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"Jennie! Jennie! I've got it!" Ruth cried in a loud whisper.
Jennie's only answer was a prolonged and pronounced snore! She was lying
on her back.
"Jennie Stone!" exclaimed Ruth, shaking the plump girl by the shoulder.
"Wo--wow--ough! Is it fire?" gasped Jennie, finally aroused.
"No, no! I've got it!" repeated Ruth.
"Well--ell--I hope it isn't catching," said the other rather crossly.
"You've spoiled--ow!--my beauty sleep, Ruthie Fielding."
"Listen!" commanded her friend. "I've the greatest idea for a picture. I
know Mr. Hammond will be delighted. I am going to get Wonota on contract
when she breaks with Dakota Joe. I'll make her the central figure of a
big picture. She shall be the leading lady."
"Why, Ruthie Fielding! that's something you have never yet done for me,
and I have been your friend for years and years."
"Never mind. When it seems that the time is ripe to screen a story about
a pretty, plump girl, you shall have an important part in the
production," promised Ruth. "But listen to me--do! I am going to make
Princess Wonota an Indian star--"
"I believe you," drawled the plump girl. "I suppose you might call her a
'shooting star'?"
CHAPTER VI
EVERYBODY AGREES BUT DAKOTA JOE
An inspiration is all right--even when it strikes one in the middle of
the night. So Jennie Stone remarked. But there had to be something
practical behind such a venture as Ruth Fielding had suggested to the
sleepy girl.
Her thought regarding Princess Wonota of the Osage Tribe was partly due
to her wish to help the Indian girl, and partly due to her desire to
furnish Mr. Hammond and the Alectrion Film Corporation with another big
feature picture.
Ruth and Jennie (who became enthusiastic when she was awake in the
morning) chattered about the idea like magpies from breakfast to lunch.
Then Helen drove over from The Outlook, and she had to hear it all
explained while Ruth and Jennie were making ready to go out in the car
with her.
"You must drive us right to Cheslow," Ruth said, "where I can get Mr.
Hammond on the long-distance 'phone. This is important. I feel that I
have a really good idea."
"But what do you suppose that Dakota Joe will say?" drawled Helen. "He
won't love you, I fear."
"Has he got to know?" demanded Jennie. "Don't be a goose, Helen. This is
all going to be done on the q.t."
"Very well," sniffed the other girl. "Guess you'll find it difficult to
take Wonota away from the Wild West Show without Joe's knowing anything
about it."
"Of course!" laughed Ruth. "But until the fatal break occurs we must not
let him suspect anything."
"I see. It is a fell conspiracy," remarked Helen. "Well, come on! The
chariot awaits, my lady. If I am to drive a bunch of conspirators, let's
be at it."
"Helen would hustle one around," complained Jennie, "if she were in the
plot to kill C�sar."
"Your tense is bad, little lady," said Helen. "C�sar, according to the
books, has been dead some years now. Right-o?"
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