manager, in speaking of the matter later, "I beg that I may be allowed to
get them whole new suits."

"Oh, that is too much," protested the actor.

"Indeed it is not!" declared Mr. Pertell. "I am also going to give each
player a bonus on his or her salary, and to Mr. Bunn, for what he
suffered, a special bonus."

A day or so later the film, in which Mr. Bunn had figured in the
quicksand, was finished, and then came the announcement that they would
proceed on down the river to a new location, so as to get a different
scenic background for the filming of a new drama.

Some of the scenes of this took place on the steamer, and then, when the
captain announced that he would have to tie up for half a day to enable
the "roustabouts" to go ashore and cut wood for the boiler, Mr. Pertell
said:

"Then we'll go ashore, too. I want to get some pictures in which a small
boat will figure. So we'll take the camera along, Russ, and get some of
those views I spoke of."

Some scenes ashore were filmed, and then, carrying out the idea of the
drama, Ruth and Alice, with Paul Ardite, got into a small boat.

They were to go down stream a little way, and there go through certain
"business" called for in the play. Paul was to row.

The boat floated under the arching moss and vines that trailed from the