The Moving Picture Girls Snowbound Or, The Proof on the Film   By: Laura Lee Hope

Or

The Proof on the Film

by

LAURA LEE HOPE

Author of "The Moving Picture Girls," "The Moving Picture Girls at Oak Farm," "The Outdoor Girls Series," "The Bobbsey Twins Series," Etc.

Illustrated

The World Syndicate Publishing Co. Cleveland New York Made in U.S.A. Copyright, 1914, by Grosset & Dunlap

Press of The Commercial Bookbinding Co. Cleveland

[Illustration: THE MOVING PICTURE RACE WAS ON.

The Moving Girls Snowbound. Page 113.]

CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE

I TROUBLE 1

II AN UNPLEASANT VISITOR 10

III RUSS TO THE RESCUE 20

IV A FUNNY FILM 27

V A QUEER ACCIDENT 36

VI NEW PLANS 46

VII OFF TO THE WOODS 56

VIII A BREAKDOWN 63

IX THE BLIZZARD 73

X AT ELK LODGE 79

XI THROUGH THE ICE 89

XII THE CURIOUS DEER 99

XIII THE COASTING RACE 106

XIV ON SNOWSHOES 114

XV A TIMELY SHOT 124

XVI IN THE ICE CAVE 132

XVII THE RESCUE 139

XVIII SNOWBOUND 148

XIX ON SHORT RATIONS 158

XX THE THAW 166

XXI IN THE STORM 174

XXII THE THREE MEN 181

XXIII THE PLAN OF RUSS 191

XXIV THE PROOF ON THE FILM 199

XXV THE MOVING PICTURE 207

THE MOVING PICTURE GIRLS SNOWBOUND

CHAPTER I

TROUBLE

"Daddy is late; isn't he, Ruth?" asked Alice DeVere of her sister, as she looked up from her sewing.

"A little," answered the girl addressed, a tall, fair maid, with deep blue eyes, in the depths of which hidden meaning seemed to lie, awaiting discovery by someone.

"A little!" exclaimed Alice, who was rather plump, and whose dark brown hair and eyes were in pleasing contrast to her sister's fairness. "Why, he's more than an hour late, and he's seldom that! He promised to be back from the moving picture studio at four, and now it's after five."

"I know, dear, but you remember he said he had many things to talk over with Mr. Pertell, and perhaps it has taken him longer than he anticipated.

"Besides you know there are some new plans to be considered," went on Ruth. "Mr. Pertell wants to get some different kinds of moving pictures snow scenes, I believe and perhaps he has kept daddy to talk about them. But why are you so impatient? Are you afraid something has happened to him?"

"Gracious, no! What put that idea into your head?"

"Well, I didn't know whether you had noticed it or not, but poor daddy hasn't been quite himself since we came back from Oak Farm. I am afraid something is bothering him or worrying him."

"Perhaps it is his voice, though it has seemed better of late."

"I think not," said Ruth, slowly, as she bent her head in a listening attitude, for a step was coming along the hallway in the Fenmore Apartment, where the DeVere girls and their father had their rather limited quarters.

"That isn't he," said Ruth, with a little sigh of disappointment. "I thought at first it was. No, I don't mean that it was his voice, Alice. That really seems better since he so suddenly became hoarse, and had to take up moving picture work instead of the legitimate drama he loves so much. It is some other trouble, Alice."

"I hadn't noticed it, I confess. But I suppose you'll say that I'm so flighty I never notice anything."

"I never called you flighty, dear. You are of a lively disposition, that's all."