Don't look back any more." Merton was chiefly troubled at this moment by the thought that someone would have to double for him in the actual casting of the rope that would settle upon the detective's shoulders.

Well, he must practise roping.

Perhaps, by the next picture, he could do this stuff himself.

It was exciting work, though sometimes tedious.

It had required almost an entire morning to enact this one simple scene, with the numerous close-ups that Baird demanded.
The afternoon was taken up largely in becoming accustomed to a pair of old Spanish spurs that Baird now provided him with.