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Now we raced to save his life, to preserve it for a more fitting end in the electric chair. The first drug store we found was unable to supply us. At a second we had better luck. All in all, we were back at the Manton Pictures plant in a relatively few minutes, a remarkable bit of driving on the part of the district attorney. Shirley was still in the set.
Surely he should have been able to substantiate the rumors of her association with Lloyd Manton. Lawrence Millard, author and playwright and finally scenario writer, had been as much responsible for the success of his wife as Manton, and in a much less spectacular way.
At once the whole train of recent events flashed through his brain: the wild escapade on Broadway, the scene with his father, his parting with Ethel Manton, the wreck, and his fight in the dark each in its proper sequence. He was very wide awake now and watched the brown-bearded man eagerly as he picked up a chart from the table and scrutinized it minutely.
Manton saw that the strange dog was a valuable one, and when it showed an inclination to follow them, tried to persuade it to return to its home, which he supposed was somewhere in the town. As the dog disappeared, he thought he had succeeded, and was afterwards surprised to find it on the boat, in company with Nanita and her little ones.
Oh, I met her first of all at Barlow's, just after we got back from the seaside. Rather an interesting girl. She's a daughter of Manton Rupert, the advertising agent. I want to get invited to their house; useful people, you know. 'But is an advertising agent a gentleman? Jasper laughed. 'Do you think of him as a bill-poster?
And how wretched to be tied to such a life as I lead, following the same weary round of miserable drudgery every day!" But it was Rodney's own fancy that painted this enjoyment of a sailor-boy's life. Will Manton did not find it so pleasant in reality. There was more menial drudgery to the poor cabin-boy on ship-board, than he had ever known in the carpenter's shop.
"Dupes?" Manton looked up in scorn. "Did you ever see a print from a dupe negative? It's terrible. Looks like some one left it out in the wet overnight." "How about the 'Black Terror'?" I inquired. "All of that's in the safe in the printing room; that and the two current five reelers of the other companies.
He rose to Forester, but ere that worthy had even cocked his gun for he had now adopted Archer's plan, and carried his piece always at half cock, till needed flew to the right across the Commodore; so Frank released his hammer and brought down his Manton, while A deliberately covered, and handsomely cut down the bird at five-and-twenty yards.
It was a large crumple in Deb's rose-leaf, Manton's limpet-like attachment to Claud, who seemed unable to do anything without his servant's help, and the latter's cool relegation of herself to the second place in the MENAGE. It was all very well for HER to give her husband the premier place she did it gladly but for Manton to take possession of Redford as a mere appendage of his lord's was quite another matter.
He ventured out on deck, and the salt breeze brought some color into his pale cheeks. "You sort of look as if you had been drawn through a knothole," remarked Tom Manton, one of the sailors. "Yes, old Father Neptune has been playing tricks on him, I reckon," added Sam Bender, the second mate.
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