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M'liss 1 Perched like an eagle's nest in the High Sierras, far from the pulse of com- merce, is the mining town of Red Gulch.
2
MARY PICKFORD
as
M'LISS
(Which, in the lingo of
Red Gulch, means - "Limb of Satan").
3 "Bummer" Smith, the father of M'liss, lost his fortune in the gold mines. Now his only investment which pays a dividend is - Hilde- garde, the hen!
Theodore Roberts.
4 Judge Joshua McSnaggley,
an exponent of the
"statoots". A gentleman, a scholar - and a prohibi- tionist! Tully Marshall.
5 Sandy Waddle,
the sheriff - and
Mexican Joe, his deputy. William Brown. Monte Blue.
6 "- I got him!"
7 Yuba Bill, the driver of
the Slum Gullion Stage.
Charles Ogle.
8 Charles Gray, the new schoolmaster, on his way to Red Gulch. Thomas Meighan.
9 A tense, dramatic moment
to a notorious outlaw
..... the stage coach ap- proaches!
10
"What you brung me
.... Yuba Bill?"
11
"Hands up, stranger -
or I'll pump you full of rocks!"
12
"Drive on - like hell
bent fer election!"
13 There's one advantage to the D. T.'s ..... You carry your own Zoo!"
14
"Howdy! Will yer lady
friend have a drink?"
15
"Think you'll have a purty
nice cabin here - after you weeds out the rattle-snakes. Last feller lived here - died of 'em."
16
"If I asks you if the jack
rabbit that just passed us - wore a green hat with yellow tassels - you wouldn't sass the old man, would you, Melissie?"
17
"This licker ain't got no
more kick 'n a dead mule!"
18 In San Francisco, 'Bummer' Smith's brother, Jonathan, a wealthy pioneer, turns his face toward the Sunset Trail.
19 Clara Peterson, for three
years Jonathan Smith's
nurse. Winnifred Greenwood.
20 Her brother, Jim Peterson,
hopes to find in his
employer's will, a reward for their services. Val Paul.
21
"The old skinflint! Only
a thousand for us - and leaving all that money to a brother he hasn't seen for fifteen years."
22 [title includes animated musical notes and chicken] Rock-a-bye ba-by -
23
"M'liss! Shut up that
squawkin' - you're dis- turbin' Hildegarde."
24 "Larnin'" now becomes
a pleasant pastime to
the "gals" of Red Gulch.
25
"I been goin' to this here
school for over ten years - an' no teacher ever licked ME!"
26
"Why don't you come
to my school, M'liss?"
27
"I seen what you done
to Bub - that's enough!"
28 Crocodile tears - for the passing of Jonathan Smith.
29
"Beddie, beddie, 'Bummer'
dear .... an' durned quick!"
30
"I d-don't w-wanta go
to b-bed."
31 Parson Bean (from
Boston) - converts
a sinner. John Burton.
32
"I hear you're the 'bad
man' around here, Mexican Joe - and I'm not looking for trouble."
33
"What's the matter, School-
marm - fidgety?"
34
"If you boys don't stop
this arguin' - I'm goin' to git mad in a minute!"
35
"Mex - now go home
and tell your mama that your schoolmarm spanked you!"
36
"I hear Hildegarde
knocking at the door."
37
"You'll be layin' bad eggs
..... galavantin' around 'til this hour of night!"
38 According to the local his-
torians - nothing hap-
pened of interest for the next few days, until .......
39
"Boy's - there's trouble
brewin'! Smith's wild-cat ain't become a kitten - fer nothin'!"
40
"What you got there,
Melissie?"
41
"None of your -*-!
- ??? - !!! business!!!"
42
"Accordin' to the 'statoots'
- Yuba - we've a right to arrest M'liss."
43
"An I'll lick the first feller
who attempts it! That's the particular kind of a darned fool I am!"
44 A Solemncholy
Moment.
45
"'Twarn't her face
that broke this after- noon, Yuba."
46 "'Twere my heart!"
47
"- it's the only chance
I ever had to be a grand- father."
48 How seriously M'liss
was affected by this
tragedy we are about to prove ---
49
"I come to be
teached."
50
"If you come here you
must be a good girl. They tell me you swear worse than your poor, drunken father -"
51
"It's a damn lie! I don't
swear! An' he ain't a drunk- ard - he's haunted!"
52
"Where in blazes did
Missy Pug Nose git them feathers on her hat?"
53 And now - there hap-
pens - a miracle!
54 And the "villun" still
pursued her!
55
"M'liss, these be strange
doin's ... I'm skeered you've been a-drinkin'!"
56
"I don't keer - fashions is
fashions! Anyways she's moltin'!"
57 The end of a perfect tale.
58
"Hello, Dominguez! When
did you leave 'Frisco' for this part of the country?"
59
"I'm known as Mexican
Joe - here! And what's more - you never knew me in 'Frisco' - sabe?"
60
"There's 'Bummer' Smith
- the man you're lookin' for."
61
"Teacher! What do
you do with these little fellers?"
62 Once a year, the School Board meets to see how the children are worrying through their "ejjication".
63
"M'liss - who was
the first man?"
64
"Washington - Jedge.
First in war, first in -"
65 "Wrong!... 'Twere Adam."
66
"Oh, of course -
if you're speakin' of foreigners!"
67
"Children, what air
grammar?"
68
"I'm feared, Jedge - it's
somethin' that you knows nothin' about."
69
"You were impudent,
M'liss. And you cannot remain for the rest of the exercises."
70
"- so, children, when
Joshua commanded the sun to stand still - it obeyed him!"
71
"It's a damn lie! And
I don't believe it!"
72 While the "Infernal Femin-
ine" is on her way to
the Schoolmaster's cabin with a Peace offering --
73
"M'liss is backward in
her lessons, but I'm com- ing up here in the even- ings to help her."
74
"'Bummer' - who was
with you last?"
75 "- the schoolmaster."
76
"Poor old 'Bummer'
has been stabbed in the back."
77
"Which is correct -
brung or brang?"
78 "Why - bring."
79
"All right - I bringed
you a present!"
80
"- also to ask if you
was goin' to marry that Missy Pug Nose?"
81
"Very well, then - I'll
marry you myself!"
82
"Now that you have made
up our minds - when is the wedding?"
83
"When I'm growed up
- an' that's -"
84 "- pretty soon!"
85
"You must listen to
me, M'liss."
86
"- I've got some
awful bad news."
87
"What's the matter,
Yuba ... did your wife come back?"
88
"They've got the feller
that killed your old man. Come on an' see him."
89 Three weeks later. A murder trial - "far and squar" - according to the "statoots".
90 Being a man of city "re- finements" - Peterson is made foreman of the Jury.
91
"'Bummer's' last
words were .... 'the schoolmaster'!"
92
"Parson! You're a
darned fool!"
93
"M'liss - you're
no lady!"
94
"All I wants to know is
- what was M'lissa doin' in the schoolmaster's cabin?"
95
"Suppose you blowed
my head off! Then how was I to git through with this here trial?"
96
"Time to wash up fer
dinner, folks. Court adjourns."
97
"All the principal wit-
nesses kin jine me at the bar."
98 The plot curdles - with the arrival of another stranger.
99
"Can you tell me where
Mr. John Benson Smith lives?"
100
"Maybe she means
'Bummer' Smith."
101
"I have come from San
Francisco to find him. I - am his wife."
102
"You mean, Ma'am, that
you are his widder. Mr. John 'Bummer' Smith has - er - er - lately kicked the bucket."
103
"Tell the folks, ma'am,
all that you've told me."
104
"... my husband and I
quarreled - he left, taking our baby with him. And I have just been able to trace him."
105
"... you can picture
the grief of a poor de- serted wife - and mother."
106 "She's a liar!"
107
"My mother died before
I was born!"
108
"Accordin' to the
'statoots' - t'aint possible!"
109
"He's innocent, Jedge
- ain't you got no sense?"
110
"No! Accordin' to the
'statoots', I don't have to have none!"
111
"Don't you know your
own mother, dear?"
112
"No thanks! An' I
don't want to be interdooced!"
113
"This Court needs
a recess."
114 The gentle jury
ponders.
115
"- murdered in cold
blood, a poor defense- less old man!"
116
"Somethin's crooked,
M'liss, or Peterson wouldn't be so agin' the school- master!"
117 When life hangs
by a thread.
118 "- Guilty!"
119
"It's agin' the 'statoots'
.... but I'm only goin' to sentence Gray to sixty years in the Slum Gullion jail."
120
"This old marriage license
found among 'Bummer' Smith's papers, and the death certificate signed by Judge McSnaggley, will help to establish your claim!"
121
"We cannot be seen
leaving together. I will follow in a few days."
122 The miners, incited by
Mexican Joe, resent
Judge McSnaggley's MILD decision!
123
"- a man ain't tryin' to
fasten a crime on another - unless it's to hide his own dirty tracks!"
124
"- AN' I'M GOIN' TO RUN
THAT MURDERER DOWN! .... That's the particular kind of a darned fool I am!"
125
"They're goin' to lynch
him, Sheriff. You ain't goin' to let an innocent man die in a rat trap?"
126
"Law is law! I daren't
let him escape."
127 "Peterson!"
128
"You skunk! You've
squealed ...."
129
"You can't hang Bummer
Smith's death on me. You paid me to do it!"
130
"I left the horse on
the grade. I couldn't go away without saying goodbye."
131
"Say, Sheriff! How
about a little ...... necktie party?"
132
"No Siree. I represent
the law. No lynchin'!"
133
"They got 'em - the
murderers confessed they done it to git a fortune that belongs to Melissie."
134
"Yuba Bill, you're
just one of them - angels!"
135
"Yep, that's the partic-
ular kind of a darned fool - I am!"
136
"This ought to be
a lesson to you two fellers."
The End
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