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Jean of the Lazy A

CHAPTER XV
9/18

You better let him take the heavies, and put Gil in for leads, Burns." Robert Grant Burns was so cast down by the prospect that he made no attempt to reply, beyond grunting something about preferring to drive a team of balky mules to making Jean do something she did not want to do.
But, such is the mind trained to a profession, insensibly he drifted away into the world of his imagination, and began to draw therefrom the first tenuous threads of a plot wherein Jean's peculiar accomplishments were to be featured.

Robert Grant Burns had long ago learned to adjust himself to circumstances which in themselves were not to his liking.
He adjusted himself now to the idea of making Jean the Western star his employers seemed to think was inevitable.
That night before he went to bed he wrote a play which had in it fifty-two scenes.

Thirty-five of them were what is known technically as exteriors.

In most of them Jean was to ride on horseback through wild places.

The rest were dramatic close-ups.


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