Reel Life (Sep 1914 - Mar 1915)

REEL LIFE Seventeen "June's Adventures in the Sanitarium!'' From the Reliance Serial By George Randolph Chester and Lillian Chester WHEN Gilbert B ly e , Tommy Thomas, Cunningham and Edwards saw the taxi in which rode June Warner and Mrs. Villard run over the side of the road, they told Scatti, their chauffeur, to put on all speed for the spot where the machine had disappeared. Blye and Cunningham rushed in to help June, while Edwards and Tommy Thomas went to the rescue of Mrs. Villard. Scatti sought to succor the other chauffeur. When they had succeeded in releasing the unconscious victims, they were put into the Cunningham limousine. Then Scatti drove full speed to the sanitarium to which he had been ordered by Blye. At' the sanitarium the injured man and the women were placed in the care of a Dr. Remert and Mary, the head nurse. Itwas found that June had broken no bones and that her only injuries were due to shock. Mrs. Villard' s ankle, however, had been hurt and she walked with a decided limp. Joe, the chauffeur, was hurt most of all. All were put to bed, and Mary gave them her' personal attention. Meanwhile, June's husband sat in his library listening to a report of his three detectives. When they told him they could get no trace of June, he flared up and discharged them instantly. One of them returned, however, and glancing round to be sure his colleagues were gone, said to Ned: "Give me one chance where I don't have to take their orders and I'll produce results." Ned was persuaded to retain him, though against his better judgment. Burton, the detective left Ned's house and entered a saloon. Going to one of a number of stalls, he fell into a seat. Then, from his pocket he took the picture of June, which Ned had loaned him for his last effort and looked steadily at it, stopping only long enough to swallow his' drink. Voices had been rising in the booth next to where he sat. Now he heard, with startling distinctness, something about a taxi accident, a pretty girl in blue, and a man with a black vandyke to the rescue. The person telling the tale, he presently made out, was a news photographer named Fredericks. He was showing a snap-shot of the accident to his companion. The detective crept round the edge of the booth CAST June Warner Norma Phillips Ned Warner J. W. Johnston Gilbert Blye , Arthur Donaldson Tommy Thomas Marguerite Loveridge Edwards • Ezra Walck Charles Cunningham Charles Mason Mrs. Villard Elizabeth Drew Episode Eight of 'Runaway June" Blye and the Others Reneiced Their Entreaties, but June Was Obdurate till he could compare the photograph with the one he held in his hand. Unquestionably, the two were identical. Seizing the picture, he rushed out of the saloon, and was gone before the photographer and his friend could recover from their astonishment. Burton tore straight to Ned's apartments. Together they went to Mrs. Blye. Then they phoned Blye's club, and learned that he was there. Burton, shadowed him at a safe distance when he came out, and at the Grand Central Station he saw Blye meet Mr. Villard, who had unexpectedly returned to New York. Noting the animated conversation which ensued, the detective decided that the thing for him to do was to follow Mr. Villard. At the sanitarium, June and Mary, the head nurse, had become friends. June was questioning Mary about her work. She felt sure that she would rather be a nurse, than companion to Mrs. Villard. When the matter was broached to Dr. Remert, however, he looked quizzically at the pretty applicant. "Wait just a moment," he said. "The chief is here and I'll ask him what he thinks of it." A little later, he returned to assure her that it was all settled. And June, delighted beyond measure, was put to work in attendance upon Joe, the chauffeur. When Dr. Remert asked her to come with him, as the chief had requested to see his new nurse, she followed, obediently — only to find herself under the scrutiny of Gilbert Blye. "Are you the chief?" she cried in confusion and dismay. An enigmatical nod and smile were his reply. June flared up. She tore off her apron, declaring that she would never work in any place where she should be dependent upon him, her persecutor. Then she allowed herself to be persuaded by Mrs. Villard to re-enter her employ and at once Blye and the others renewed their entreaties to her to join in their yachting trip. But June was obdurate. In the meanwhile, Burton and Ned had hurried to the Villards' estate. When, that night, the automobile with Blye's party turned in at the gate, Ned sprang forward, out of the shrubbery, to intercept the machine. But two pairs of strong arms reached out and seized him. And the motor rushed past.