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room. "I will explala more fully to be alive! Look the part, give me Sarpedon, to-day: Sir Samuel · H. I swear to you that if once more your interpretation of human eme-Wilson, G.C.M.G., K.C.B., Lady see that schwein-hund with you Itions! I cannot direct you in that! Samuel H. Wilson, Mr. G. E. J. shall not be responsible for my... you are supposed, to be an Gent, Mr. & Mrs. A. H. Boyd, Miss actions." Ho grasped her. arm actor!”
P. J. Boyd, Mr. E. J. Church, Mr. & again, and his nails bit into her The star shrugged his shouldera Mrs. C. Gray, Mr. A. G. Howe, Mrs. flesh, She wrenched herself free. and walked off. Sturm moved over L. H. King, Mr. & Mrs. W. J. King, "You're hurting me! Listen, to the camera and sarveyed the Miss Angela King, Mrs. Malcolm & Walter; this had to come some time, scene through the lens. He nodded 2.chlidren, Mrs. A. J. Miller, Miss and it might as well be now. 1.his. satisfaction, and then turned to Sarah Mitchell, Mrs. W. A. Nowers too, am finished finished with Tina, who still lay in the spot light. & infant, Master J. R. Nowers, Miss "All right, Tina, you can get up." J. E. Nowers, Mr. & Mrs. R. Pat- The woman took no notice.
terson & child, Mr. & Mrs. Penning, "Tinal" the director bellowed, Mr. & Mrs. J. A. Plummor, Mr. & "I do. I'm tired of this unending "we've finished the lighting; you Mrs. Powell & infant, Captain J.| inquisition. I'm finished, and I'm can get up."
Pringle, Mrs. B. Thompson. glad of it!"
you!"
"Leah!
mean that?"
•
Leah, you don't
Still there was no answer or All the pent-up emotions of hatred movement from the woman on the (and anger glared in the German's floor. Malcolm Vaughan crossed eyes. With a hoarse cry he caught over to her and dropped suddenly on ther by the throat.
Jone knee by her side.
"Then, so help me! You are finished with everything!"
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Consignees of Cargo ex 5.A. "My God!" he said, "she's faint-Benarty are reminded to take de- ed. Quick! Get mo some water"livery of their goods which will His plump fingers dug into her The director raised his eyebrows, be subject to rent after December, neck and she gasped for breath. "You'd better call a doctor in that 27.
"Waller!. ." The choking case," he said, and sat down in his scream cleaved the air Da ajchair.
let me go!
have no illusions about that "Walter, don't!! Vaughan turned and faced the she allowe me none! But I love
you're choking German.
her!" He peered into the other's me... Walter! ... Oh...P "My God, Storm! You've treat-face. "Strange, is it not? ... The nerve-shattering shrlek broughtied her pretty roughly... Look at love her.". the man to his senses. He stared the marks on her neck!"
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The camera man had pushed hie in a dull, uncomprehending way at The German waved his hands in way between the two men. the inert figure in his arms. Then, disdain.
"Hey! Steady!"
as though the full realisation of his "So!
F
I was carried away!”. "Sturm! Calm yourself!" falter-
no
act had suddenly dawned upon him, "But, good heavens, man, there's cd Vaughan. the drew his hands away and the no excuse for this" The actor The arrival of the doctor put an body slipped in a lifeless heap to the caressed the woman's neck. "Poor end to further scenes. He pushed floor. He turned to the window.
Jittle Tina," he murmured. "Poorhis way through the group of elec-: For perhaps three seconds there darling.. And then to Sturm:tricians clustering round Tina, who was profound silence, then suddenly"You'd no excuse
With had been placed in a chair. the murmur of voices made him The German's face had undergone professional quickness he examined turn, and he smiled.
an amazing change during the last her, then straightened with a quick He looked at the woman on the few seconds. A vein stood out on intake of breath. ground.
his livid forehead, and he lurched "Who did this?" he asked sharply. "Right!" he said, "Now hold that from his chair.
"There was a deàd silence. position, Tina. That's where I "No excuse, you say.
"Why?" asked Sturm slowly. want you to fall, and that's how I excuse! Ach! Don't be auch, a The doctor, drew himself to his want the scene to be played!" fool, man.
Do you think I am more full height and faced the German. The studio, was once more a hive blind than friend 'Walter in our "Because she's dead," he said of industry. The scene which the film? director had just rehearsed had held noticed all. them spell-bound by its Intensity. Ing
the looks puss. There was a strangled cry from between you two? Malcolm Vaughan, Now, the spell was broken, and the way you have played) As for Hugo Sturm, he was per- camera men, electricians, and artists those love scenes!
So fectly composed. Vaughan was the wiped the perspiration from their charming. So real!, No first to break the uncanny silence.. forehends. Hugo Sturm, the excuse, you Bay!" He grasped "Dead!... Sturm, you've killed famous German director, called Vaughan by the arm, "I have every | her!... Do you hear? You're a across the set.
excuse! For weeks when I have murderer). By God, you shall hang "Good! I want a spot light on kissed her she has shut her eyes for this you shall hang!. Misa Tina
and dim those and imagined it was you! When I There was a dead silence. Then: floods, will you! Camera to shoot hold her to me, it is in your arms "O.K.!” shouted an American here!" He motioned with his arm. she is resting! No excuse! Do voice somewhere outside it all. Malcolm Vaughan strolled across you both think I am blind?” · "Cut! That was awell! You c'n to the German and proffered his? The actor blanched. manuscript.
"Sturm!" he cried,
"Herr Sturm, I haven't half that dialogue in my script."
Sturm waved it aside.
Do you think I've not quietly.
The director pushed him away. "No, Vaughan, I don't attach much blame to you She is
break for lunch, boys and girls. How do you feel, Tina, after the choke ?"
The "dend" woman rose from the chair and straightened hor, hair.
"Pretty hungry," she said.
"Then do as I did," he grunted, always doing it. always, when "let yourself go! ... Put in your my back is turned, when she thinks And the filming of "The Studio jown lines! Are these amateur I do not sce! She married me, not Murder" was shelved while the
dramatica? No! It is a super-film because she loved me, but because company went to eat.
super. I tell you! You've got I was Hugo Sturm, director I
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THE END.
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