"Now see here!" exclaimed Mr. Pertell, with more anger than he usually displayed. "You'll take that part, Mr. Bunn, or leave the company! It is an important part, and has to do with the development of the plot. Why, as that waiter you intercept the taking of ten thousand dollars, and prevent the heroine from being abducted. Afterward you become rich, and blossom out as a theatrical manager."
"And do I produce Shakespeare?" asked the old actor, eagerly.
"There's nothing to stop you—in the play," returned Mr. Pertell, rather drily.
"Oh, then it's all right," said Mr. Bunn, with a sigh of relief. "I'll take the part."
Rehearsals were going on in various parts of the studio, and some plays were being filmed. Russ Dalwood was busy at one of the cameras.
"Have you got a part you like, Ruth?" asked Alice, when she had finished looking over her lines.
"Indeed I have, I'm supposed to be Lady Montgomery, and there are two counts in love with me. At least, one is a count and the other pretends to be one. It's quite romantic. What is yours?"
"Mine's jolly. I'm a school girl, always up to some trick or other, and—yes, see here—why in one of my tricks I disclose that the pretended count who's in love with you is only an organ grinder! Oh, that will be fun," and she laughed gleefully.
"Do you like your parts?" asked the manager, coming up.
"Indeed we do!" chorused Ruth and Alice.