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Russ took along a special moving picture camera made for fast work, and one with a lens that admitted of a long focus. "For Merley may not come very near the small cabin," the young moving picture operator said. "I may have to get him a long way off. But I don't want to miss him."
Between them, Ruth and Alice told about Dan Merley's claim, and the injustice of it. Russ was duly sympathetic. "If I were your father I would pay no attention to his demand," the young moving picture operator said. "But suppose he sues, as he threatened?" asked Ruth. "Let him, and fight the case in court when it comes up. Merley may be only 'bluffing', to use a common expression."
"We'll slip over to the other cabin, and see if we can get help. These men are evidently up here on a hunting trip, and they may have a man cook, or some sort of help in the cabin. Whoever it is can't refuse to at least set us on the right road. We don't need to mention that Mr. Merley is going to sue our father." "I should say not," agreed Ruth. "Oh, that horrid man!
In a few moments he resumed: "Did you ever hear me speak of a Dan Merley?" "You mean that man who came to see you when we lived in the other apartment the nicer one?" asked Ruth, for the Fenmore was not one of the high-class residences of New York. The DeVeres had not been able to afford a better home in the time of their poverty.
Besides, those men might come back unexpectedly, and I wouldn't have Merley and his two companions find us in their cabin for anything!" "Neither would I. That Merley would be mean enough," Alice declared, "to charge us rent, and add that to the five hundred dollars he is going to make daddy pay." "Oh, Alice! What queer ideas you have. But, dear, we mustn't linger here.
Merley walked without the suspicion of a limp, and a little later he took a shovel, and began clearing snow away from some of the walks. "Good!" cried Russ. "Better and better! If he can do such strenuous work as that he isn't hurt. This cooks your goose, Dan Merley!" He continued to grind away, getting the proof of the fellow's criminality on the sensitive film.
There was a little crowd about the fallen man, and at the sight of the fellow's face Alice suddenly cried: "Look! That is Dan Merley!" Alice's announcement caused her sister to start in surprise. Ruth looked as if she could not understand, and Alice repeated: "See, the man who fell is Dan Merley the one who says daddy owes him five hundred dollars."
Say dis is great!" "I think we had better be going, Alice, dear," said Ruth. "Daddy wouldn't like us to be in this crowd." "Oh, I want to stay and see what happens. Besides, it might be important," Alice objected. "This is Dan Merley, who might make trouble for papa. We ought to see what happens to him. I think that whole accident was queer.
The girls told him, and when he heard that Merley was in the neighborhood, and apparently uninjured, Russ said: "I always thought that fellow was a faker. I'd like to know what his game was." "Do you think it is a game?" asked Alice. "Yes, and I think it's more of a game than the game they are after up here. I think they're hatching some plot."
"I'll tell you what it's about," said Dan Merley, confidentially. "It's about money. I want five hundred dollars from your father, and I want it quick with interest, too. Don't forget that." "My father paid you that money!" Ruth declared, with boldness. "He did not!" denied the unpleasant visitor. "He owes it to me yet, and I want it. And, what's more I'm going to have it!"
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