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

f the members of the company, who sat or stood near by panting after their hard

ature of the Lumano. At this point the eddies and cross-currents made t

There! she's spoiled the scene again. I don't know what Ha

s our chance of getting the picture to-day. Miss Gray will ha

e latter had struck out pluckily for the shore when she came up from her involun

tter at the best of times. To do this in mid-winter,

ad sprung to assist the unfortunate girl; but suddenly the current

ff in sight!"

sister. "She's being carried right d

th. "Hurry and start.

ll!" cried

ank. In a moment the engine was throbbing. Tom leaped

scattered as he bore down upon them. It gave Tom, as well as the girls, considerable

" swirled far out from the shore; but they knew the current or an eddy would bring her back

s, as she watched this fight for life which was more thrilli

d shown remarkable courage and self-possession in times of emergency

her Uncle Jabez Potter's Red Mill some years before, when she was a small girl. S

lls of the incidents which follow Ruth's coming to reside with her uncle, an

t far from the Red Mill. With Helen and Mercy Curtis, a lame girl, Ruth is sent to Briarwood Hall, a delightfully situated boarding school at some distance from the g

iff Island, where occur a number of remarkable winter incidents; at Sunset Farm during the previous summer; and finally, in

" tells of an automobile trip which Ruth and her present companions, Helen and Tom Camer

old and vindictive Gypsy Queen. Through Ruth's bravery Helen escapes and takes the ne

old Queen Zelaya. Later, when the girls return to Briarwood, they learn that an au

Roberto, is rescued and in time becomes a protégé of Mr. Cameron, while the stolen ne

e is enriched beyond her wildest dreams, and above all, is made independent of the nigg

ver refuse a helping hand to the needy; nor did she fear to risk her own

y months since she and her uncle, Jabez Potter, out upon the Lumano in a boat, had nearly lost their lives. Th

she will be swept out into mid-stream," declared Ruth,

answered Tom. "I know

before the current sweeps her in

roaned Helen.

Gray. An eddy clutched her and drew her swiftly in toward the bank. Immed

lay beside the road. Tom seized this and ran with Ruth to the edge o

'll get something better in

m dropped it into the water just ahead of the imperiled gi

Tommy," she ordered. "You have wire-

thout 'em since we were at Silver R

to reach the bank of the river without help, and just here

the girl to get into a perilous position on the leaning tree without having a boat and crew in readiness to pick her up if

t she could not long cling to the limb. It was

she motioned them back. She knew that the girl in the stream was almost exhausted

ch it!" cried Ruth, as one excited man u

Miss! you'll be pu

he Red Mill returned. "I know what I

She gazed upon the wet, white face of the girl in the water and knew tha

utomobile with clasped hands. "Don't let her dr

ehind him. Luckily it was smooth wire-not barbed. He quickly made a loop i

Make a loop as I have, and don't

cold water?" Ruth gasped, suddenly stri

ad seen, too, the exhaustion of the girl in the water and knew that if her

s over his head right here below the bank, and the chill of the water was tre

for the face of the girl, which was a

e was losing consciousness. If she was carried away by the suction of the stream, now dragging so strongly at her limbs, Tom Cameron would be obliged to

ituation was, Tom thought