SCENE 9

Location.—­Remsen library.  Close foreground of French windows.

Action.—­The intruder, now in the close foreground, pauses as he is about to shut the window and blinks deliberately into the rays of light, then laughs and closes the French windows.

SCENE 10

Location.—­Hallway, Remsen home.  Close foreground of portieres to library.

Action.—­The butler and maid look around hopelessly.  A young man, the exact counterpart of the man who in the previous scene looked into the spotlight at the French windows, comes up to the butler and demands to know what has happened.  The butler explains hurriedly that he heard his mistress cry out for help.  The young man steps to the portieres and pauses.

SCENE 11

Location.—­Remsen library.  Full shot.

Action.—­The girl, using the spotlight, flashes it about the room and down on the floor, seeing for the first time the body of the American millionaire.

SCENE 12

Location.—­Exterior Remsen house.  Night tint.

Action.—­The murderer scrambles down a column from the upper porch and leaps to the ground, darting across the lawn out of the picture.

SCENE 13

Location.—­Remsen library.  Full shot.

Action.—­The spotlight on the floor reveals the girl sobbing over the body of the millionaire and trying to revive him.  She screams and cries out.  The portieres are parted and from the lighted hallway we see the young man, the butler, and the maid, who enter.  The young man switches on the lights and the room is revealed.  The three cry out in horror.  The young man, glancing about, leaps toward the partly opened French windows, drawing a revolver.  As the girl sees him she screams again and denotes terror.

Finishing the thirteenth scene, Kennedy closed the covers and handed the script to me.  Then he confronted Manton once more.

“What became of the locket about the girl’s neck?  In the manuscript Miss Lamar is supposed to have a peculiar pendant at her throat.  There was none.”

“Oh yes!” The promoter remained a moment in thought.  “The doctor took it off and gave it to Bernie, the prop. boy, who’s helping the electrician.”

“Is he outside?”

“Yes.”

“Now try to remember, Mr. Manton.”  Kennedy leaned over very seriously.  “Just who approached closely to Miss Lamar in the making of that thirteenth scene?  Who was near enough to have inflicted a wound, or to have subjected her, suppose we say, to the fumes of some subtle poison?”

“You think that—­” Manton started to question Kennedy, but was given no encouragement.  “Gordon, the leading man, passed through the scene,” he replied, after a pause, “but did not go very near her.  Werner was playing the dead millionaire at her feet.”