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The Flapper [* = reconstructed title]

1* Imagine a town where they didn't even have a saloon to close - - and there you have

ORANGE SPRINGS 

2* A church social was a sporting event. Girls who hobnobbed at the

soda fountain were
  talked about.

3* Now you can sympathize with a certain girl living there.

Genevieve King -

  Miss Olive Thomas

4* You would hardly

call the little 

Kings roughnecks.

5*

 BILL E. FORBES

About to enter the world of romance and a northern military

    academy

6 Genevieve's father, Senator King - a very stern man in the eyes of his oppressed

  children.

7 The housekeeper, Miss Elmira Buttons,

 an old school
disciplinarian.

8 "Miss Paddles'

school would 
be just the
place for her."

9 Now you can appreciate the amazing changes when Genevieve found herself a few weeks later, at a boarding school near

    New York.

10 Limbs of Satan from

old family trees.

11

  The

ONCE OVER.

12 Hortense, a moth among the butterlies, taken into the school by the charitable principal.

13 Across the way -- a school for budding Pershings.

14 When it came to tooting his own horn, Bill E. Forbes made Sousa's band sound like a sick canary.

15 "Then the sailors

got fresh and I
mopped up the
ground with 'em."

16 HERO

WORSHIP.

17 "The cops kept

me from knocking
'em all cold."

18 "Gee! I bet he

could'a licked
  the cops!"

19 "I betcha!"

20 Boarding school studies are so

  dull --

21 But one study they all enjoyed -- the natural history of the

human male.

22 Their favorite specimen passed the school daily -- a mysterious and romantic figure --

      Richard Channing

23 They just knew he was

notorious, or very gay, or

perhaps an English lord - this made it so romantic.

24 "He looks

delightfully
wild and
dangerous!"

25 "Perhaps he's a

professional 
  gambler!"

26 "Or an actor!"

27 "He might

even be a
wife-beater!"

28 "The idea! My

heart tells me
he hasn't any
wife to beat
 --- yet!"

29 "To meet Bill E. Forbes again thus! -- Oh joy! -- Oh bliss! -- Oh romance!"

30 "Girls, isn't that

Forbes man a
wonderful athlete?"

31 "He's wounded!"

32 "Call the ambulance.

I've busted a couple
   o' my legs."

33 "Oh Bill, is there

anything I can
 do for you?"

34 "You might hold

   my head."

35 "Aw gee! He

ain't no hero!"

36 "Ski? -- huh! I'll

teach you to ski -"

37 [animated title] WHEE

38 "-- I wrote these

winter sports!"

39 "You don't happen

to know our
Mystery Man,
  do you?"

40 "Don't you think

he looks like a
  Greek god?"

41 "He looks like

a fried egg
  to me."

42 "He rides like

an old woman."

43 "I suppose you

are an expert!"

44 "Sure! Ever since

I was six years
old I've been
 an EXPERT!"

45 "Wouldn't it be

great to play
hookey and go
riding some day?"

46 "Yeh - wouldn't it

 ---- how about
  tomorrow?"

47 "You seem to

be having a
 busy day."

48 The call-down was worth

it - for the girls now
  called her Ginger.

49 "Get him! Just

watchin' the
atmosphere
float by and
sayin' nothin'."

50 "Yesterday he

brushed his teeth
---- three times!"

51 "-- and washed

behind his ears!"

52 "Sumpin' terrible's

wrong with him."

53 "Isn't this

romantic!"

54 It wasn't a darn bit romantic to BIll E. Forbes. He never had handled a horse before.

55 "Did you notice a

gentleman driving
away in a sleigh?"

56 "No, but I

saw a kid
chasing one."

57 "At present I am

a guest at Miss
Paddles' school."

58 "I pass there

every day - nice
lot of youngsters."

59 "We're nothing of

the kind. They
force us to act like
silly youngsters,
     but --"

60 "- can you imagine

a woman of my
age having to 
wear a Peter
 Thompson?"

61 "How old are you?"

62 "Oh - h - h,

about twenty."

63 "We're giving a dance

at the Country
Club tonight. Can
   you go?"

64 "Yes -- I'll go."

65 "What time

shall I call?"

66 "Don't call. I'll

meet you there
  - at ten."

67 "You wouldn't dare -"

68 "A woman dares

anything for the
man she loves."

69 "To think she's

leading a double
life! Isn't it
 wonderful!"

70 Poor Bill E. Forbes had the cornet blues.

71 "Goodness gracious!

 Another of my
   lovers!"

72 HEART TROUBLE!

73 "Poor Richard!

How he loves
    me!"

74

           Ten o'clock

Ginger's chauffeur sometimes delivered groceries to the

school in this
  limousine.

75 "You ought to

be arrested -
luring a sixteen-
year-old girl out
   at night!"

76 "My fan!"

77 "That's what you

get for being
nice to a kid of
that sap-headed,
 pin-feathered
     age."

78 So Ginger decides to end it all and teach him a terrible

 lesson.

79

 "Everything
stealable is stolen."

80 "We must keep

it quiet or the
school will be
  disgraced."

81 "I will settle

all the losses."

82 If life offered so many adventures, why die?

83 In a New York

 hotel. ----

To fugitives, every stranger looks like a bloodhound.

84 "I saw that Channing

guy in the lobby.
He might know of
the school job."

85 "You're right. That

King kid, Ginger,
will be going home
on her vacation
tomorrow. We'll
make her the goat."

86 Alone in the wicked city.

87 Ginger had read of a girl meeting a prince by doing this.

88 "Hello, Peaches-and-

Cream, whither bound?"

89 HOMEWARD

BOUND.

90

  THE

MYSTERIOUS APPOINTMENT.

91 "We were eloping.

We only stole
the stuff for an
  adventure."

92 "Sure, didn't Old

Girl Paddles tell
you the stuff had
 been returned?"

93 "Mr. Channing

is stopping
 here too."

94 "Why not dine

with us and
stay overnight?"

95 Back home at Orange Springs Bill E. Forbes made up his

 mind to stand in with
      the family.

96 Ginger's first experience in "stepping

  out."

97 "How disappointing!

I thought New York
cafes were filled
with wild women
and those terrible
Wall Street gamblers."

98 Oh sweet revenge --

to be seen by Channing in this gay night life.

99 "Does Miss Paddles

know you're out?"

100 "You talk as if

I were still at
that 'sap-headed,
pin-feathered' age."

101 "Do you live

in New York?"

102 "Orange Springs!

Why, a crowd of
us leave tomorrow
to join a yachting
party there. Better
take the same train."

103 "I'm afraid

that wild kid
is getting into
  trouble."

104 "He treats me

like a child."

105 "Of course. That

kind of man likes
only women of 
 experience."

106 "Well, I'm getting

 it as fast as I
      can."

107

  Can you imagine!

It was ten o'clock before she even

 went to bed.

108 "We're leaving

and we want
you to take
care of these."

109 "Take them to

Orange Springs -
and hide them."

110 "We'll come and

get them as soon
   as we can."

111 "And if you

 squeal -"

112

Great gobs

of adventure.

113 A complete outfit for a "woman of experience" ---- she might borrow it and vamp Channing.

114 Hortense's love letters, an education in themselves, suggested a new idea - she would go home

with a manufactured 
     "past."

115 "You are to mail

one every day."

116 Orange Springs wasn't expecting

   THIS

117 "William -- I'm not

the inncoent little
girl you used to
     know."

118 "It is better

that you never
see me again."

119 "Well, Buttons

deah! Here I
    am."

120 "Howdy, Cushie,

old top! How's
everyone in the
little old town?"

121 "Ta - ta."

122 "I have a

confession
to make --
I'm leading a
double life."

123 "- in New York

- in notorious
company - 'til all
hours in the
  morning."

124 "Why, it was only

a few days ago
-- she was just
a little flower."

125 "And her father

out of town!
Isn't this 
terrible!"

126 "Is it too late?"

127 "Too late!"

128 "Tell me

his name."

129 His name! This was a new angle!

130 "No -- I shall

die with the
secret locked
in my heart."

131 "I shall probably

become a dope
fiend, - to forget."

132 Having succeeded beyond her wildest hopes, she decides to get rid of the vampire outfit.

133 Then home came father.

134 "One of these letters

is arriving every
day. I am keeping
 them from her."

135 "You have no

idea who the
  man is?"

136 "I will kill

every suspect!"

137 "You knew your

old Daddy would
 forgive you."

138 "But it's all a

 joke, Daddy -"

139 "Aren't things

bad enough
without lying?"

140 You misjudge Bill. He isn't running away. He is beating the Senator to a suspect.

141 "You big stiff,

you'll have to
answer to me
for your crime!"

142 "Don't lie! Who

was in on this
  with you?"

143 "This is the

handwriting of
Tom Morran,
alias The Eel."

144 "Sorry, Senator,

we'll have to hold
her until she tells
where her pals
 are hiding."

145 HER "PALS."

146 "Safe? We couldn't

be safer in the
middle of the
Sahara Desert."

147 [animated title] They walked right in, and turned around, and --

148 "You didn't

fool me."

149 [mock newsreel title] ORANGE SPRINGS -

Social welfare workers
horrified over soft drink
dissipation at Miami
Beach Club  *  *  *

    SELZNICK
      NEWS

150 "Have a couple

   more."

Finis

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