now. You are entirely too kind."

"Perhaps you can pay me more easily than you think," said Ruth, bashfully,
but with dancing eyes.

"How? Tell me at once," said Miss Gray.

"I'm just _mad_ to try writing a scenario for a moving picture," confessed
Ruth. "But I don't know how to go about getting it read."

Miss Gray smiled, but made no comment upon Ruth's desire. She merely said,
pleasantly:

"If you write your scenario, my dear, I will get our manager to read it."

"That awful Mr. Grimes?" cried Ruth. "Oh! I shouldn't want _him_ to read
it."

Hazel Gray laughed heartily at that. "Don't judge, the taste of a baked
porcupine by his quills," she said. "Grimes is a very rough and unpleasant
man; but he gets there. He is one of the most successful directors Mr.
Hammond has working for him."

"You have mentioned Mr. Hammond before?" said Ruth, questioningly.

"He is the man I will show your scenario to." Then she added: "If I am
still working for him. Mr. Hammond is a very nice man; but Grimes does not
like me," and again the girl sighed, and a cloud came over her pretty
face.