At present the young actor was too engrossed by the details of his daring leap to remember small things.

The leap was achieved at last.
He was in the saddle after a twenty-foot drop.

He gathered up the reins, the horse beneath him coughed plaintively, and Merton rode him out of the picture.

Baird took a load off his mind as to this bit of riding.
"Will you want me to gallop ?" he asked, recalling the unhappy experience with Dexter.
"No; just walk him beyond the camera line.

The camera'll trick it up all right." So, safely, confidently, he had ridden his steed beyond the lens range at a curious shuffling amble, and his work at the Come All Ye Dance Hall was done.
Then came some adventurous days in the open.