"Are you getting this, Russ?" asked Mr. Pertell of the young camera expert. "Every move!" was the enthusiastic answer. "It's too good a chance to miss, and I guess there is really no danger." He continued to grind away at the camera while the girls, now in orderly array, marched to the fire escapes and so down and out of the building. Ruth, Alice and the two other actresses went with them. And not until the last girl had left the room did the forewoman make a move toward the escape. "You gentlemen will please leave now," she said. "After you," returned Mr. Pertell, with a look of admiration in his eyes. "No," she said, firmly. "The rules of the fire drill require that I leave the room last. You will please go first." "But, my dear young lady!" exclaimed the manager, "this is not a drill--it is a real fire!" "I know it," she said, quietly. "But that makes no difference. I must leave last. You will kindly go ahead." "I guess we'll have to, Russ," remarked the manager. "But I don't like it." "Those are the rules," insisted the forewoman, and she would not go out on the fire escape until Russ, Paul and Mr. Pertell had preceded her. By this time the street below was filled with fire apparatus, puffing, clanging and whistling. And not until the girls were down and out of the building did they realize what a big fire it was. For the entire structure was now ablaze. Fortunately the same efficient fire drill instituted by the forewoman on the floor where Ruth and Alice had been prevailed in other parts of the building, and not a life was lost, though there were many narrow escapes. And you may well believe that Russ did not miss this opportunity to get moving pictures. Of course the plot of the play had been spoiled by the fire, but a far better drama than the one originally planned was afterward made of it. As the building continued to burn Russ found that he was not going to have film enough. He sent Paul for a new supply and also to telephone for another operator from the Comet studio, so that pictures of the big fire from various viewpoints might be secured. And it was a big fire--one of the largest in New York in many years, but aside from a few persons who received minor injuries there was none seriously hurt. The Comet concern scored heavily in making films of the blaze. "Well, that was one exciting day, yesterday," remarked Russ the next morning at the studio. "I never worked so hard, not even when we were lost in Florida." "I had a premonition something would happen," declared Mr. Sneed, as he was making up for his part in a play. "When I got up yesterday morning I stepped on my collar button, and that's always a sure sign something will happen." "It's sometimes a sign you'll be late for rehearsal if you don't find the collar button," laughed Paul.