Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1913-07-05

cylinder car. George is talking in what
looks like a low, earnest voice, but
Susie refuses to be interested Sudden
ly he pulls from his pocket a telegram
Susie sits up suddenly. And well she
may. For the film Announces that the
contents of the telegram are to the ef-
feet that Harold has gone to the West
to marry another What other we do
not know.
We now behold Susie weeping at a
desk in a room so full of furniture that
no burglar could get half wag across
it without Weakening up all the people
in the next block. In her little hand
she holds the telegram for a time, then
tears it spitefully into bits that flut-
ter out on the breeze that is blowing
the Valenciennes curtains in twelve
windows. George enters. He looks at
the fragmentary telegram and sneers.
Then he looks at Susie and smiles.
Presently he engages in more low earn
est conversation, and you Judge he is
describing his yacht, his bank account
and his country place at Mamaroneck.
But Susie shrinks from these things.
And you naturally wonder how George
could hope to tempt with his wealth
a girl who has in a single room six.
teen chairs, three sideboards, a chiff-
onier, two cheval glass mirrors, q chi.
ma closet, three decks of sectional book.
cases, a grand piano and an upright
phonograph.
But evidently George knows more
of Susie's disposition than we do. He
points to the telegram and sneers, this
time for three seconds. Susie sits bolt
upright and thinks. Then she rises and
PAGES the floor, deftly threading her
way in and out among the furniture
like a guide in the north woods. At
last she mods her head, but when.
George approaches enthusiastically she
shakes it. Apparently she is going to
get used to him by degrees.
Here in the West, which is denoted
by lonely cabin in a stone quarry, is
Harold. He is sitting by rire exam.
ming nuggets Evidently none of them
are good for much but concrete work.
But now he leans. forward intently and
examines one. Reaching for the only
article If wardrobe in evidence, coat,
he dashes madly from the room and
we next behold him entering an open.
ing in the stone quarry, through which
trickles a rivulet. Bending over the
rivulet, he picks up more nuggets. cat
last " are the words we see plainly
on his lips. They are subsequently
verified by the text on the screen.
Harold re.enters the lonely cabin
and carefully hangs the coat on the
same nail. A rough, unshpved person
enters and hands him a letter. He
opens it, His face clouds. Bad news
from home, we conjecture, Right.
Mighty bad news. Harold is being in
vited TO Susie's wedding and George
is going to be the bridegroom,
Throwing the newly found nugget
out Of the window, Harold hurredly
leaves the room.
Here comes the Overland Limited.
Nearer end nearer till we fear IL will
collide with the audience. But across
the track suddenly darts q man wav.
ing a campaign hat. II is Harold. win
he be run overt No. The train stops.
Harold climbs on The train moves
into nothingness Just as we duck to
avoid being hit by the pilot.
A the same old station Harold
alights. He commanders an automo-
bile, and, taking the wheel, departs
while the owner Indignantly shakes his
fist after him.
! Same room, full of same furniture
but further embellished with wed.
! ding bell and a minister. Enter Har.
old from one door and Susie from an.
other, Harold steps forward Just as
George attempts to sneer. hut doesn Z,
land the beautiful little Susie.
being in something of dilemma, gets
out Of it neatly by fainting. George
attempts 70 sneer, but doesn't get
away with II. The "A Harold has in
his hand interferes. Evidently there
are explanations. Susies father, n
gentleman with limousine body,
comes in and revives her George, dis.
covering that his fake telegram has
been exposed, sneers for the last time
and goes out a window. Harold folds
Susie to his stalwart breast. The min.
lister steps forward and the play is
done.
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