"Vy shouldn't ve make ourselves yet into a committee und all go after
him?" asked Mr. Switzer. "Dot feller ought to be caught."
"That's true enough," agreed Mr. Pertell; "but we're here to make
moving pictures, and we can't do it if the whole company chases after
that fellow."
"Besides, something might happen," remarked Mr. Sneed, gloomily. "He
might have a gun and shoot us."
"Then I'm glad you girls didn't keep on after him," said Mr. DeVere
in his hoarse voice. "I wish you would take no further part in this
affair, Ruth and Alice," and he spoke earnestly.
"Don't worry, Daddy," laughed Alice. "I'm sure, after all, that the
man isn't dangerous. He wouldn't hurt us, that's certain, for he
loaned us the use of his cabin, and he was very polite about it."
"He doesn't seem to care about us," added Ruth. "For he runs every
time he sees us. Is there anything peculiar about us?"
"Yes," said Russ, "there is."
"What?"
"I'll tell you--some other time," he informed her, and Ruth grew rosy
red.
"Well, I suppose we could go on with the barn-burning scene," said
Mr. Pertell, when the chase had been discussed in all its phases. "I
did want Sandy on hand, though, as representing his father, the owner
of the farm, in case anything happens."
"I won't own the farm much longer," said Felix Apgar sadly.
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