The Moving Picture Girls Under the Palms / Or Lost in the Wilds of Florida

't it be

rgeous place

mpany had been taken. They were looking out into the ladies' court-into a sun-lit and p

owers, but to the moving picture girls the palm

e anything so beautiful," murmured Ruth, reverentl

l the storm and stress of the fire

hind the two girls. They turned, with a start, for they had lost themselves in a

he money under these circumstan

agreed Alice. "Oh, but

y searching for

ang expressions; but Alice always boasted that she liked to take "short cuts," and that slang-t

nger girl. "You don't mind that; do you, sister mine? This is r

e hopeless," was

that's my word for it," answ

going to one of the largest and finest hotels in St. Augustine. He intended to stage some scenes of one of t

roposed Russ. "There's

ed with making films. The fire aboard the Tarsus, and the necessity of taking anoth

readily falling in with the propos

ink s

city in the United States. I've got some guide books up in my room, and

in the city and vicinity, so you'll probably have to act out around Fort Marion and at Fort Mantanzas, as well as i

ul to return, the girls slip

on the part of Ruth, either. The day was perfect-like summer-and the girls, knowing th

with her fair hair and blue eyes she was a picture that made mo

e with maroon trimming, and her sparkling brown eyes were dancing with life

Russ, but with a laugh that t

lice, determined not

through an avenue of palms and many tropical p

ighed Ruth. "I think the Garden of

r a palm tree, with bananas for lunch and oranges for dinner. And when your-er-your hero-we'll s

ter. "But a svelte figure is

declared Alice. "Really it is I w

ssoms," fin

she bowed grac

the guide?" asked Russ, as they emer

we go out to the old city ga

" agreed Alice. "I

nd stood before the old city gates. These once formed p

om the bronze tablet set in the masonry by the D

I'll snap you," he invited. "If you think that's old we'll go to

ied Ruth, with such sudden in

it is," said Alice. "Do

nd she too, laughed. Her cheeks were the color of br

se of being mean and t

he banks of the Mantanzas River, they found much of intere

Russ told the girls. "There's an importan

n it?" as

d Mr. Pertell said he'd hav

xtra persons to impersonate the unimportant characters in

-the Fountain of Youth!" cried Paul

ul combination!"

ms!" and she clapped her

h in a low voice, as the

ister o

o much of ora

thinking of g

Ali

't that wha

ll, I onl

Come on, we'll be lost!" and she caught Ruth