"
"One of 'em told me," chuckled Amiel Perdue, "that they was hopin' for a
storm, so's to get a real wreck in the picture."
"Hoh!" snorted Cap'n Joab. "Fine time o' year to be lookin' for a
no'theaster on the Cape."
"And do they reckon a craft'll drift right in here if there is a storm
an' wrack herself to please 'em?" piped up Washy Gallup--no relation to
Betty save through interminable cross-currents of Card and Baker blood.
"Sometimes them fillum fellers buy a boat an' wreck it a-purpose. Look
what they did to the old _Morning Star_," Milt said. "I read once of a
comp'ny putting two locomotives on one track an' running 'em full-tilt
together so's to get a picture of the smashup."
"Crazy critters!" muttered Cap'n Joab.
"But wait till ye see the fillum actresses," Milt chuckled. "Tell ye
what, boys, some of 'em 'll make ye open your eyes!"
"Ye better go easy. Milt, 'bout battin' your eyes," advised Amiel
Perdue. "Mandy ain't lost her eyesight none either."
Washy's thin whine broke through the guffaw: "I seen a picture at
Paulmouth once't about a feller and a girl lost in the woods o' Borneo.
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