Wherry. "It was
the blow you received on the head when you fell from your horse. There
had been a pressure on your brain, from the railroad crash, and the fall
from your horse relieved it, so you came to yourself."
"Oh, I wonder if I could have taken Miss Dixon's ring in my second
personality?" asked Mildred one day, when various happenings were being
explained to her.
"No, you didn't!" exclaimed Alice. "It was found down under the carpet,
back of her bureau. A maid discovered it there when cleaning. And that
snip of a Miss Dixon left without apologizing to you."
"Oh, it doesn't matter, since I am not Estelle Brown, and my doll
doesn't care what they say about her!" laughed Mildred. Miss Dixon and
her friend had left Oak Farm to go back to New York, for their part in
the pictures was finished for the time being.
"And to think that I really became a movie actress, after all!" laughed
Estelle. "I think I shall continue in it, Daddy! It must be fun, though
I don't recollect anything about it."
"No you sha'n't!" laughed Mr. Passamore. "Your mother and I want you at
home for a while."
There is little more to tell.
Mildred Passamore rapidly recovered her health and strength. Her part in
the pictures was finished and though he did not exactly relish the
appearance on the screen of his daughter in battle scenes, the
millionaire, realizing what his refusal would mean to Mr. Pertell, made
no objections. Besides, it was Estelle Brown who was filmed, not Miss
Passamore.
"Well, what is next on the program?" asked Alice of the director one
day, after several other war plays had been made and when they were
about to leave Oak Farm, to go back to New York.
"Oh, I think I'm going to get out a big film entitled 'Life in the
Slums.' You and Ruth will play the star parts."
"No!" laughed Alice. "Not since we became millionaires. You will have to
cast us for rich girls. Mr. Passamore gave us the ten thousand dollars
reward, you know."
"All right!" laughed the director, "then I'll bill you as the rich-poor
girls."
Before going back to San Francisco with Mildred, Mr. Passamore had
insisted that Ruth and Alice take the reward, as it was through their
agency that he received word of his daughter's whereabouts. But Ruth and
Alice insisted on sharing their good fortune with their friends in the
company, so all benefited from it.
The day came for the moving picture players to leave Oak Farm.
"Good-bye, Sandy!" call
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