Ruth Fielding in Moving Pictures

Fielding in Moving Pictures, by
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Title: Ruth Fielding in Moving Pictures Or Helping The Dormitory
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Author: Alice Emerson
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Ruth Fielding In Moving Pictures
OR

HELPING THE DORMITORY FUND
BY ALICE B. EMERSON
AUTHOR OF "RUTH FIELDING OF THE RED MILL," "RUTH
FIELDING ON CLIFF ISLAND," ETC.
ILLUSTRATED
NEW YORK
CUPPLES & LEON COMPANY
PUBLISHERS
Books for Girls
BY ALICE B. EMERSON
RUTH FIELDING SERIES
12mo. Cloth. Illustrated.
RUTH FIELDING OF THE RED MILL Or, Jasper Parloe's Secret.
RUTH FIELDING AT BRIARWOOD HALL Or, Solving the Campus
Mystery.
RUTH FIELDING AT SNOW CAMP Or, Lost in the Backwoods.
RUTH FIELDING AT LIGHTHOUSE POINT Or, Nita, the Girl
Castaway.
RUTH FIELDING AT SILVER RANCH Or, Schoolgirls Among the
Cowboys.
RUTH FIELDING ON CLIFF ISLAND Or, The Old Hunter's Treasure
Box.

RUTH FIELDING AT SUNRISE FARM Or, What Became of the
Baby Orphans.
RUTH FIELDING AND THE GYPSIES Or, The Missing Pearl
Necklace.
RUTH FIELDING IN MOVING PICTURES Or, Helping the
Dormitory Fund
RUTH FIELDING DOWN IN DIXIE Or, Great Times in the Land of
Cotton.
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CUPPLES & LEON CO., PUBLISHERS. NEW YORK.
COPYRIGHT, 1916, BY CUPPLES & LEON COMPANY
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RUTH FIELDING IN MOVING PICTURES
Printed in U.S.A.
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[Illustration: IN THE ITALIAN GARDEN SCENES, THE SENIORS
AND JUNIORS WERE USED Ruth Fielding in Moving Pictures]
CONTENTS
I. NOT IN THE SCENARIO 1
II. THE FILM HEROINE 9
III. AT THE RED MILL 18
IV. A TIME OF CHANGE 28

V. "THAT'S A PROMISE" 36
VI. WHAT IS AHEAD? 46
VII. "SWEETBRIARS ALL" 52
VIII. A NEW STAR 60
IX. THE DEVOURING ELEMENT 67
X. GAUNT RUINS 76
XI. ONE THING THE OLD DOCTOR DID 84
XII. "GREAT OAKS FROM LITTLE ACORNS GROW" 90
XIII. THE IDEA IS BORN 100
XIV. AT MRS. SADOC SMITH'S 108
XV. A DAWNING POSSIBILITY 117
XVI. THE CAT OUT OF THE BAG 125
XVII. ANOTHER OF CURLY'S TRICKS 134
XVIII. THE FIVE-REEL DRAMA 141
XIX. GREAT TIMES 153
XX. A CLOUD ARISES 161
XXI. HUNTING FOR AMY 168
XXII. DISASTER THREATENS 176
XXIII. PUTTING ONE'S BEST FOOT FORWARD 183
XXIV. "SEEING OURSELVES AS OTHERS SEE US" 190

XXV. AUNT ALVIRAH AT BRIARWOOD HALL 201

RUTH FIELDING IN MOVING PICTURES
CHAPTER I
NOT IN THE SCENARIO
"What in the world are those people up to?"
Ruth Fielding's clear voice asked the question of her chum, Helen
Cameron, and her chum's twin-brother, Tom. She turned from the
barberry bush she had just cleared of fruit and, standing on the high
bank by the roadside, gazed across the rolling fields to the Lumano
River.
"What people?" asked Helen, turning deliberately in the automobile
seat to look in the direction indicated by Ruth.
"Where? People?" joined in Tom, who was tinkering with the
mechanism of the automobile and had a smudge of grease across his
face.
"Right over the fields yonder," Ruth explained, carefully balancing the
pail of berries. "Can't you see them, Helen?"
"No-o," confessed her chum, who was not looking at all where Ruth
pointed.
"Where are your eyes?" Ruth cried sharply.
"Nell is too lazy to stand up and look," laughed Tom. "I see them. Why!
there's quite a bunch--and they're running."
"Where? Where?" Helen now demanded, rising to look.
"Oh, goosy!" laughed Ruth, in some vexation. "Right ahead. Surely you

can see them now?"
"Oh," drawled Tom, "sis wouldn't see a meteor if it fell into her lap."
"I guess that's right, Tommy," responded his twin, in some scorn.
"Neither would you. Your knowledge of the heavenly bodies is very
small indeed, I fear. What do they teach you at Seven Oaks?"
"Not much about anything celestial, I guarantee," said Ruth, slyly. "Oh!
there those folks go again."
"Goodness me!" gasped Helen. "Where are these wonderful persons?
Oh! I see them now."
"Whom do you suppose they are chasing?" demanded Tom Cameron.
"Or, who is chasing them?"
"That's it, Tommy," scoffed his sister. "I understand you have taken up
navigation with the other branches of higher mathematics at Seven
Oaks; and now you want to trouble Ruth and me with conundrums.
"Are we soothsayers, that we should be able to explain, off-hand,"
pursued Helen, "the actions of such a