"That would spoil it all. Let her deny herself in such a cause—it will not hurt her," the girl of the Red Mill said sensibly. "She has an object in life and should be encouraged to follow out her plan for helping Chief Totantora."
"Maybe he is not alive now," said Helen, thoughtfully.
"I would not suggest that," Ruth hastened to rejoin. "As long as she can hope, the better for Wonota. And I should not want her to find out that Totantora has died in captivity, before my picture is finished."
"Whoo!" breathed Jennie. "You sound sort of selfish, Ruthie Fielding."
"For her sake as well as for the sake of the picture," returned the other practically. "I tell you Wonota has got it in her to be a valuable asset to the movies. But I hope nothing will happen to make her fall down on this first piece of work. Like Mr. Hammond, I hope that she will develop into an Indian star of the very first magnitude."
CHAPTER XIII
DAKOTA JOE MAKES A DEMAND
At first Ruth and her friends did not worry about the presence of Fenbrook and his Wild West Show in Chicago.
"Just riding past the billboard of the show isn't going to hurt us," chuckled Jennie Stone.