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I am not exactly a reporter. I am what they call a special writer sometimes write for magazines like Scribbler's, other times for newspapers. I do feature-stuff." "Whatever that is." "Human-interest stories; anything unusual; strange happenings in every-day life, you know." "Murders, and and robberies." "Occasionally, if they are out of the ordinary." She took a swift breath, and made the plunge.
If Robert Grant Burns persisted in his mania for "feature-stuff" and "punches" in his pictures, Jean believed that she would have a fair start toward buying back the Lazy A long before her book was published and had brought her the thousands and thousands of dollars she was sure it would bring. Very soon she could go boldly to a lawyer and ask him to do something about her father's case.
"Talk about feature-stuff; that girl will jump our releases up ten per cent., Pete, with the punches I can put into Gay's parts now. How many feet was that scene, twenty-five?" "Fifteen," corrected Pete. "And every foot with a punch in it. Too bad she's got to double for Gay. She's got the face for close-up work, believe me!" To this tentative remark Robert Grant Burns made no reply whatever.
"Lord, what feature-stuff that would make!" he said under his breath. "I'll write a scenario around that rescue scene." Whereupon he caught himself. It is not well for a director to permit his enthusiasm to carry him into injudicious speech. He chuckled to hide his eagerness. "Well, you can show me that location," he said, "and we'll get to work.
By feature-stuff, I mean anything I want you to do to put a punch in the story; anything from riding bucking horses and shooting say can you shoot?" "Yes, I think so." "Well, I'll have use for that, too, later on. The more stunts you can pull off, the bigger hits these pictures are going to make. You see that, of course. And what I've offered you is a pretty good rate; but I expect to get results.
Twenty-five dollars for feature-stuff, say, and five dollars for straight riding. Get me?" "I do, yes." Jean's drawl gave no hint of her inner elation at the prospect of earning so much money so easily. What, she wondered, would Lite say to that? "Well, that part's all right then.
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