"Yes, we're with the 'movies,'" admitted Alice.
"Going to make all your pictures around here?"
"Not all. We are booked to go into the interior, I believe. Pleasant prospect; isn't it?" she asked with a frank laugh.
"Well, no, I wouldn't say it was," answered the clerk, and he spoke as though Alice had meant to be serious. "In fact, if I were you I wouldn't try to go into the interior around here."
"Why not?" asked Ruth.
"Because it was from here the two girls started out into the wilds to gather rare flowers, and they have not since been heard from!"
CHAPTER XIII
OUT IN THE BOAT
Ruth and Alice looked at each other. It seemed almost impossible that there could be this confirmation of the news item they had read, and so soon after arriving at the hotel. Yet such was the fact.