Meanwhile other plays were being considered, and Mr. Pertell repeated his promise, that if "A False Count" was successful he would give Ruth and Alice real "star" parts. They were eager for this, and, now that their father had seen how well they did, he was enthusiastic over them, and very glad to let them go on in the moving picture business. "Who knows," he said, "but what it may mend the broken fortunes of the DeVere family?" One evening Russ came over to the apartment of the girls. "Come on out!" he called, gaily. "Where?" asked Ruth. "To the moving pictures. I've got a surprise for you. They are going to try my new invention for the first time." "May we go, Daddy?" asked Alice, anxiously. "Yes, I guess so," he answered, absentmindedly, hardly looking up from the manuscript of a new play he was studying. So Russ took the girls. "Oh, let's see what is going on!" begged Ruth, as they came to a halt outside a nearby moving picture theater. "No, don't bother now!" urged Russ, gently urging them away from the lithographs and pictures in front of the place. "We're a bit late, and we want to get good seats." He got them inside before they had more than a fleeting glimpse of the advertisements of the films that were to be shown, and soon they were comfortably settled. "I wonder what we'll see?" mused Ruth, looking about the darkened theater. The performance was just about to start. "I wish we could see our play," spoke Alice. "When do you think we can, Russ?" "Oh, soon now," he answered, and the girls thought they heard him laugh. They wondered why. The first film was shown--a western scene, and the girls were not much interested in it, except that Ruth remarked: "The pictures seem much clearer than usual." "That's on account of my invention," said Russ, proudly. "I'm glad you noticed it." Then the girls were more interested. A little later, when the title of the next play was shown, Ruth and Alice could not repress exclamations of pleased surprise. For it was "A False Count!" "Why, Russ Dalwood!" whispered Alice. "Did you know this was here?" "Sure!" he chuckled. "Oh, that's why you hurried us in without giving us a chance to see what the bill was," reproached Ruth. "Yes, I wanted to surprise you." "Well, you did it all right," remarked Alice. And then the girls gave themselves up to watching the moving pictures of themselves on the screen. It was rather an uncanny experience at first, but they soon became used to it, and gave themselves up to the enjoyment of the little play, made doubly delightful from the fact that they had helped to make it. "I'd hardly know myself," whispered Alice. "Nor I," added her sister. From the darkness behind them came a voice saying: "I saw this play this afternoon, Mollie. It's fine. I like the tall actress best," and she referred to Ruth, whose presentment was then on the screen. "She's so romantic, I think." "Listen to that!" Alice said to her sister. "Don't your ears burn?"