"Where is he?" the manager asked, coming from the farmhouse with a
bundle of papers in his hand, after having called a rest period in
the barn-burning rehearsals.
"He's after--that man," replied Alice, hesitatingly, and then she
told what had happened.
"That man again!" cried Sandy Apgar, who overheard what was said.
"He'll not get away this time. I'm goin' after him on a hoss!"
He hurried to the stable, and leaped on the back of one of the
lighter farm animals, not even stopping for a saddle.
"Which way was he headed?" he asked the girls.
Ruth and Alice showed him, and Sandy set off over the fields in a
strange cross-country run, with a man-hunt at the end of it.
There was nothing for the company of players to do but await the
outcome, while the chase was kept up.
Meanwhile, what of Russ, Paul and the mysterious man?
When Paul turned around, after being on the chase for a little time,
and saw Russ coming toward him, he stopped to allow the young moving
picture operator to come up to him. For he saw that the pursuit was
to be a long one, and the man had such a start of him that a few
seconds' delay would make no difference.
On and on over the fields went the stranger, until he was headed down
a highway.
"When he gets on that it will be easier going," remarked Russ.
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