The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1919-05-03
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
THE TIGERS
! TRAIL
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THE CAST.
THE TIGER WORsHIPPERS.
First Episode)

OI GPloOdCJs
In order to understand clearly the
first episode of 1.-The Tigers Trail"
Pathe's great serial starring Ruth Ro-
land, it is necessary to recount a ser
les of adventures which happened
some time before the Serial proper
begins. Three adventures, Peter
Strong, Grim" Gordon and Colonel
Boyd had chartered a vessel and gone
to East India in search of treasure.
Before leaving their ship to go ashore
they drew up and signed an agreement
to share equally any treasure they
found, and that, in case any of them
met death in their adventure his share
was to go to his heirs. Having made
this Pact of Three they tore it into
three pieces and each took one.
Strong and Gordon retained their frag-
ments of the Pact but Colonel Boyd,
before embarking for shore, called Bill
Boland, Captain of the ship, aside, and
gave him his piece of the Pact with
instructions to give it to his daughter
Belle in case of accident. After land
ing the three adventures encountered
a tribe of natives known as 1.-The Tiger
Worshippers" whose god was the I'll
ger. They found no treasure but sue
ceeded in securing a Tiger Idol which
the natives looked upon as the symbol
of their religion. A thrilling fight en-
sued between the adventures and
the natives and only Grim Gordon
reached the ship alive with the Tiger
Idol. He returned to America and
shortly discovered a wonderful prop
erty of the Tiger Idol. When it came
near Radium it's eyes glowed with liv-
ing fire. This property of the Idol
made Gordon a rich man since with
the Idol he located a tremendous de-
post of Pitch Blonde, the mineral
from which Radium is extracted.
AS the Serial opens Grim Gordon
is living in a mansion near his mines.
He has taken Belle Boyd, the daugh-
ter of his old partner in the Pact of
Three, and has educated her at a fash
ionable school in the East. Working
in his mines are a great many Hindus
and among them are a number of the
Tiger Worshippers under the leader
ship of a Hindu named Salogna.
They are determined to secure the
Idol. They have a mysterious hold
over a man known as Tiger Face
whose face is marked in peculiar fash
ion so that his countenance is more
that of a Tiger than of a human being.
Also in the employ of Salonga and the
Tiger Worshippers is Bull" Shotwe1l,
leader of a notorious band of cowboy
outlaws. All of these factors are CEN
tered upon one ambition-to secure
the Tiger Idol, but as the Serial opens
they have been unsuccessful after
many attempts.
Belle Boyd home from her
school in the East to live with her
Guardian Gordon, and on the train she
encounters Jack Randall, a cookbook
ing young engineer, who is going West
to accept a position in connection with
Gordon's mines. AS Belle steps from
the train. Bull" Shotwell and his
gang attempt to kidnap her but are
frustrated by Jack Randall who Gusts
the entire gang.
Belle then goes on to the Gordon
home and meets her Guardian who
tells her that when her father appoint
ed him as her Guardian it was under
stood that she should marry Gordon's
son, Casper. But Belle is not ready to
marry yet and she tells her Guardian
so. That night Captain Bill Boland
calls on Gordon for a sum of money.
It will be remembered that he had
Colonel Boyd's fragment of the Pact
of Three and by promising one day