After which he carries the senseless wretch down the street, and gaily flicks him, as it were, through a window at the villain's feet.

As a tasty little finish, _Reggie_ and his rival lock themselves in an empty room, and engage in a contest governed by packing-house rules.
Three days after the combat, by the way, the company heads were pleased to announce that both men were out of danger unless blood-poisoning set in.
[Illustration: _Here's Hoping!_ (_White Studio_)] "The Mystery of the Leaping Fish" was what is known as a "water picture," and "Doug," as a comedy detective, was compelled to make a human submarine of himself, not to mention several duels in the dark with Japanese thugs and opium smugglers.
"Another day of it," he grinned, "and I'd have grown fins." "Manhattan Madness" was really nothing more than St.Vitus's dance set to ragtime.

Our hero climbed up eaves-pipes, plunged through trap-doors down into dungeons, jumped from the roof of a house into a tree, kicked his way in and out of secret closets, and engaged in hair-raising combats with desperate villains every few minutes.
It is not only the case that "Doug" Fairbanks made good with the movie fans.

What is more to the point, he made good with the "bunch" itself.
In nine cases out of ten, the "legitimate" star, going over into pictures, evades and avoids the "rough stuff." To some humble, hardy "double" is assigned the actual work of falling off the cliff, riding at full speed across granite hedges, taking a good hard punch in the nose, or plunging from the top of the burning building.
Many an honest cowpuncher, taking his girl to the show with him to let her see what a daredevil he is, has died the death upon discovering that he was merely "doubling" for some cow-eyed hero who lacked the nerve to do the stunt himself.
"Doug" Fairbanks is one of the few movie heroes who have never had a "double." He asks no man to do that which he is afraid to do himself.

No fall is too hard for him, no fight too furious, no ride too dangerous.
There is not a single one of his pictures in which he hasn't taken a chance of breaking his neck or his bones; but, as one bronco-buster observed, "He jes' licks his lips an' asks for more." To be sure, few actors have brought such super-physical equipment to the strenuous work of the movies.