Ruth stole away so quietly that neither one of them knew they had been observed. Safely out of earshot, she chuckled softly.
“I knew it,” she said to the empty woods. “It looks as if Layton Boardman were beginning to wake up at last!”
When Ruth was faced with the problem of where to make her interior cabin scene her mind went naturally to the Chase cabin.
When she suggested this to the girls they were happy to find that anything they owned could be of use to Ruth. The cabin was hers, they told her, for as long as she desired it.
So for the greater part of a day Ruth, Tom, and their electricians spent their time at the cabin, arranging the proper lighting for the important interior scene.
When the work was finished and they were on their way home, Ruth decided that she wanted to look over the lighting arrangements once more.
Tom proposed that he return with her, but Ruth begged him to go on to the settlement. She might want to roam about the cabin and its environs for some time and she knew that Tom was very tired that day, having worked over his books the night before until dawn.
Ruth became so absorbed in the work that the lateness of the hour escaped her attention. Now, as she once more came in sight of the Chase house, she saw to her surprise that twilight was stealing over the woods.
Was it this fact, she wondered, that made her feel suddenly nervous and apprehensive? Certainly she had been out on the edge of evening many times before and had never experienced this sensation.
She glanced about her uneasily, and as she did so thought she saw a shadowy figure slip about the corner of the cabin. Her breath coming quickly, she hastened her steps and passed softly around to the rear of the house, and crept to the window.