The Cowboy Preacher (1910)
Although a somewhat stern father, John Dentworth aimed to be a just one, but now he felt at a loss just how to proceed. The mortgage which Jake Schroder held would be foreclosed to-day unless Jane consented to marry the young man, and that she would take Schroder in preference to the Easterner, Bob Henderson, Dentworth doubted most seriously. Then if she refused, what? Besides lifting the mortgage, would he not be securing his daughter's future happiness if he forced her to accept Schroder? An honest, wholesome, good-hearted young man whom everybody liked, and who, Dentworth argued, would surely make a better husband than the Easterner. At this juncture his daughter appeared and he braced himself for the ordeal, and an ordeal it proved, for Jane, as he had feared, absolutely refused to obey even his commands and he found that instead of going to her room, as he had ordered, she had evaded him with the aid of her brother's hat and coat and hurried out to meet Bob Henderson. Fortunately he and Schroder discovered the lovers before they had an opportunity to get away. So, sending Jane to the house, he struck Bob a stunning blow with the butt of his whip and would have repeated his attack had not Schroder interfered. The Easterner, however, bore him no grudge, but hastened to his hotel to await Tim's arrival, as Jane had promised to send her brother to him should she need his aid. And need it she did, sooner than she had expected. For both her father's anger and Schroder's jealousy bad been aroused in finding her with Bob, so that her final appeal to them had fallen upon deaf ears, and she found herself locked in her room to await their cowboy-preacher. Bob had, therefore, scarcely arrived at his hotel and gotten horses in readiness for immediate flight when Tim came panting up with the note from Jane which she bad succeeded in throwing out of the window to him. And though he and Tim made all possible speed, they would scarcely have arrived on time, bad not the cowboy-preacher insisted on removing his "preacher outfit" and solemnly hiding his Bible before he would accept a drink, and then quite solemnly turning back into the "preacher" before he would allow the prospective bride to be admitted. As it was Jane had hardly gotten to the bottom of the ladder placed at her window when her father appeared above. But although she and Bob had had but a few moment's start, they succeeded in getting out of sight, dismounting and sending their horses adrift to throw her enraged father and Schroder off the scent, and stealing back to the house, where, as they expected, they found the cowboy-preacher. For the moment Dentworth and Schroder galloped away in pursuit the cowboy-preacher all at once became all cowboy. However, having finished the bottle, he again donned his clerical robes and. feeling in a jovial mood with the world in general, Bob and Jane, aided by Tim and another cowboy, had little difficulty in persuading him to perform the marriage ceremony. Only the mortgage remained now to worry the young bride. But Schroder, upon finding he had lost. lived up to his reputation of big-heartedness and actually insisted upon Dentworth accepting the mortgage as Jane's wedding gift.
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| Filmmakers | Role |
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| Milton J. Fahrney | Director |
| David Horsley | Producer |
