The Photo Playwright (Apr-Dec 1912)

a note to her father, telling him of her intention, and also makes a rope of the sheets of the bed and descends from the window. Billie arrives at the boathouse. On the dock are a number of boats piled one on top of another, so that one cannot see from one side to the other. Billy arrives on one side, looks at the water, gets cold feet and sits down to think, drawing his hat down. As he does so, Sallie arrives on the other side of the boat, throws her gloves and pocket-book on the pier, looks at the water gets cold feet and decides to wait. Those moments are fatal, for it gives the old people a chance to catch up and spoils the dual suicide, but Jenkins and Perkins make up and the merry Avar is called off. THE RAFFLE (Dec. 4). — Dela Hart and her husband, who are in danger of becoming hopelessly estranged, find a new interest in each other through the medium of a lottery ticket and a set of furs. Dela has an ardent admirer who wishes to present her with the furs. He secures a bogus lottery ticket and gives it to her. The furs are to be the result of the winning number on the ticket. All goes as expected. Dela gives the ticket to her husband and asks him to bring home whatever she has won. Unexpected complications result when Mr. Hart presents the furs to his pretty stenographer and brings home a book to his wife as the result of her winning. However, all ends well, and Dela and her husband really begin to become acquainted with each other. THE FACE AT THE WINDOW (Dec. 6). — Nina Auvray's childhood and youth have been lonely — spent with an eccentric and miserly old uncle. Th© house they occupy is an old-time dilapidated mansion. Old Auvray dies suddenly. No will can be found. Nin? is compelled to advertise the old home. A fine fellow buys the place, while Nina engages board in the village. Nina pines for the old house. At times she creeps up the hill and tearfully gazes at the closed windows and doors. Once, looking wearily about, she enters the house and goes through the rooms. Finally, overcome, she throws herself on the sofa and has a cry. It is here the new tenant finds her. Thus their acquaintance starts. Young Grey immediately sets about the repair of the old home and grounds. Two or three hands about the place he retains. One fellow, surly, and a hard driaker, Grey learns to distrust. After repeated and kind warnings regarding drunkenness, Lem Casey is discharged. He leaves cursing Grey. Nina one day is roaming through the woods, when she overhears Casey and a pal cursing and talking. Casey has planned to shoot Grey that night, and is gloating over the fact that Grey always sit by his desk, writing, within direct range of the south window. Nina, terrified, runs straight to her old home, waits for Grey to return, and in an ecstacy of terror and tears tells him all she has heard. Grey telephones for a couple of officers. Together they fix up a dummy at Grey's desk. Grey and the men hide in the thicket. Darkness falls. Lem Casey approaches. He shoots. .Casey turns to flee, but is knocked down by the man he supposed he had murdered. The next day, in locating the bullet, a secret panel is discovered, containing the lost will. Nina is a rich woman, and all ends happily. THE HATER OF WOMEN (Dec. 11). — Bob Burton, a confirmed womanhater, meets his chum Harry. On their way from New York Harry asks him to come to his home and introduces him to his sister. She teases the womanhater, pins a rose in his buttonhole and gets him to sit down on a sofa beside her. Harry says joshingly, "You are not such a woman-hater after all." Harry arrives at the club and tells his friends what a joke he has played on Bob. Thinking of a scheme, he makes a newspaper ad. saying that Bob wants a wife. Harry inserts the ad. in the newspaper and two of his chums go to Bob's house to watch this out to the end. The first arrival in answer to the ad. is an old maid. Harry directs her to the bouse, while he and his friends arrange a board so that they can look into the window and watch the proceedings. Bob Burton is very much surprised when the old maid shows him the ad. in the newspaper. She tries to make him marry her but he protests. The old maid goes out and discovers the boys looking in the window, hits one of them with an umbrella, and they all fail over the bench. The second arrival is a tough girl who gets into a wrangle with Bob, and he throws her out of the window, and she falls on top of the boys who are seated on the plank. She has her scraps with them and exits. The third arrival is a very buxom middle-aged lady, who on refusal of Bob to marry her, exits angrily, discovers Harry and chum outside and gives Harry a thrashing. 82