“Got to,” explained Joe. “I think we can make it if we hurry. Some friends of ours are lost in that Mississippi flood, and we’ve got to go and help find and save them if we can. No time to lose!”
“My land sakes! I never heard tell of such a thing!” cried Mrs. Baker. But the boys did not stop to hear her comments. They were on their way to their rooms to pack their grips.
CHAPTER III
MR. PIPER IS APPREHENSIVE
“Well, it didn’t take us long; did it, Blake?”
“No, indeed, Joe. But we certainly have hustled some since we got that long-distance telephone message.”
“We’re used to hustling, though, old man. You wouldn’t get very far with moving pictures unless you did get a move on now and then.”
The two chums were seated in a railway train, on their way to New York to meet Mr. Ringold, and do what they could to rescue the unfortunate members of the moving picture company. They did not know what was before them, but they had stout hearts, and they had made up their minds to brave any danger in order to save their friends.
“Poor Birdie Lee!” murmured Blake. “I can’t help but think of her.”
“Same here,” agreed Joe. “She certainly was a dandy little chum and comrade. Always willing to do anything that was asked, to make a good film.”
“Yes, and she never found fault if someone made a break, and we had to film the scene all over again,” put in Blake. “Do you remember the time she had to fall overboard, out of the boat on the lake?”