heavy for. No--that's out."
"Wait, I have it." Henshaw beamed with a new inspiration. "You just
said a sailor could have his sister wronged, so why not have one on the
yacht, a good strong type, you know, and his little sister was wronged
by the heavy, and he'd never known who it was, because the little
girl wouldn't tell him, even on her death-bed, but he found the chap's
photograph in her trunk, and on the yacht he sees that it was this same
heavy--and there you are. Revenge--see what I mean? He fights with the
heavy on the cliff, after showing him the little sister's picture,
and pushes him over to death on the rocks below--get it? And the
lead doesn't have to kill him. How about that?" Henshaw regarded his
companion with pleasant anticipation.

The Governor again debated before he spoke. He still doubted. "Say,
whose show is this, the lead's or the sailor's that had the wronged
sister? You'd have to show the sailor and his sister, and show her being
wronged by the heavy--that'd take a big cabaret set, at least--and you'd
have to let the sailor begin his stuff on the yacht, and then by the
time he'd kept it up a bit after the wreck had pulled off the fight,
where would your lead be? Can you see Parmalee playing second to this
sailor? Why, the sailor'd run away with the piece. And that cabaret set
would cost money when we don't need it--just keep those things in mind a
little."

"Well," Henshaw submitted gracefully, "anyway, I think my suggestion
of Island Love is better than Island Passion--kind of sounds more
attractive, don't you think?"

The Governor lighted a cigarette. "Say, Howard, it's a wonderful
business, isn't it? We start with poor old Robinson Crusoe and his goats
and parrot and man Friday, and after dropping Friday's sister who would
really be the Countess of Kleig, we wind up with a steam-yacht and a
comic butler and call it Island Love. Who said the art of the motion
picture is in its infancy? In this case it'll be plumb senile. Well, go
ahead with the boys and dope out your hogwash. Gosh! Sometimes I think I
wouldn't stay in the business if it wasn't for the money. And remember,
don't you let a single solitary sailor on that yacht have a wronged
sister that can blame it on the heavy, or you'll never have Parmalee
playing the lead."

Again Merton Gill debated bringing himself to the notice of these
gentlemen. If Parmalee wouldn't play the part for any reason like a
sailor's wronged sister, he wou