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Merton of the Movies

CHAPTER XIV
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I tell you what you do, stand up and try this: just toe in a little when you walk--that'll bring the points apart.

There--that's it; that's fine." The cameras were again recording so that Baird could later make his study of the difficulties to be mastered by the wearer of genuine hidalgos.

By toeing in Merton now succeeded in walking without disaster, though he could not feel that he was taking the free stride of men out there in the open spaces.
"Now try running." directed Baird, and he tried running; but again the spurs caught and he was thrown full in the eyes of the grinding camera.
He had forgotten to toe in.

But he would not give up.

His face was set in Buck Benson grimness.


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