"The second day of the big blizzard?" cried Nan.
"That's the very day," agreed Bess. "It's when Sallie and Celia would have got here if they were coming to Chicago."
"Hi!" exclaimed the flower girl. "What's you talkin' about? Who's Sallie and Celia?"
"Girls whom we think came to the city the other day just as you said,"
Nan explained. "They have run away to be moving picture actresses."
"Hi!" exclaimed the flower-seller again. "What sort o' lookin' girls?"
"Why—I don't know exactly," confessed Nan. "Do we, Bess? Mrs. Morton said Sallie took with her those photographs that were taken while the girls were playing as extras in 'A Rural Beauty.'"
"That's it!" suddenly interrupted the flower-girl. "I bet I seen those two. They didn't call each other 'Sallie' and 'Celia'; but they had some fancy names—I forgot what."
"Oh! are you sure?" cried Bess.
"They had them photographs just like you say. They showed 'em to me. You see," said the little girl, "I showed 'em where they could eat cheap, and they told me how they was going to join a movie company."