"We won't!" promised Alice. "I was really a bit frightened this time."
"A bit frightened!" cried Ruth. "I was awfully scared! I could see us both frozen stiff under the snow, and the dogs nosing us out as they do travelers in the Alps."
"I'm glad that didn't happen," laughed Russ. "For I suppose if it had Mr. Pertell would have insisted on having a moving picture of it, and I would have been too prostrated with grief to be able to work the camera."
"Well, we're all right now," declared Alice. "And such an appetite as I have!"
"Did you tell your father about Dan Merley?" asked Russ.
"Oh, no!" exclaimed Ruth. "Listen Daddy, whom do you think we saw?"
"Not Dan Merley up here?" cried the actor.
"Yes, he was with two other men—those who were with him when he was hurt by the street car."
"Dan Merley up here?" mused Mr. DeVere. "I wonder what he can want? Can he be going to make trouble for me?"
"We won't let him, Daddy!" cried Alice. "If he walks over here to ask for that five hundred dollars again, I'll——"