Ruth Fielding in Moving Pictures; Or, Helping the Dormitory Fund

orld are those

win-brother, Tom. She turned from the barberry bush she had just cleared of fruit and, stan

liberately in the automobile seat to l

kering with the mechanism of the automobile

plained, carefully balancing the pail o

um, who was not looking

r eyes?" Ruth

," laughed Tom. "I see them. Why! ther

elen now demanded

some vexation. "Right ahead.

wouldn't see a meteor

. "Neither would you. Your knowledge of the heavenly bodies is v

l, I guarantee," said Ruth, slyly

"Where are these wonderful

chasing?" demanded Tom Camer

en up navigation with the other branches of higher mathematics at

sued Helen, "the actions of such a crazy crowd of people as those--Do

es another!"

om Tom, who was quite as mu

like Brown's cows," giggle

chases in the moving p

e. "That's exactly what it is," and she scram

hat?" aske

be a film in time. They are making a picture over yonder.

hought that was a fellow with a hand-or

elf," cried hi

Ruthie-to dance by," went on Tom. "Come on! I've got this thing fixed up so it will hobble along a l

Ruth, as she got into the ton

n the open in mid-winter," Helen rem

e Jabez was saying last evening that he doesn't re

eat you, now that you are a bloated capita

. "I don't feel puffed up at all-

use your wits to get it. We had just as good a chance as you did to discover that necklace a

ard should all have been mine," Ruth

," said Helen. "Not I! What does it matter how you got it?

esponded Rut

y n

doesn't really matter how the dear man feels," pursued Ruth Fielding, e

ver were that," Hel

ill you know Uncle Jabez only took me in becau

usiness. If you hadn't chanced to find The Fox's brother out there in the wilds of Montana,

h continued vehemence, had n

m for my tuition. And he has clothed me, and let me spend money going about with you 'richer folks,'" and Ruth laughed rather r

Tom, as the spark ignited a

ng of the Red Mill," chanted Helen, leani

the barberries

after working so hard to get them," Tom

p getting the bucket full. Just fancy finding barberries still c

Helen, selecting one gingerly

liest pies of them-with hucklebe

ries this time of year?" sco

artly. "I did help pick those and put them up last

d Tom. "Go on. Tell us some more

s!" exclaimed Helen, making a wr

tter. But those barberries properly prepared with sugar make a migh

complained his sister. "Oh, folks! t

they about?"

the focus of the camera, Tom," his sister

o desire to appear in

ke to," said his sister

It must be awfu

get into your heads next? And they don't l

atest stars in the film firmament are nothing more tha

hat commodity?" demanded T

hat girl! Now, Tommy, see there! T

ext moment, he ejaculated: "What under the sun is she doin

picture, scrambled up a leaning sycamore tree which overhung the stream at a sharp angle. The

When the engine was shut off they

Register fear, Miss Hazel. Say! act as though you meant it! Register fear, I say-just as though you

oisy, pugnacious man.

es, you are very much mistaken. I am. I

pen came to pass like a flash. Her foot slipped, she lost her