After all, you had to give the public what it wanted.

She began to devise comedy elements for her next drama.
But The Hazards of Hortense came mercifully to soothe their annoyance.
The slim little girl with a wistful smile underwent a rich variety of hazards, each threatening a terrible death.

Through them all she came unscathed, leaving behind her a trail of infuriated scoundrels whom she had thwarted.

She escaped from an underworld den in a Chicago slum just in the nick of time, cleverly concealing herself in the branches of the great eucalyptus tree that grew hard by, while her maddened pursuers scattered in their search for the prize.

Again she was captured, this time to be conveyed by aeroplane, a helpless prisoner and subject to the most fiendish insults by Black Steve, to the frozen North.