Also, in the present piece, the
country boy was to become a great inventor, and this was different.
Merton felt that this was a good touch; it gave him dignity.
He appeared ready for work on the morning designated. He was now
able to make up himself, and he dressed in the country-boy costume
that had been provided. It was perhaps not so attractive a costume
as Edgar Wayne had worn, consisting of loose-fitting overalls that
came well above his waist and were fastened by straps that went over
the shoulders; but, as Baird remarked, the contrast would be greater
when he dressed in rich city clothes at the last. His hair, too, was
no longer the slicked-back hair of Parmalee, but tousled in country
disorder.
For much of the action of the new piece they would require an
outside location, but there were some interiors to be shot on the
lot. He forgot the ill-fitting overalls when shown his attic
laboratory where, as an ambitious young inventor, sustained by the
unfaltering trust of mother and sister, he would perfect certain
mechanical devices that would bring him fame, fortune, and the love
of a pure New York society girl.
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