Silver Screenings, in reply to his question, had answered, "Perhaps." Camera, in its answers to correspondents, had said, "Not now." Then he had written to Photo Land: "Is Beulah Baxter unmarried ?" The answer had come, "Twice." He had been able to make little of these replies, enigmatic, ambiguous, at best.

But he felt that some day he would at least be chosen to act with this slim little girl with the sad eyes and wistful mouth.

He, it might be, would rescue her from the branches of the great eucalyptus tree growing hard by the Fifth Avenue mansion of the scoundrelly guardian.

This, if he remembered well her message about hard work.
He recalled now the wondrous occasion on which he had travelled the nearly hundred miles to Peoria to see his idol in the flesh.

Her personal appearance had been advertised.