love of Mike . " 19