AMUSEMENTS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 29, 3 February 1913, Page 5

AMUSEMENTS.

BERNARD’S PICTURES. “On the Moonlight Trail” is one of the dramas to be screened at His Majesty’s theatre to-night. The scenario reads: “Jim Murray, station agent at Martel Junction, receives a*i express package from an Omaha bank containing 20,0U0 dollars in curre.v ) with orders to deposit it in the Martel bank. Murray finds the last stage for Martel has gone and takes the. money home with him "o guard it over night. Two tramps, who nave been watching him, follow him to the house bent on securing the package of money. During supper Murray j shows the package to his littlo daughter, Audrey, who delights in the ty coloured paper. Leaving the package with her, Murray goes to the stable to feed the horse, is waylaid by the tramps and knocked unconscious. Mary, the older sister, discovers the presence oh,, the trampJ as they peer through tho window,: hides the package in the bottom of, a chair, sets Audrey on it vyith in-j structions to guard it while she rides for tho Sheriff. Forcing an entrance into the house, the tramps find the two children apparently asleep and go into the bedroom. Instantly Mary runs out, mounts her horse and dashes madly down the moonlight trail toward town. Finding Mrs Murray ill in bed, the ruffians threaten her life if she refused to tell where tho money is. Little Audrey’ now begs them not to harm her mama and agrees to lead them to where the package is concealed. Pointing to a spot in the floor in tile adjoining room, the littlo heroine says the money is hidden under the boards, then coolly sits on the express package concealed in the chai • a id watches the robbers as the. hack away at the stout boards and mutter curses as their ante blades smp Meanwhile, Mary is leaJ'ng tho posse back at a furious pace up the moonlight trail and the two ruffians are suddenly dumfounded when the enraged cowboys hurst in and drag them away, leaving Murray to gather his little heroines in his arms and give thanks for their saving the express money at tho risk of their lives.”