Fortunately, Alice had been overcome when within a few feet of the clear atmosphere, and it was the work of but an instant for Paul to carry her outside, where she could breathe pure air. "The poor dear!" cried Mrs. Maguire. "Here, give her this ammonia and water." "Don't come too close to her, Mrs. Maguire!" warned the director. "Your black make-up will come off on her face, and it will show in the film." The director had to think of all those things, though it might seem a bit heartless. "I'll be careful," promised the motherly old woman. "I'll be careful." Alice sipped the aromatic spirits of ammonia, and felt better. "Did I faint?" she asked. "How silly of me!" "Are you all right?" asked Ruth, still in her place by the side of the soldier, who was supposed to be unconscious. "Yes, Ruth dear. I'm all right now. Oh, and did I leave you to carry him all alone? I'm so sorry!" "It was all right. I dragged him." "Yes, the scene is all right," said Mr. Pertell. "Now, Alice, I don't want to be heartless, but will you be ready to go on in this, or shall we abandon it and make a retake?" "Oh, I'll go on. Just a moment, and I'll be all right." After a minute or two the plucky girl recovered from the effects of the smoke, and, though she was weak and wan, managed to go through her part. She and Ruth carried their "cousin" out of the burning barn which was then allowed to fall to ruins. Or rather, the extra part, built on for the purpose, was, Pop Snook's smoke bombs effectually concealing from the audience the fact that the real barn was not in the least harmed. "Well, I'm glad that's over," said Alice with a sigh, as a little later she washed off her make-up and donned her ordinary clothes. "Do you feel bad?" her sister asked. "Yes, sort of choked." "Then let's take a walk up on the hill where there is always a breeze." On the grassy eminence with the fresh breezes blowing about them, Alice soon felt much better. But Mr. Pertell called off some of the scenes set down for next day, so that she might have a rest. "We'll soon be ready for the big hospital scene, Ruth, and also for the one where you try to get away with the papers, Alice," said Mr. Pertell to the two girls one day. "And, in order that everything may run smoothly I've made a little change in the scenario. I'm going to have a preliminary hospital scene. In that you will be a sort of orderly, or assistant nurse, Ruth. And there comes an emergency in which you do so well that you are sent for to be a nurse in one of the big hospitals maintained near the front. That will make the story more logical.