The Moving Picture Girls at Sea: or, A Pictured Shipwreck That Became RealHope, Laura Lee
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The Moving Picture Girls at Sea: or, A Pictured Shipwreck That Became Real
Hope, Laura Lee
Girls -- Juvenile fiction; Motion pictures -- Production and direction -- Juvenile fiction
"There isn't much to tell," the steward said. "I was a shipmate with
Jack on the _Halcyon_ or the _Mary Ellen_, in the old days. He's
probably told you of the mutiny. I was hurt in it, and lay unconscious
when they arrested him for it. I didn't recover until he had been put in
jail, and when I tried to give my evidence, I could get no one to listen
to me. Then I heard Jack had escaped and I rested easy. I never knew the
charge was hanging over him all this while.
"I've been all over the world since, sailing in different vessels, and
in every port I'd inquire of Jack from those who knew him. But I never
found him until now. Clear him--of course I can clear him of the unjust
charge!"
"Thank Heaven for that!" said Jack Jepson.
"Everything is cleared up!" cried Alice gaily. "Even the sky--see how
blue it is!"
In due time Jack's innocence was proved before the English courts, and
the charge against him wiped out. He was then free to come and go as he
pleased. But the mystery of the disappearance of Captain Watson, of the
_Halcyon_, or old _Mary Ellen_, and his companion, Mike Tullane, was
never solved.
The _Mary Ellen_, all that was left of the reconstructed _Halcyon_, was,
of course, a total wreck. Brisco's plan failed. Nothing was done to him,
as it would have been difficult to prove a case against him.
Arrangements were made for taking the needed land scenes of the sea
drama, and when this was done, the whole company returned to New York.
"Well, Alice," remarked Ruth one day, as they were on their way up the
coast in a steamer, "did you have enough of sea-life this trip?"
"I certainly did," was the answer. "No more shipwrecks for me!"
"Same here!" put in Russ. "It's taking too many chances!"
"Oh, you'd do it over again--or something like it--and so would you
girls, if you knew a good film would come of it," predicted Paul Ardite,
with a laugh.
And here we will say good-bye to the Moving Picture Girls.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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