Universal Weekly (1914-1915)

10 THE UNIVERSAL WEEKLY UNIVERSAL MELTING POT WALLACE KERRIGAN MARRIES — BUT i Continued from Page 13. ) carry them off to pay the penalty for having attempted so rash a thing as a secret marriage. On their way to the station the couple were informed of the plot, and knowing what would result if they were cauglii they decided to motor to Carpenteria, just outside of town and catch the train there as it passed through. Anxiously the plotters awaited the coming of their victims. As the train moved slowly from the station, a fellow-conspirator rushed up and told of their quarry's plans. Jumping into a racing car that stood near, the entire gang started in a wild race to beat the train to Carpenteria. Just here comes the strangest part of it all, and what makes the story read more like a scenario than a real occurrence. The engineer on board the train was none other than "Hot Stuff" MeComas, father of Baby McComas of the Universal company, and personal friend •of the Kerrigans and the Riehdales. Realizing what the kidnappers were up to as they swung out into the road paralleling the track, he threw his engine wide open ;ind the wildest race of his railroad career was on. Good will and honest intention won the day. With a wail from the whistle and shriek from the grinding brakes, the train tore into the station a bare two hundred yards ahead of the auto. The couple, who had been watching the race in the distance, hurriedly boarded the train, leaving a crowd of discomfitted plotters standing helpless on the station platform. After a short stay in San Diego, the young people returned to Hollywood and the little vine-covered cottage that Mr. Kerrigan had long had in waiting for his bride . In recognition of past services, and as a concrete testimonial of their congratulations and best wishes for the future, the Universal company had waiting for the young folks what is said to be one of the most perfect silver chocolate and ■tea services ever sold through a coast jeweler. Trimmed with ebony and with a satin gold finish inside the pieces, each of them bears the simple monogram of the Kerrigans. "CHARLIE" DOES WORK OF SEVERAL HORSES. Aside from his importance as a part of the big Universal zoo at Universal City, California, "Charlie", one of the largest of the company's pachyderms, is also an indispensable factor in the work of erect ing the buildings of the new million dollar city. Dressed in a harness which weighs nearly 200 pounds, he is daily pressed into service in the moving about of great truck-loads of equipment and material used for construction purposes. While he was originally one of the most expensive beasts in the menagerie, through his willingness to work and accomplish what would otherwise require eight or ten horses, he has saved for the company almost the amount paid for him in the first place . When a team of horses or an auto truck gets hopelessly stuck in a chuck hole or at the foot of a steep hill, "Charlie" is pressed into service and in his slow, ponderous, dignified way, he puts his head against the rear of the load, and with apparently no effort moves it on to solid ground, where he stops and seems to chuckle to himself at the futility of the smaller animals and machine-driven contrivances. ^Charlie," Hig Universal Elephant, Making Himself Useful Around Universal City. "THE MASTER KEY" BY John Fleming Wilson FEATURING ROBERT LEONARD AND ELLA HALL START THIS WEEK. MORE PRINTS HAVE BEEN SOLD THAN EVER BEFORE ON ANY' SERIAL. BOOK IT EARLY OR YOU WILL BE LEFT. SEE Y'OUR EXCHANGE AT ONCE. "THE OPENED SHUTTERS" (Continued from Page 7.) As she and "Thinkright" reach the Mill Farm, near Portland, she sees the deserted old Tide Mill, with all its shutters closed. Imaginative, she says then and always after, that the old mill is sor rowing, and only love can open the shutters. Edna Derweut, a rich Boston girl, who owns a cottage on a nearby island, is a friend and disciple of "Thinkright's." He has taught her to be patient with the false social life which means so much to her mother. Each Summer she comes bu Hawk Island with Miss Lacey as chaperon. Sylvia becomes jealous of Edna and all her beauty, charm and wealth. "Think right" stops this trend of thought in the girl, and after several severe tussels turns her thoughts into the right road. She struggles bravely. Her uncle, penitent, arrives and is promptly taken with this niece he has never seen before. She forgives him. The next day Miss Lacey arrives at Hawk Island with Edna. This forgiveness is harder, but Sylvia, strong in her new right thinking, manages it. She is invited to the Derwent cottage for a visit. John Dunham, an old friend of Edna's, comes for a visit, and his fancy is quickly taken with the imaginative Sylvia, whom she rescued in Boston the month before. Sylvia has a strong talent for painting. She has done some things with pencil, but longs for paint. She has no money and is too proud to ask any of her relatives. In her heart she adores John Dunham. Edna's friend, but has held herself coldly toward him because she thought that he and Edna were engaged. Suddenly she discovers that he loves her. In her embarrassment she drops her book of sketches, and "Thinkright" finds pieces of brown paper covered with drawings, all showing much power and talent. Edna leagues Judge Trent in a plan, and Sylvia learns that she is to have lessons in painting. The winter passes. Sylvia is making rapid strides in her profession under Edna's special wing in Boston. Summer comes and she goes to the Mill Farm again for a visit. Walking alone on the edge of the river, she sees the shutters of the Tide Mill have opened and the windows are gleaming brightly. Just then John Dunham appears and asks her to go with him to the Tide Mill. It is open. The first floor is vacant, and so is the second. He asks her to go clear to th«top, and there she finds a luxuriantly ap pointed artist's studio. "Love opened the shutters." says John "I bought the mill and furnished this for my bride." The old story is told, and the shutters of life open wide for the girl who had lenrned to think right.