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Merton of the Movies

CHAPTER II
11/47

Hear about Gus Giddings?
They got him over in the coop for breaking in on a social out at the Oak Grove schoolhouse last night.

Say, he had a peach on when he left here, I'll tell the world! But he didn't get far.

Them Grove lads certainly made a believer out of him.

You ought to see that left eye of his!" Merton listened loftily to this village talk, gossip of a rural sport who got a peach on and started something--And the poker game in the back room of the City Drug Store! What diversions were these for one who had a future?
Let these clods live out their dull lives in their own way.
But not Merton Gill, who held aloof from their low sports, studied faithfully the lessons in his film-acting course, and patiently bided his time.
He presently sauntered to the post office, where the mail was being distributed.

Here he found the sight-seers who had returned from the treat of No.


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