The Twin Towers (1911)
The Chevalier and his bride, Miriam, are about to leave their palace, but find that with the mob at their gates escape is cut off. They hear them blow open the doors and rush up the stairs. The Chevalier and his bride secrete themselves in a window recess behind the curtains and as the mob, not finding them in the room, passes on to the other rooms, they quickly open the window and drop from the balcony to the ground. However, the leader of the mob, returning to the room, sees the open window and looking out, discovers them escaping. They start in pursuit. The Chevalier tries to throw their pursuers off the track by taking refuge in the deserted Chateau of the Twin Towers. They have hardly entered however, when the three ruffians appear and seeing no other possible means of escape, decide to search the chateau. The Chevalier, having safely placed his wife in one of the towers, leaves her to go for the horses. He has scarcely disappeared, however, when the three ruffians, having ascended the other tower, discover her in the opposite tower. They proceed to put a plank across and one of them starts over, but as he is about to step into the other tower and seize her, she grasps the end of the plank, and giving it a quick turn, dashes him to death below and draws the plank into the tower. The other two, stunned at first by the death of their comrade, now swear to be avenged and descend hastily in order to reach the other tower. She hears them ascending and closes the trap door leading into the tower. The ruffians begin battering in the door, and seeing it about to give, she seizes the plank, puts it across to the other tower, and runs across just as they burst their way into the tower she has just left. As soon as the ruffians start back to seize their apparently fainting victim, Miriam gets to her feet and hastily puts the plank over to the other tower again and crosses just in the nick of time. One is to remain in the tower, while the other ascends the other tower, thus cutting off escape both ways. Miriam overhears their plans and resolves to face death bravely. She hears someone ascending the steps and seizing a stool, is about to strike him as his head appears through the trap door, when, to her great relief, she finds it to be the Chevalier. As the ruffian comes into the tower the Chevalier fells him with a blow of the stool. Hastily donning the insensible man's coat and hat, he signals to the other in the opposite tower to come over. He loses no time in doing so and when he enters the tower through the trap, he and the Chevalier engage in a terrific hand-to-hand fight. At the critical moment Miriam seizes the ruffian by the feet and together they hurl him from the window. The Chevalier finds in the pocket of the coat he is wearing a paper stating that the bearer is a member of the National Assembly. Armed with this they make their way from the tower, only to be confronted by a number of citizens who, having seen the waiting horses, demand an explanation. The Chevalier presents his membership paper and taking the leader aside, confidentially explains that the woman is a Royalist whom he has captured and whom he is taking to his house as a prisoner. This appeals to their rude sense of humor, and wishing him joy of his prisoner, they go their way. Finding themselves at last free, the Chevalier and his bride mount their horses and hurry away.
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