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Jim and Nell are sweethearts. They are sitting by the roadside one day when Harold, a wicked city chap, happens to ride by in his automobile. He rides down the road a way and then orders his chauffeur to drive back. As they drive ...

His Awful Vengeance

Jim and Nell are sweethearts. They are sitting by the roadside one day when Harold, a wicked city chap, happens to ride by in his automobile. He rides down the road a way and then orders his chauffeur to drive back. As they drive past Nell and Jim the auto slows down, Harold gets out on the running board and grabs Nell into the machine, which drives off at terrific speed. Harold takes Nell to his mansion in New York, but she spurns him. He locks her up in a room and she climbs out of the window and escapes. Harold discovers the escape. All this time Jim is still running on the road to New York. Harold hurries to the office of the Villain's Union. Inside there is a clerk at a desk and a long bench on which are seated eight or ten villains, all dressed alike. On the wall is a sign: "Villains to hire by the hour, day, week or month." Also another sign reading: "Rates: Pursuing, $1 an hour." Harold hires the whole bunch of villains to pursue Nell and they all start out. Nell is trying to escape pursuit. At a corner she bumps into a villain. She turns and runs down the other way and bumps into another villain. Every way she turns she runs into a villain. She starts in to walk hurriedly. After her walk the whole crew of villains. She walks into a vacant house, locks the door after herself and sinks in relief on the floor. The villains break into the vacant house and go to the room over the one in which Nell is hiding. They get a saw and saw a big hole in the floor. The villains drop through into Nell's room. Nell jumps out the window; the villains follow. The villains catch her and take her to the old bridge. Harold is waiting for them. He asks Nell if she is ready to be his, but she again spurns him. Harold tells the villains to do their worst. The villains grab Nell, tie her hands and feet and place her on the bridge railing ready to push her in. Harold gives her one more chance. She spurns him again. Harold orders the villains to do their dirtiest. They are just ready to push her into the river when the town clock strikes twelve and all the noon whistles blow. Like all good union workmen the villains stop work immediately, take their lunch pails out of their pockets, sit down on the bridge and start to eat. Harold remonstrates with them, but they show him their union badges. "I will push her in the river myself," says Harold, and just then Jim rushes up, gives him a punch on the jaw and rescues Nell.

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