is duty was
to turn until told to stop, no matter what happened.

"Let it run!" Alice cried. "I can get out of the way. Don't stop on my
account!"

She had been in motion pictures long enough to know what it meant to
spoil a hundred feet or more of film in a spirited picture,
necessitating a retake. She had seen her danger, and had done her best
to get out of harm's way.

The cat had leaped into some bushes and was out of sight.

Whitlow, his face showing his fear and his inability to act in this
emergency, had instinctively drawn back on the reins. But it was to the
intelligent horse itself, rather than to the rider, that Alice owed her
immunity from harm. For the horse reared, and came down with feet well
to one side of the crouching girl, who had partly risen to her knees.

At the same moment Paul sprang for the steed's bridle and swerved him to
one side. Then, seeing that Alice was practically out of danger, Paul's
rage at the carelessness of Whitlow rose, and he reached up and fairly
dragged that young man out of the saddle.

"You don't know enough to lead a horse to water, let alone ride one in a
movie battle scene!" he cried, as he pushed the player to one side. "Why
don't you look where you're going?"

Whitlow was too shaken and startled to reply.

"Go on. Help her up and keep on with the retreat!" cried the director.
"That's one of the best scenes of the picture. Couldn't have been better
if we had rehearsed it. Never mind the cat, Miss DeVere. Run on. Paul,
you land a couple of blows on Whitlow and then follow Alice. Hold back,
there--you Union men--until we get this bit of by-play."

Paul, nothing loath, gave Whitlow two hard blows, and the latter dared
not return them for fear of spoiling the picture, but he muttered in
rage.

Then Paul, shaking his fist at the Unionists, hurried on after Alice,
and the retreat continued. What had threatened to be a disaster, or at
least a spoiling of the scene, had turned out well. It is often so in
moving pictures.

In the remainder of the scene the girls had little part. They had been
driven from their home, and, presumably, were taken in by friends. The
rest of the scenes showed the Union soldiers making merry in the
Southern town they had captured.

"My! That was a narrow escape you had!" exclaimed Ruth, when she and her
sister were at liberty to return to the farmhouse. "Were you hurt?"

"No; I strained one arm just a little. But it will make a good sce