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"THE VEHGEAUCE OF BGYFT."

Heel #1.
Scene 1. Hapoleon with scholars have arrived in Egypt with his French
army and are viewing a mummy of the time of Rameses.
Scene 2. Included in Scene 1.
Scene 3. Lieut. Berard, officer of the guard becomee curious to see
the mummy.
Scene 3. Lieut. Berard takes the ring from the mummy's finger. He
writes to his fiancee telling her that this ring is probably
a thousand years old and will be their engagement rigg.
Soene 4. The scene shifts to France and shows the girl admiring the
ring after having received it. She has strange dreams in
which figures of six mummies appear to her in the darkness.
Scene 5. She writes to her sweet-heart telling of her pleasure be-
cause of the ring and that she soon hopes to see him in
France.
Reel #2.
Time Thirty Years Later.
Soene 1. Girl in last scene has remained unmarried and devoted her-
self to the care of her nephew. During a conversation with
her he takes the ring from her desk* and without her knowl-
edge takes it to his sweet-heart.
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Scene 2. After his departure the girl is strangled by a burglar.
Soene 3. The strangler offers the valuables he has stolen to. an »nti-_
quary, who suspecting that they were stolen, intimidates the
murderer into giving him the ring.
Scene 4. The antiquary on taking the ring from his finger is scratched
and he dies from a mysterious poison.
Soene 5. An auctioneer in selling the effects of the antiquary, sells
the ring to a young gallant.
Soene 6. The gallant's sweet-heart waiting for him by the river.

Soene 7. The girl sits by the river and repulses the attentions of her
sweet-heart's rival.
Soene 8. The sweet-heart rowing down the river to keep his tryst.
Scene 9. Included in 8.
Scene 10. The rival shoots the accepted lover from an ambush by the
river.

Scene 11. The empty boat floating down the river.

Scene l£. The sweet-heart leaning disconsolately against a tree

watching the empty boat.
Reel #3.

Scene 1. River scene young man and woman going down to enter a
row boat .-

Scene 2. Rowing oh the river.

Scene 3. Pioking water lilies, the young man plucks one which has a
ring around its stem.

Soene 4. The lovers leave the boat.

Soene 5. The lovers join the girl's father and mother sitting on a
piazza, telling of their engagement which is sanctioned.

Scene 6. Hangar of young man's aeroplane.

Scene 7. The young man having persuaded his prosxiective parents in

law to allow their daughter to take a flight with him,
they take their seats in the aeroplane and are pushed off by
attendants.

Scene 8. The aeroplane is high in air.

Scene 9. The parents watching the aeroplane see it crash to earth.

Soene 10. Shows the aeroplane with the girl and young man dead amid
itB wreckage.
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Scene 11. The grieved mother takes the ring from the daughter's dead
finger as the latter lies on a bed.

Scene 12. The grieved parents enter an automobile for a Journey.

Soene 13. Showing large picture of parents in automobile.

Soene 14. Still an automobile passing through city.

Soene 15 Getting on the outskirts of the town, rather rough country.

Still an automobile.

Scene 16 Automobile dashes uncontrollably down pathway toward the sea

Soene 17 Automobile dashes down the rocks of the precipice to the

sea below.

Soene 18 Fisherman drawing seine tfcretigfe the surf finds the ring..
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Scene 19. Study of Egyptian scholar. Fisherman presents ring to same.

Scene 20. Egyptian soholar in his study traces origin of the ring.

Scene 21. Ring is restored mummy Amestris in the museum.

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