"Come on now, Paul!" called Russ, indicating to the young actor to show himself so that he would get into the picture.
The other players who had come up on hearing Ruth call out were now ready for their parts in the play. They had kept out of sight of the camera, however, so as not to spoil the picture.
"Very well done!" declared Mr. Pertell, when Ruth had finished her part in the play. "That deer will make a very effective picture, I think."
"It was a dear deer!" punned Alice, and the others laughed.
On the way back to Elk Lodge the manager made an announcement that interested all in the company, the young people especially.
"I have a drama," he said, "that calls for a coasting race in one scene. I wonder if we couldn't do that to-morrow."
"Oh, riding down hill!" cried Alice, with girlish enthusiasm. "What fun! May I steer a bob?"
"Alice, you never could!" cried Ruth.
"Pooh! I've done it lots of times!" her sister answered.
"Yes, when you were a little girl, perhaps, with two sleds held together," laughed Mr. Pertell. "This will be different. Mr. Macksey tells me he has two big, old-fashioned bobsleds in one of the barns. Now I think we can get up two parties and have a big coasting race. The play calls for it, and the young men who steer the bobs are rivals for the hand of the same girl. She has made a condition that whoever gets first to the bottom of the big hill may marry her. So you see the plan of the play."