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CHICAGO. ILL.,
SATURDAY, JANUARY 8,
1916.
[Copyright 1916 by W. D. Enyre Co.)
CHAPTER I.
VEN under the ghast-
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ingvpicture
she was beautiful.
Seated on a richly
upholstered sofa,
dressed in a gorge-
ous evening gown,
she did not need the
jewels on her hands
and at her throat to bring the focus of
all eyes upon her.
And Helen Hayden's smile was calcu-
lated to disarm the most jealous of pro<
tessional rivals. That smile was now
shining for the benefit of the perplexed
L The Press;
' Or,
AgTente& Gem
By Lloyd Thacher
director, who was trying to remain calm
while he attempted to make several “ex-
tra" men and women understand just
what they should do in the scene of
which a picture was about to be taken.
"You see that wonderful gem at Miss
Hayden's throat," the director was say-
ing to them. “Well, that gem is sup-
posed to be worth a fortune."
The superintendent oi’ the plant,
standing back oi the camera with a
friend. spoke in a whisper. "And it is
worth a fortune, too," he said.
“And," continued the director, “you
are all supposed to be interested in it."
It was easy enough for the “supers"
to act this part of the picture. for they.
as well as all the rest ot the world, had
read and heard oi! the fabulous sum
which the noted actress had paid for the
gleaming thing now glistening against
the snowy white of her throat.
“And you. Grant,” the director went
on, “are a broken-down society man
who has come to the end of his rope.
You intend to get that jewel and sell
it. Not one of the rest of you people
has any suspicions that Grant is any-
thing hut all right. But you've got to
show your interest in the Jewel, and yet
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see Grant so that you'll remember that
he was there at this moment of the
story. Now, see it you all can't forget
everything except your interest in the
thing which you're seeing for the first
me,”
The “set" was a handsomely-furnish
ed room in a mansion where a ball was
supposedly being given by Miss Hay-
den's mother‘. .The fact that Just be-
yond the camera's vision the exterior of
a prison cell was visible, ready to re
ceive the villain in another picture that
was to be taken, was not supposed to
affect the participants in this scene.
And it did not. They" were thinking,
rather, most of them, whether they
would get ihru with the ball scenes
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