The 'Revenue' and the Girl (1911)
The revenue officers plan to attack an illicit still located in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Kentucky. Martin is sent ahead to reconnoiter. While on his way he meets a daughter of the hills, who, suspecting his design, sets him on the wrong trail. Riding on a short distance he learns he is going the wrong way and turns back. Taking up the trail of the girl, he follows her to the still and is captured by the lookout. In the meantime the revenue officers, becoming anxious, search the hills with powerful glasses. From the side of a faraway hill they see three or four men apparently coming out of the earth. Noting the location, they come upon the moonshiners and effect a capture. Returning to the place where they saw the men come out they find the entrance to a natural cave. Entering, they capture the balance of the moonshiners and set fire to the still. Bess, who has been away, returns to the still after the capture, and finds the cave filled with smoke. Knowing that Martin, the revenue officer, is confined in an inner room, she, at the risk of her life, enters, cuts the revenue man's hands and drags him to air and freedom. In the meantime, the revenue officers have taken the moonshiners to their nearby home preparatory to taking them to the nearest country seat for trial. Bess and Martin arriving at the house, Martin tells of his rescue by the brave girl. While Martin is describing his capture and rescue, Bess learns that her father and brothers are bound and prisoners in the adjoining room. A plan to free them quickly enters her head. Turning to the revenue men she says, "You'all must try our mountain water before you go." Taking the bucket she starts out for the well. Quickly changing her course, she runs around a corner of the house, crawls in a window of the room where the captives are held prisoners. Cutting the cords that bind them they rapidly make their escape. Returning to the house Bess gives each of the revenue men a drink of water and engages them in conversation in order to give time for the prisoners to get a good start. A few minutes later, however, their escape is discovered and they are about to arrest Bess on suspicion of aiding them. One of the revenue men picks up a note in the room recently occupied by the prisoners, reading: "Give you our word never to cross with the law again. You will find your horses at the Spider Creek Bridge. We mean to play the game square. Don't touch the little girl. Remember she saved Martin's life. The Gormands of Kentucky." The "Revenues" decide to take the matter philosophically and start off on foot for their horses.
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