The Adventure of the Missing Legacy (1914)
When Pat Dolan, gardener on the Penningtons' Long Island estate, came into a legacy of $4,000, he felt as if the sky had dropped on his head. With the sack of gold pieces he carried home from the bank, Pat brought a couple of bottles of fine old Irish whiskey. His first impulse was to celebrate, and celebrate he did, in a befitting and proper manner. It happened that Octavius was spending his vacation at the Penningtons' place. When Pat Dolan's two beautiful daughters rushed madly up to the house, and with tears and lamentations complained that their father's recently-acquired wealth had been stolen. Octavius instantly offered his services for regaining the missing money. Arrived at the scene of the crime, Octavius discovered that Pat Dolan had only the vaguest of notions as to what had happened to his money. He dimly remembered counting it, but had no idea what occurred after that. With a magnifying glass, Octavius conducted a careful search of Pat's house and the land around it. He discovered a multiplicity of clues, but all of them seemed to lack a certain amount of pertinence in furthering the eventual solution of the mystery. For instance, the alarming hand-prints he found on the kitchen wall were proved to have been made by Pat while fixing the stove, and of the three footprints Octavius discovered on the lawn, one was found to have been made by Pat, one by Nancy, and the third by Octavius himself. After a few more illuminating discoveries of this order, Pat grew tired of following Octavius about, and returned to his sadly depleted whiskey bottles. When Octavius saw him about half an hour later, Pat was wandering about, singing happily. Considering him a suspicious person, Octavius followed him. Pat got all tangled up with the clothesline, and Octavius, endeavoring to extricate him, discovered that the end of the clothesline led down the well. He pulled it up and discovered the bag of money exactly where the intoxicated Pat had hidden it. Octavius would have stood about all day telling Pat's beautiful daughters how he solved the mystery, if Mrs. Pennington had not pulled him away by his ear.
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GenresComedy
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| Filmmakers | Role |
|---|---|
| Charles M. Seay | Director |
| Frederic Arnold Kummer | Writer |
| Cast | Role |
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| Barry O'Moore | |
| Edward O'Connor | |
| Charles Sutton | |
| Gladys Hulette |
