Gladys Varden

Walter Stephens

Catherine Young

Gladys, the waitress in the restaurant, offers Walter a pail of water. He has had a bad time of it when he is mistaken for a cow and almost branded. He is inclined to be comforted, however, by Gladys, until the cook with floury ge...

Noel M. Smith

From Cactus to Kale

Gladys, the waitress in the restaurant, offers Walter a pail of water. He has had a bad time of it when he is mistaken for a cow and almost branded. He is inclined to be comforted, however, by Gladys, until the cook with floury gestures announces the house's slogan: "Shot at sunrise if you flirt with the waitress." Walter is kicked out and lands on a cactus bush. He returns with a handful and throws it at the cook. The fight is on and the place is almost demolished. In a sitting-room the no-longer-young Miss Young reclines on a sofa, and Harry gives the paper the once-over. They both jump to their feet when he reads a certain paragraph and make a rush for the depot. But the train has already steamed out, carrying a mustached gentleman who carries some very precious papers. Harry and Miss Young pursue the train in an auto and board it at the tank station. Miss Young engages the mustached gentleman in conversation. She winks to Harry. He follows to the rear end platform where he administers to Miss Young's companion a dose of chloroform and hurls him from the train. The couple arrive in the town and Gladys and Walter make for the restaurant. They take Walter and tell him piles of gold await him in the city. Walter, once arrived in the Metropolis, indulges in diversions, which almost put the precious trio in very bad. However, Walter and Miss Young land the young gentleman in a house, where there are a number of strange-looking inmates. One gives Walter the combination of a safe, after which he falls dead. When the couple see Walter has the safe's combination they attempt to wrest it from him, after having installed him as master in a large house, where he is giving a large dinner party. He is eating principally with his knife and shooting from the table live crabs and lobsters. Meanwhile the mustached gentleman has picked himself up from the embankment, brushed off the dust from his coat and made his way into town and into Gladys' good graces. He tells her Harry and Miss Young have kidnapped him and the couple pursue the trio and arrive just as the conspirators are wresting the fortune from the safe. They rush through the house, hands, arms, pockets filled with bank notes, Gladys, Walter and the mustached gentleman hot in pursuit. The race gathers momentum and grows as it continues through the streets, demolishes whole buildings and ends in the middle of the ocean, where the lovers are reunited.

Moving Picture World, September 15, 1917

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