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M'liss 1 Perched like an eagle's nest in the High Sierras, far from the pulse of com- merce, is the mining town of Red Gulch.

2   MARY PICKFORD as      M'LISS (Which, in the lingo of Red Gulch, means -   "Limb of Satan").

3 "Bummer" Smith, the father of M'liss, lost his fortune in the gold mines. Now his only investment which pays a dividend is - Hilde- garde, the hen!

Theodore Roberts.

4 Judge Joshua McSnaggley, an exponent of the "statoots". A gentleman, a scholar - and a prohibi- tionist! Tully Marshall.

5 Sandy Waddle, the sheriff - and Mexican Joe, his deputy. William Brown. Monte Blue.

6 "- I got him!"

7 Yuba Bill, the driver of the Slum Gullion Stage. Charles Ogle.

8 Charles Gray, the new schoolmaster, on his way to Red Gulch. Thomas Meighan.

9 A tense, dramatic moment to a notorious outlaw ..... the stage coach ap- proaches!

10 "What you brung me .... Yuba Bill?"

11 "Hands up, stranger - or I'll pump you full of rocks!"

12 "Drive on - like hell bent fer election!"

13 There's one advantage to the D. T.'s ..... You carry your own Zoo!"

14 "Howdy! Will yer lady friend have a drink?"

15 "Think you'll have a purty nice cabin here - after you weeds out the rattle-snakes. Last feller lived here - died of 'em."

16 "If I asks you if the jack rabbit that just passed us - wore a green hat with yellow tassels - you wouldn't sass the old man, would you, Melissie?"

17 "This licker ain't got no more kick 'n a dead mule!"

18 In San Francisco, 'Bummer' Smith's brother, Jonathan, a wealthy pioneer, turns his face toward the Sunset Trail.

19 Clara Peterson, for three years Jonathan Smith's nurse. Winnifred Greenwood.

20 Her brother, Jim Peterson, hopes to find in his employer's will, a reward for their services. Val Paul.

21 "The old skinflint! Only a thousand for us - and leaving all that money to a brother he hasn't seen for fifteen years."

22 [title includes animated musical notes and chicken] Rock-a-bye ba-by -

23 "M'liss! Shut up that squawkin' - you're dis- turbin' Hildegarde."

24 "Larnin'" now becomes a pleasant pastime to the "gals" of Red Gulch.

25 "I been goin' to this here school for over ten years - an' no teacher ever licked ME!"

26 "Why don't you come to my school, M'liss?"

27 "I seen what you done to Bub - that's enough!"

28 Crocodile tears - for the passing of Jonathan Smith.

29 "Beddie, beddie, 'Bummer' dear .... an' durned quick!"

30 "I d-don't w-wanta go to b-bed."

31 Parson Bean (from Boston) - converts a sinner. John Burton.

32 "I hear you're the 'bad man' around here, Mexican Joe - and I'm not looking for trouble."

33 "What's the matter, School- marm - fidgety?"

34 "If you boys don't stop this arguin' - I'm goin' to git mad in a minute!"

35 "Mex - now go home and tell your mama that your schoolmarm spanked you!"

36 "I hear Hildegarde knocking at the door."

37 "You'll be layin' bad eggs ..... galavantin' around 'til this hour of night!"

38 According to the local his- torians - nothing hap- pened of interest for the next few days, until .......

39 "Boy's - there's trouble brewin'! Smith's wild-cat ain't become a kitten - fer nothin'!"

40 "What you got there, Melissie?"

41 "None of your -*-! - ??? - !!! business!!!"

42 "Accordin' to the 'statoots' - Yuba - we've a right to arrest M'liss."

43 "An I'll lick the first feller who attempts it! That's the particular kind of a darned fool I am!"

44 A Solemncholy Moment.

45 "'Twarn't her face that broke this after- noon, Yuba."

46 "'Twere my heart!"

47 "- it's the only chance I ever had to be a grand- father."

48 How seriously M'liss was affected by this tragedy we are about to prove ---

49 "I come to be teached."

50 "If you come here you must be a good girl. They tell me you swear worse than your poor, drunken father -"

51 "It's a damn lie! I don't swear! An' he ain't a drunk- ard - he's haunted!"

52 "Where in blazes did Missy Pug Nose git them feathers on her hat?"

53 And now - there hap- pens - a miracle!

54 And the "villun" still pursued her!

55 "M'liss, these be strange doin's ... I'm skeered you've been a-drinkin'!"

56 "I don't keer - fashions is fashions! Anyways she's moltin'!"

57 The end of a perfect tale.

58 "Hello, Dominguez! When did you leave 'Frisco' for this part of the country?"

59 "I'm known as Mexican Joe - here! And what's more - you never knew me in 'Frisco' - sabe?"

60 "There's 'Bummer' Smith - the man you're lookin' for."

61 "Teacher! What do you do with these little fellers?"

62 Once a year, the School Board meets to see how the children are worrying through their "ejjication".

63 "M'liss - who was the first man?"

64 "Washington - Jedge. First in war, first in -"

65 "Wrong!... 'Twere Adam."

66 "Oh, of course - if you're speakin' of foreigners!"

67 "Children, what air grammar?"

68 "I'm feared, Jedge - it's somethin' that you knows nothin' about."

69 "You were impudent, M'liss. And you cannot remain for the rest of the exercises."

70 "- so, children, when Joshua commanded the sun to stand still - it obeyed him!"

71 "It's a damn lie! And I don't believe it!"

72 While the "Infernal Femin- ine" is on her way to the Schoolmaster's cabin with a Peace offering --

73 "M'liss is backward in her lessons, but I'm com- ing up here in the even- ings to help her."

74 "'Bummer' - who was with you last?"

75 "- the schoolmaster."

76 "Poor old 'Bummer' has been stabbed in the back."

77 "Which is correct - brung or brang?"

78 "Why - bring."

79 "All right - I bringed you a present!"

80 "- also to ask if you was goin' to marry that Missy Pug Nose?"

81 "Very well, then - I'll marry you myself!"

82 "Now that you have made up our minds - when is the wedding?"

83 "When I'm growed up - an' that's -"

84 "- pretty soon!"

85 "You must listen to me, M'liss."

86 "- I've got some awful bad news."

87 "What's the matter, Yuba ... did your wife come back?"

88 "They've got the feller that killed your old man. Come on an' see him."

89 Three weeks later. A murder trial - "far and squar" - according to the "statoots".

90 Being a man of city "re- finements" - Peterson is made foreman of the Jury.

91 "'Bummer's' last words were .... 'the schoolmaster'!"

92 "Parson! You're a darned fool!"

93 "M'liss - you're no lady!"

94 "All I wants to know is - what was M'lissa doin' in the schoolmaster's cabin?"

95 "Suppose you blowed my head off! Then how was I to git through with this here trial?"

96 "Time to wash up fer dinner, folks. Court adjourns."

97 "All the principal wit- nesses kin jine me at the bar."

98 The plot curdles - with the arrival of another stranger.

99 "Can you tell me where Mr. John Benson Smith lives?"

100 "Maybe she means 'Bummer' Smith."

101 "I have come from San Francisco to find him. I - am his wife."

102 "You mean, Ma'am, that you are his widder. Mr. John 'Bummer' Smith has - er - er - lately kicked the bucket."

103 "Tell the folks, ma'am, all that you've told me."

104 "... my husband and I quarreled - he left, taking our baby with him. And I have just been able to trace him."

105 "... you can picture the grief of a poor de- serted wife - and mother."

106 "She's a liar!"

107 "My mother died before I was born!"

108 "Accordin' to the 'statoots' - t'aint possible!"

109 "He's innocent, Jedge - ain't you got no sense?"

110 "No! Accordin' to the 'statoots', I don't have to have none!"

111 "Don't you know your own mother, dear?"

112 "No thanks! An' I don't want to be interdooced!"

113 "This Court needs a recess."

114 The gentle jury ponders.

115 "- murdered in cold blood, a poor defense- less old man!"

116 "Somethin's crooked, M'liss, or Peterson wouldn't be so agin' the school- master!"

117 When life hangs by a thread.

118 "- Guilty!"

119 "It's agin' the 'statoots' .... but I'm only goin' to sentence Gray to sixty years in the Slum Gullion jail."

120 "This old marriage license found among 'Bummer' Smith's papers, and the death certificate signed by Judge McSnaggley, will help to establish your claim!"

121 "We cannot be seen leaving together. I will follow in a few days."

122 The miners, incited by Mexican Joe, resent Judge McSnaggley's MILD decision!

123 "- a man ain't tryin' to fasten a crime on another - unless it's to hide his own dirty tracks!"

124 "- AN' I'M GOIN' TO RUN THAT MURDERER DOWN! .... That's the particular kind of a darned fool I am!"

125 "They're goin' to lynch him, Sheriff. You ain't goin' to let an innocent man die in a rat trap?"

126 "Law is law! I daren't let him escape."

127 "Peterson!"

128 "You skunk! You've squealed ...."

129 "You can't hang Bummer Smith's death on me. You paid me to do it!"

130 "I left the horse on the grade. I couldn't go away without saying goodbye."

131 "Say, Sheriff! How about a little ...... necktie party?"

132 "No Siree. I represent the law. No lynchin'!"

133 "They got 'em - the murderers confessed they done it to git a fortune that belongs to Melissie."

134 "Yuba Bill, you're just one of them - angels!"

135 "Yep, that's the partic- ular kind of a darned fool - I am!"

136 "This ought to be a lesson to you two fellers."

The End

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