Aunt Jane's Nieces Out West

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He nodded.

"I know. But the fact that you signed such a contract, under compulsion,

would not prevent the court from awarding damages, if you sustained them

while on duty."

"This hurt is nothing of importance," she said hastily. "In a day or two

I shall be able to walk as well as ever."

Flo came running back with Maud's things. Aunt Jane followed, saying

that if Maud was to go to the hotel she would accompany her and take

care of her.

"I've examined the ankle," she said to young Jones, "and I assure you it

is not a severe strain. But it is true that she will be better off in her

own room, where she can rest quietly. So I will go with her."

"How about Miss Flo?" asked the boy.

"Flo is very self-reliant and will get along to-day very nicely without

me," replied Mrs. Montrose.

Mr. Goldstein entered, frowning and still resenting the interference of

this Mr. A. Jones of Sangoa. But he ventured no further protest nor did

he speak until Maud, Flo and Aunt Jane had all left the room.

"You're not going, Mr. Jones?" he asked.

"Only to see Miss Stanton started for home. Then I'll come back and have

a little talk with you."

"Thank you, sir."

CHAPTER XII

PICTURES, GIRLS AND NONSENSE

"Well, Aunt Jane," said Maud Stanton, when their car was rolling toward

the hotel and the girl had related the remarkable interview in the

office, "what do you think of Ajo now?"

"He is certainly an amazing young man," was the reply. "I cannot in any

way figure out his connection with Goldstein, or his power over the man.

The Continental Film Manufacturing Company is a great corporation, with

headquarters in New York, and Mr. Goldstein is the authorized head and

manager of the concern on the Pacific coast. I understand his salary is

ten thousand a year. On the other hand, young Jones has only been in this

country for a year, coming from an insignificant island somewhere in the

South Seas, where he was born and reared. Much of the time since he

arrived in America he has been an invalid.

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