s gasping, as he stood there with quak

fficient reason for the eyes of every one being glued on the remarkable sight taking place before them, for surely such an

seemed to be fairly swarming with moving figures, and such figures! Hugh

heir weapons, and waving plumes dangling from their helmets. Men with bare legs and all manner of weird apparel were attacking the castle, using clubs, rocks, and queer arrangem

lant assailants had apparently thrown a bridge hastily constructed across the moat

amed for thinking they must be dreaming, everything was so unrea

e dead, while passing by had recognized in the make-believe castle such a wonderful copy of something they h

usioned the rest of the group. His quick eye had fo

ere brushing themselves off, while a few others, less fortunate than their companions, were being pulled out of the moat surr

ur, knowing from the manner of the scout mas

passed from his young face. It seemed to him

g the handle of some sort of box just as if he might be an organ grinde

se from Alec and Arthur, though even then Billy a

actors at work!"

gurgled Billy, at the same time beginni

inematoscope or something that way. He's been grinding like mad while all that battle on the walls w

ight. "To think of a company finding out about that queer old imitation castle, and

ly went on to say. "Why, there must be scores of men and women there, all dressed in

ey think they've got something that will go. A thousand people have been used i

ount of satisfaction to realize it. "I've always had a sort of hankering after a chance to learn just how these q

game?" demanded Monkey Stallings. "Why, it begins to look as if they must have engaged the old cas

e many moving figures, apparently resting for the next stage in the exciting drama that was being

d what for, Hugh, when we'

re looking for all sorts of queer settings for their plays. Houses have to be burned down, bridges blown up, rai

plain, unmis

that told me my fine dreams were going to be wrecked, sooner or later. Chances are now this big company has gone and stepped in to buy the old castle for a

your aunt wouldn't think of taking back your camera after you've done so well with it.

a cry of

e camera at this very minute. What's to hinder me snapping off a few pictures

ish not to take the chance,

as he commenced to focus his instrument upon the easily seen bu

ange the exposure so that he might not inadvertently take two pictures on the same portion of film; for Alec was exceedingly systemat

players. "Two of the men appear to have been knocked out in that attack, for there's a chap who looks like he might be a doctor att

teur surgeon. He had really done some fine work along those lines, and

any of those fellows manage to come out of the fight with whole heads or limbs. Some of them were sent crashing

his day I'm going to believe they're as close to the original as can be. There, you see how the fat man beside the operator is waving his arms

well on. He was as excited as Hugh had ever seen him, and t

you'll be making some fearful blunder, and spoiling the best chance you

est incident. Never before had such a glorious opportunity come to any of their kind to actually watch how those ast

commenced their new attack upon the apparently impregnable wal

re had apparently not been a living thing in the neighborhood of the mansion, and now it was the centre of a swarming horde

d spectacle that would later on thrill many a boyish heart in the way of a picture, and also cause a feeli

d. "Fact is, I was going to suggest that same

lden opportunity offered them to get in close touch with these motion-picture actors who, unaware of the fact that they had a sma

own, mopping his forehead with a red bandanna with one hand, and waving the megaphone with the other when not shouting through the sa

the tumult of hideous war, and the actors, laughing and evidently enjoying it to the utmost, beg