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By hard work, later, I was able to scrape the five hundred dollars together, and I paid him back. "Unfortunately Dan Merley was a bit under the influence of drink when I gave him the cash, and he could not find my promissory note to return to me. "He promised to send it around to me the next day, and, very foolishly, as I see it now, I let him keep the money, not even getting a receipt for it.
"Well, it is a hard thing to say against a man, when I have no proof," replied Mr. DeVere, "but I believe, in his heart, Dan Merley knows I paid him. I think he is just trying to make me pay him over again to cheat me." "Oh, how can he be so cruel?" cried Alice. "He is a hard man to deal with," went on her father. "A very hard man. This has been bothering me all day.
It seems that Merley went to the woods to hunt as a sort of relief from having to pose all the while in New York as an injured man. He felt at home up in that locality, having been there many times before. "Well," said Mr. Pertell to Mr. DeVere and the girls one day, when he had called to see them, "I suppose you are ready for more camera work by this time?" "What now?" asked Ruth.
Pertell would have insisted on having a moving picture of it, and I would have been too prostrated with grief to be able to work the camera." "Well, we're all right now," declared Alice. "And such an appetite as I have!" "Did you tell your father about Dan Merley?" asked Russ. "Oh, no!" exclaimed Ruth. "Listen Daddy, whom do you think we saw?" "Not Dan Merley up here?" cried the actor.
But Alice, did you see how Merley seems to have recovered from his accident? He walks as well as the others." "Yes, so he does. I'm glad they didn't see us. But I have a plan. There may be other persons in the cabin. When the three men are out of sight, and they will be in the woods in a little while, we can go and ask help of whoever is left in the cabin."
Well, I'm off," and, kissing the girls good-bye, Mr. DeVere went out. Ruth and Alice, in his absence, discussed the new source of trouble that had come to them. They had been so happy all summer, that the blow fell doubly heavy. "Isn't it just horrid!" exclaimed Ruth. "Too mean for anything!" agreed Alice. "I wish I had that Dan Merley here. I I'd " But Alice did not finish.
Merley claims he will never be able to walk again, because his back is permanently hurt. And yet you saw him walking?" he appealed to the two girls. "We certainly saw him," declared Ruth. "Then that is a bogus damage suit. He isn't hurt at all. The court should know of this, and so should the street car company. I shall write to them!" "Wait!" cried Russ. "I have a better idea."
That is, unless you have the five hundred dollars here, and want to pay me," he added, with a sickly grin. "You have been paid once," Ruth insisted. "I have not I never was paid!" Dan Merley cried. "I want my money and I'm going to have it! Do you hear? I'm going to have it, and have it soon! You tell your father that from me!" and he banged his fist on the table.
The unexposed reels were sent in to New York, together with the one made of Dan Merley, showing a supposedly injured man walking vigorously about. "And now good-bye to Elk Lodge," sighed Alice, when they were packing up to go back to New York. "I'm sorry to leave it." "So am I!" added Ruth. "We have had some lovely times here." "And strenuous ones, too," spoke Alice.
"What happened?" asked Ruth, when he had knocked on the door of their hall and had been admitted. "Not much," he replied. "They took Merley home, instead of to a hospital. He wouldn't go to an institution, he said." "Did those other two men go with him?" asked Alice. "Who, Fripp and Jagle? No, they wouldn't be allowed to ride on the ambulance. But they got a taxicab and went off in that.
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