She Got the Money (1911)
On her way to her husband, from whom she has been separated from some months, Emily Edwards finds herself stranded in a strange town. Wiring her husband for money that she may continue her journey to him, she seeks lodgings at a fashionable hotel. Anxious and worried over her affairs she at once excites the hotel proprietor's suspicions and the latter cautions a bellboy to keep his eye on the woman. In her room she unpacks her grips and brings out a fan, the handle of which resembles a revolver. She then writes a few letters and asks the bellboy to mail them. He mails them and then opens a scrap of crumpled paper which Mrs. Edwards had thrown on the floor and reads: "Dear Mother, Unable to endure further separation from Jack. I have resolved to bl---." The sentence is chopped off here by a blot on the paper. Remembering the revolver which the woman had, the bellboy immediately concludes that the woman is going to blow her head off and summoning the proprietor, tells him the news and they both bolt for the room upstairs. The proprietor, thinking he is saving the reputation of the hotel, buys the revolver at a ridiculous figure and orders the woman from the hotel. Later, he learns how badly he has been stung when he pulls open the revolver to find that it is nothing more than a fan.
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