e actor would not again be made to pay the five hundred
dollars. The suit against the street car company was also taken out of
court. And Dan Merley and his confederates disappeared for a time. It
seems that Merley went to the woods to hunt as a sort of relief from
having to pose all the while in New York as an injured man. He felt at
home up in that locality, having been there many times before.

"Well," said Mr. Pertell to Mr. DeVere and the girls one day, when he
had called to see them, "I suppose you are ready for more camera work by
this time?"

"What now?" asked Ruth. "Can't you give us something different from what
we have been having?"

"Indeed I can," was his answer. "How would you like to go to Florida?"

"Florida!" the girls cried together. "Oh, how lovely."

"That's answer enough," said the manager. "We leave in a week!"

"I wonder what will happen down there?" asked Alice.

And my readers may learn by perusing the next volume of this series, to
be entitled "The Moving Picture Girls Under the Palms; Or, Lost in the
Wilds of Florida."

"It seems too good to be true," spoke Alice that night, as she and Ruth
were talking over what dresses they would take.

"Doesn't it! Oh, I am just wild to go down South!"

"So am I. I'd like to know what part we're going to."

"Why?"

"Oh, you know those two girls we met in the train. They were going
somewhere near Lake Kissimmee. We might meet them."

"We might," answered Ruth sleepily. "Put out the light, dear, and come
to bed. We will have some busy times, getting ready to go to Florida."

And thus we will take leave of the moving picture girls.

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Transcriber's Notes:

Obvious punctuation errors corrected.

Page 3, "dissappointed" changed to "disappointed". (he never
disappointed)

Page 13, "roles" changed to "roles". (played minor roles)

Page 13, "felt" changed to "left". (left her father's)

Page 22, "went" changed to "want". (want to pay me)

Page 31, "handful" changed to "handful". (handful of snow)

Page 37, "wildy" changed to "wildly". (pawed about wildly)

Page 44, "dollares" changed to "dollars". (hundred dollars means)

Page 45, "seem" changed to "seen". (seen that he)

Page 66, "colonge" changed to "cologne". (spirits of cologne)

Page 101, "Dicken's" changed to "Dickens'". (In Dickens' story)

Page 103, "your" changed to "you". (his coat y