The Sherlock Holmes Girl (1914)

The rise to fame of Sally, maid-of-all-work at Jonesville's Palace Hotel, was occasioned solely because some absent-minded guest had left a book behind when he departed from the Palace Hotel's somewhat-limited splendors. The book was a treatise on the ancient, gentle art of detecting. Filled with a desperate zeal to distinguish herself, Sally decided to 'shadow' the very next guest who arrived in the hotel--and this very first guest was plainly a suspicious character; he was quietly dressed a perfectly respectable in appearance. So Sally shadowed the stranger in the most approved fashion. When he locked the door to his room, she looked over the transom. Sure enough, he took some jewels out of his suitcase. Sally instantly summoned the police. Entering the room to keep the man under closer surveillance, she accidentally pointed a fan shaped like a pistol at him. Instantly his hands shot above his head. The funny part was he really was the thief. Sally pocketed the reward and departed.

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