The Moving Picture Girls in War Plays: Or, The Sham Battles at Oak FarmHope, Laura Lee
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The Moving Picture Girls in War Plays: Or, The Sham Battles at Oak Farm
Hope, Laura Lee
Girls -- Juvenile fiction; Motion pictures -- Production and direction -- Juvenile fiction
It was a scene of rejoicing at Oak Farm, and the moving picture girls
came in for a big share of praise. For had it not been for the fact that
Alice had seen the paper containing the account of the missing girl and
saved it, the identity of Mildred might not have been disclosed for some
time.
Finally, she was told what had happened; that for four years she had
been another person--Estelle Brown--a name she had taken after the
awakening following the railroad accident because of some kink in the
brain that retained the memory of the doll.
"Then Lieutenant Varley was right, he must have seen you in Portland,"
said Alice, when explanations were being made.
"He must have," admitted Mildred. "But I don't understand how it
happened."
Later on it was all made clear.
Mildred Passamore, the daughter of a wealthy family, living temporarily
at the Palace Hotel, in San Francisco, had started on a trip to visit
relatives in Seattle. She was well supplied with money.
The train Mildred was on was wrecked near Portland, Oregon, and the girl
received a blow on her head that caused her to lose her sense of
identity completely. She did not seem to be hurt, and she was not in
need of medical aid. Without assistance, she got on the relief train
that took the injured in to Portland, and there it was that Lieutenant
Varley saw her in the station.
Through some vagary of her brain, Mildred imagined she wanted to go to
New York, and, as she had plenty of money, she bought a ticket for that
city, the one to Seattle having been lost. Lieutenant Varley had helped
her and, though he suspected something was wrong with the young lady the
impression with him was not very strong until it was too late to be of
assistance to her.
So, her identity completely lost, Mildred started on her trip across the
continent. What happened on that journey she never could recollect
clearly. That she got on the Great Lakes and then went to Boston was
established. The reason for that was that, as a child, she had lived
there. This accounted for the toilet set her mother had given her, and
for the recollection of the monument and the historic places.
Why she was attracted to moving pictures could only be guessed at, but
she "broke in," and "made good." Her ability to ride was easily
explained. Her father owned a big stock farm, and Mildred had ridden
since a child. But all this, as well as other remembrances of her
younger days, was lost after the injury to her head in the railroad
accident. She retained but one strongly marked memory--the name of her
doll, the name which she took for her own.
So, as a new personage, she came to Oak Farm, unable to think back more
than four years, and totally without suspicion that she was the missing
Mildred Passamore. That she was not recognized as the missing girl was
not strange, since the search in the East had not been prosecuted as
vigorously as it had been in the West.
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