"You don't mean he was one of the men who tried to get Russ's patent; do you?"
"No. I can't, for the life of me, though, think where I have seen that man before, but I'm sure I have. I thought you might remember."
Alice tried to recall the face, but could not.
"I don't believe I ever saw him before," she said, shaking her head. "He might be one of the many actors we have met on our travels, or in going around with daddy."
"No, I'm sure he never was an actor," spoke Ruth. "Never mind, perhaps it will come to me later."
And all the remainder of the day she tried in vain to recall where she had seen that face before.
Mr. Macksey seemed a trifle disturbed when told of the man being on the hill with a gun.
"One of those pesky hunters!" he exclaimed. "I've got notices posted all over the property of Elk Lodge, but they don't seem to do any good. I guess I'll have to get after those fellows and give 'em a piece of my mind. I'd like to find out where they are stopping."
The next few days were busy ones for the picture actors, and a number of dramas were filmed. In one, two snow forts were built, and the company indulged in a snowball battle before the camera.
"And now for something new," said Mr. Pertell one day, as he called the company together in the big living room of the lodge, and pointed to something piled in one corner. "You'll have to have a few days' practice, I think, so I give you fair notice."