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Show DOUGLAS FIBIKS li "IBTTI MADNESS" Steve O'Dare, a rich young man, who has lived for some years on his Nevada ranch and has become a full-fledged full-fledged "buckaroo," returns to New York for a visit. Hopping off the cattle cat-tle train, on which he has ridden east with a bunch of his cowboys and a load of stock, he jumps into his waiting wait-ing automobile and speeds to the University Uni-versity club, of which he is a member. There follows a week of New York gaiety with his club companions, but Steve fails to get any thrills out of the pleasures of the great white way, and society forced him to extinction. He tells the boys that there isn't a thrill in Manhattan. One of the men at the table offers to bet him $5000 that if he will stay in New York a week he will get the thrill of his life. Steve takes the bet. Remembering that ho has sold stock to Count Marinoff ho wonders wheth-or wheth-or it might not be possible for him to meet the beautiful ward. The problem prob-lem Is solved when the count calls Steve up and asks him to come to his home, which he has leased in the suburbs, sub-urbs, to talk about further purchases. Steve goes anu meets tne ward. Soon a note passed to Steve by the girl's maid tells him that the girl is in great peril and wants him to help her. The count being called away, the maid directs Steve to go up to the second floor. Ascending the stairs, he drops through a trap door on the landing land-ing and is bound and gagged by the count's buttler In a closet under the stairs, but the maid releases him and he gets to a telephone, where he calls up the boys at the club. With their aid Steve quickly turns the tables on the jokers. nn |