INSERT (II) News head, TERRIBLE TRAIN WRECK. HOYTSVILLE LOCAL PLUNGES THRU FAULTY TRESTLE.
SCENE 12. (Continued.)
Dalton devours news; boy demands payment and he absently hands him coin; boy offers change, but he moves away, paying no attention.
SCENE 13. Same as 5. Living-room.
Enter Dalton still reading; pauses; realizes no one is there to welcome him; shrugs shoulders and sits down shaking his head; suddenly espies note in mirror; seizes it with a look of apprehension; reads, falling back in chair and clutching his hair; rises unsteadily; gropes his way out his face contorted in agony.
CAPTION 3. MRS. DONNELLY INCOGNITO OFFERS AID.
SCENE 14. Stretch of Road. (Train wreck and field hospital visible.)
Crowd held back by guards, evidently railroad employes. Donnelly car drives on; Mrs. Donnelly orders car stopped and alights, inquiring the trouble; face convulsed in horror; asks guard to let her pass; he refuses; she shows pass; he takes off his hat and sends one of men with her.
SCENE 15. Field Hospital Near Scene of Wreck.
Mrs. Dalton on stretcher in foreground; she becomes conscious; cries for Arthur. But everyone seems to be working over form on cot a few feet away; a doctor steps aside; Mrs. Dalton screams and creeps toward them; falls, fainting as she clasps a limp little hand; Arthur is revealed to audience. Doctor turns to companion.