Frank Lanning

Fred Church

Eileen Sedgwick

Grant Carpenter

Karl R. Coolidge

Jack Cunningham

Jim Hoyle, an independent tobacco grower, is reading to his wife an account of the fire of the company&apos;s warehouses, where a year&apos;s supply of tobacco was stored, when Bob Pritchard, his friend the sheriff, with his son Ted, rides ...

Henry MacRae

The Last of the Night Riders

Jim Hoyle, an independent tobacco grower, is reading to his wife an account of the fire of the company's warehouses, where a year's supply of tobacco was stored, when Bob Pritchard, his friend the sheriff, with his son Ted, rides into view. The two men continue the discussion of the raids of the Night Riders upon the company's property, while the two young people, Jim's daughter Sue and Bob's son Ted, wander away into the garden, where Ted asks the all-important question. They return to find their fathers quarreling bitterly, and to hear Jim say that the riders are right and that he is going to join them. Bob is furious, calls his son, tells him to have nothing more to do with the Hoyles, and rides away. As summer approaches, the raiders increase their activities. Bob overhears two of them whispering; one says, "Felton Woods this afternoon at four." Bob determines to investigate. Meantime, Ted rides near the Hoyle home and whistles for Sue, who quickly goes to him, her father being away. While the two young people are talking. Orrin Black, a neighboring grower, sees them and informs Jim. Jim is furious and raves at Sue, while Black stands trying to get her attention, but she ignores him. Bob creeps near enough to the group of men, among whom are Jim and Black, to hear them say: "Tomorrow night at the entrance to Box Canyon." Bob gathers together his deputies, instructing them not to fire until the raiders have passed into the canyon, where the deputies can hold them there until morning. That night, when the raiders are cornered In "The Box," Ted and Sue are with Mrs. Hoyle, who is taken ill. Ted rushes for a doctor, who sends a young fellow to find Jim at once. Ted comes upon Bob, who is covered by Jim. Jim hears Ted asking for him and the reason for so doing. Bob exchanges hats and coats with Jim and has him wear his badge, while Bob puts on the black mask. Ted is taken prisoner by some of the raiders. Black is told to lock him in a shack, and later, when the raiders decide to blow up the warehouse and make a dash for freedom, Black again offers to place the bomb, but instead of putting it near the warehouse, he puts it by the shack, and the explosion immediately occurs. Bob joins the deputies, and they rush to the shack, where they find a body and think it is Ted's. Bob dashes to Jim's home with the news. Jim is amazed. He enters the bedroom and sees Sue and Ted seated by Mrs. Hoyle's bedside. Bob is bewildered. Ted tells him that the dead man must be Black, who tried to get rid of him because of Sue, but in the fight Ted overpowered him and escaped.

Moving Picture World, September 22, 1917

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