"A close call!" said Russ, and his voice was unsteady as he stepped away from the camera. Ruth and Alice were pale, and Paul, too, had lost some of his color. But it was Alice who first relieved the strain of the situation. "A miss is as good as a mile," she said, and tried to laugh, but it was not easy. "There must be some defect in that brake connection," the chauffeur said, as he got out to look at it. "Well, as long as we're all right, the film will be so much the better," observed Paul, as he alighted from the car. "It will look realistic enough; won't it, Russ?" "Indeed it will. I thought sure you were goners; but I kept on grinding away. It will be realistic enough for even Mr. Pertell, I think," and he glanced at the manager. "I'm awfully sorry this occurred," declared the latter. "I assure you ladies that I never would willingly have let you run such a risk." "Oh, we know that," responded Ruth, quickly. "It was no one's fault. Only I'm glad daddy wasn't here to see us," she added in a low voice to her sister. "So am I!" was the reply. "Now then, you had better get back to New York," went on Mr. Pertell. "This ends the scenes in Jersey, and your nerves must be pretty well shattered," he said, looking at the two girls. "Oh, I want to stay and watch the other auto go to smash," Alice cried. "That will be something worth seeing, especially as no one will be hurt, except the dummies." "I'll stay, too," said Ruth. "It will be novel to see ourselves as stuffed figures." Preparations were now made for having the second auto plunge over the cliff. This car was set in the exact position the other had occupied when brought to a stop. The dummy figures were put in, veils effectually concealing the faces. Then the motor was started. Meanwhile Russ had taken his camera to the foot of the cliff where he could get a view of the car plunging over, and smashing. "All ready!" came the signal. By means of long wires, which would not show in the finished picture, the gears were thrown in, and the brakes released. "There she goes!" cried Russ. The car containing the dummies started off at a fast rate. It crashed through the fence, just as the other car might have done, and the next instant was hurtling through the air. It turned partly over, one of the dummy figures--that of Ruth--toppled out--and a moment later, with a crash that could be heard a long distance, the auto was crumpled into a shapeless mass at the foot of the cliff. Russ got every detail of this, and when the wrecked auto caught fire from the burst gasoline tank it added to the effectiveness of the scene, though that feature had not been counted on. Then several men came rushing up. They had been stationed in readiness for just that purpose, and they picked up the figures of the dummies. That ended the scene, for the next act took place in a hospital, whither Ruth, Alice and Paul were supposed to be carried. That would be a studio scene, and filmed later.