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by Laura Lee Hope

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Title: The Moving Picture Girls Under the Palms
Or Lost in the Wilds of Florida

Author: Laura Lee Hope

Release Date: November 20, 2005 [EBook #17118]

Language: English

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The
Moving Picture Girls
Under the Palms

OR

Lost in the Wilds of Florida

BY

LAURA LEE HOPE

AUTHOR OF "THE MOVING PICTURE GIRLS," "THE MOVING PICTURE
GIRLS AT OAK FARM," "THE BOBBSEY TWINS SERIES,"
"THE OUTDOOR GIRLS SERIES," ETC.

_ILLUSTRATED_

THE WORLD SYNDICATE PUBLISHING CO.
CLEVELAND NEW YORK

Made in U.S.A.

Copyright, 1914, by
GROSSET & DUNLAP

PRESS OF
THE COMMERCIAL BOOKBINDING CO.
CLEVELAND

CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE

I Overboard 1

II To the Rescue 11

III A Disquieting Item 18

IV Fire on Board 28

V Disabled 37

VI By Wireless 46

VII In Port 54

VIII St. Augustine 63

IX In the Dungeon 70

X The Motor Races 80

XI On to Lake Kissimmee 88

XII A Warning 96

XIII Out in the Boat 104

XIV Under the Palms 113

XV In Peril 119

XVI A Strange Attack 129

XVII Out of a Tree 139

XVIII The Animated Logs 147

XIX Into the Wilds 157

XX Lost 164

XXI The Long Night 172

XXII Ashore 180

XXIII The Palm Hut 186

XXIV The Lost Are Found 195

XXV Out of the Wilds 203

CHAPTER I

OVERBOARD

"All ready now! In position, everyone!"

Half a score of actors and actresses moved quickly to their appointed
places, while overhead, and at the sides of them hissed powerful electric
lights, and in front of them sto