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298 SERIES AND SERIALS form the bulk of an exhibitor's audience, the probabilities are that both forms will continue to be made, since both are liked. 8. In the serial in which each installment is supposed to be rea- sonably self-contained, it is customary to get the continuing sus- pense from a question. The author does not leave the brave young hero on the railroad track with the train thundering down upon him. The section tells a more or less complete story, .but adds a remark to the effect that he cannot marry the lady of his choice as she happens to be his sister. The next installment may show how he proves that tlie girl is not related to him. but at the close the family lawyer enters with the announcement that he has just found that Harold is not the heir to the vast estates, but merely the son of a younger son and that it has been discovered that his uncle has an heir. In the next part Harold proves the forgery and is provided with some other little task. 9. In a slightly different form the installments may concern some object, perhaps a ruby stolen from the eye of the idol in some Indian temple. This is given to some person and the various parts end with the stone in a new ownership. Perhaps the first part shows the be- stowal of the stone upon Lucile, the daughter of Colonel Charteris. At the end of the fijrst installment the Colonel is found in the library with a Hindu dagger in his heart. In the second installment perhaps a band of thieves steal the stone, in the third part the East Indians get their innings, then Lucile s sweetheart regains it from them, and so, with the ending of each installment, the stone is found to be in new ownership until at last all the priests of the cult have been killed off or the stone is given up and Lucile is married and presented with a diamond tiara by the grateful priests. 10. Here the usual warnings against cross and counter plotting do not hold good, for the story will not be viewed as a whole, but as a two or three reel part of the whole and there can be a fresh sub- plot for each installment and an almost entirely new set of characters, if desired, only the chief personages appearing in each part of the serial. These plots do not conflict. One is taken up, played out and dropped. Another is employed and exhausted. Each is practically a single plot played out in one installment. The various plots are not threaded into the story like the various colors in a plaid, .but rather as a band of successive colors through all of which runs a single stripe of uniform color representing the chief players. If each plot is dropped with the end of a part and is not permitted to conflict with other plots, or if each of two or more plots is used in rotation without ref- erence to the others, then there is no limit to the number of plots that may be introduced other than the number of parts to the serial. In this it is not unlike the series story in which a central character moves through a succession of distinct plays, but here the general at- mosphere is retained and all of the chief characters appear in each part. IL This does not apply with as great force to the continuous serial. but here, as well, there may be several sub-plots if they are taken up