His editor tells him newspapers seldom pursue such stories anymore, because of the expense involved in sending a reporter to a far off place. He wants a story which will earn him fame and Gladys' respect. He approaches his editor, McArdle, with the request that he be sent on a mission for the newspaper. Ned leaves her to fulfill his mission of becoming an adventurer and risk all, to win the heart of Gladys. Gladys asserts that he needs to make his own chances and then go after them. Ned explains to her that these opportunities are few and far between, so the chances of him pursuing a death defying dream is slim. She tells him she wants to marry a famous man. She wants to be the woman behind a man of such great accomplishments. She cites the example of Lord Stanley, as a man willing to risk all to achieve his goals.

She tells him she has always wanted a man of daring, who would risk his life in the pursuit of great deeds. He asks her why he would not make a worthy husband. She tells him she knows he is about to propose and she hopes he reconsiders his actions. He has fallen in love with the lovely vivacious Gladys and is working up the courage to express his feelings to her.Īt last he is alone with her, so he is thinking of how to propose to her, but she cuts him off before he is able to speak. Her father thinks Ned is visiting him, but Ned is actually there to see Gladys. Ned Malone is spending another evening in the company of Gladys Hungerton and her father.

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