We use Optical Character Recognition (OCR) during our scanning and processing workflow to make the content of each page searchable. You can view the automatically generated text below as well as copy and paste individual pieces of text to quote in your own work.
Text recognition is never 100% accurate. Many parts of the scanned page may not be reflected in the OCR text output, including: images, page layout, certain fonts or handwriting.
CHAPTER XLVIII 237 10. Now we have the idea pretty well laid out and proceed to draw up a sketch of the action. This will show: 1. Jack Radford is married to Ruth, who does not love him. 2. Ruth seeks diversion in a flirtation with Ned Flanders, a man about town. 3. Jim Cort, an old friend of Jack's, pays them a visit. 4. To divert the mild suspicion Jack feels. Ruth pretends to flirt with Cort. Cort does not respond, but she manages to be caught by Jack in a seemingly compromising position. 5. Jack is suspicions, but Cort's frankness disarms him of his fears. 6. Jack is sviddenly called from town. He leaves Ruth in Cort's care. 7. Ruth at once plans to elope with Flanders. S. Cort interrupts them, saying that he is called to South America. 9. Flanders destroys the note Cort has left for Jack and causes Ruth to write another in which she tells Jack she has gone with Cort. 10. On his return, Jack receives the note, believes and vows to be revenged. 11. In the course of time he learns that Cort has returned to Amer- ica. His South American venture has failed and he is prospecting in the west, determined not to come east until he has made good. 12. Jack goes west to find Cort and kill him. 13. Ruth and Flanders are in the mining town near Cort's camp. Flanders has become a sot and Ruth is befriended by a miner. Bill. 14. Jack arrives in town and is recognized by Flanders, but does not recognize Flanders. 15. In his terror Flanders drinks more heavily than usual. 16. Jack takes horses and goes in search of Cort. 17. Ruth, frightened at Jack's presence and disgusted with Flan- ders, begs Bill to take her away. He does so. Flanders follows. 18. Jack finds Cort. but seems unable to shoot him in cold blood. Cort suggests the duel with fate and Jack accepts. 19. Flanders overtakes Ruth and Bill and shoots both. 20. The sound of the shot rouses Jack and Cort. They accept the dictum of fate and renew their old friendship. 21. Flanders kills himself. 11. We are ready now to work on the action. The first require- ment is a decision as to where to break the reel. This is not very •difficult, for there is a natural break. The story is already in two