Category: Children & Young Adult Reading

Ruth Fielding at Golden Pass

Main Street was jammed with an unprecedented crowd of people and traffic. Automobiles discharged a continual stream of humanity before the doors of the new motion picture house in Cheslow.

Chapters

1. CHAPTER I

Main Street was jammed with an unprecedented crowd of people and traffic. Automobiles discharged a continual stream of humanity before the doors of the new motion picture house...

2. CHAPTER II

Confusion became panic. Voices already raised in protest or entreaty became shrill or hoarse with fear. Mothers called to their children, children cried for their mothers. The s...

3. CHAPTER III

Ruth drew in great lungfuls of the fresh air. Her next thought was for Aunt Alvirah and her school friends. She gave Tom’s arm a tug and started around toward the front of the t...

4. CHAPTER IV

For it was Mr. Hammond who had accepted Ruth’s early scenario which she had called “The Heart of a School Girl” and filmed it with the aid of the two hundred odd girls at Briarw...

5. CHAPTER V

Layton Boardman was fine looking, far better looking than he appeared on the screen. He had one of those faces that appeal to the imagination, usually immobile and inscrutable,...

6. CHAPTER VI

Helen explained that the other girls had gone motoring with their friends of the evening before and had sent word to Ruth that they would probably stop in at the Red Mill later...

7. CHAPTER VII

The days that followed were busy and pleasant ones for Ruth. Even when her doubt concerning the wisdom of engaging Layton Boardman and thus inviting Sol Bloomberg’s enmity would...

8. CHAPTER VIII

“Tom, please don’t let’s discuss it any more. Maybe I did do wrong--although I don’t think so. Only time will prove that. And in the meantime, we’re wasting time sitting here an...

9. CHAPTER IX

The day dawned gloriously bright, a sparkling day of sunshine and fresh sweet winds and the scent of adventure in the air. It was _the_ day on which the start for Montana was to...

10. CHAPTER X

The rest of the company were waiting for Ruth and the Camerons and the two stars, in accordance with the agreement. Ruth received them in her sitting room that evening, gave to...

11. CHAPTER XI

Ruth was really more worried than she would admit and when Viola appeared at the last minute, looking a bit flurried and out of breath but as cheerful as usual, Ruth drew a long...

12. CHAPTER XII

Ruth was living through a nightmare. She tried to move, but found that her legs would not respond to her command. What use to run, anyway, when there was no possible hope of esc...

13. CHAPTER XIII

The two girls, Helen and Ruth, were up in Ruth’s room which various soft and colorful articles from their trunks had made livable, talking over plans for the picture and Ruth’s...

14. CHAPTER XIV

Besides the injury to his ankle, which was comparatively light, being only a painful sprain, Layton Boardman had hurt his back in his fall. This, together with painful bruises a...

15. CHAPTER XV

Together, Ruth and Tom rushed over to the prone figure on the ground. They seemed to be the only ones of all that company to see the accident to Helen.

16. CHAPTER XVI

The thought roused the girl to a sort of wild disbelief. It wasn’t so. It couldn’t be so! Why, it would mean the ruin not only of this picture, but perhaps of The Fielding Film...

17. CHAPTER XVII

She, act! A leading part! Such a notion had never entered her mind until Mr. Hammond abruptly put it there. It was flattering, this proposal of his, but the thing was utterly im...

18. CHAPTER XVIII

On the morrow she was to face the camera in an all-important part--she, who had directed so many others just how to do it! They were to be test films only, to determine whether...

19. CHAPTER XIX

Ruth carried out her determination to send for Edith Lang, the crippled actress, immediately. She knew the reputation the screen star had enjoyed before her accident, and she fe...

20. CHAPTER XX

Lightning thoughts raced through Tom’s head. This was not his first experience with bears, and he felt that this one might not attack him unless he himself showed fight. Even in...

21. CHAPTER XXI

Ruth had been forced to pay a ridiculously high sum for these cabins. But Tom and she figured that to erect others, no matter how flimsily built, would cost even more. Fortunate...

22. CHAPTER XXII

It was an extreme test of courage to do what Ruth Fielding did then. To let oneself go blindly, trusting to another’s strength and skill to save one from a terrible death, takes...

23. CHAPTER XXIII

Tom had accompanied Shepley, to help him direct the scene of the fight with the bandits. Tom’s advice on fighting tactics was always worth listening to and Shepley was glad of a...

24. CHAPTER XXIV

Meanwhile, those outside the cave had been witnesses to an unbelievable horror. There was the muttering, rending sound of the avalanche, earth torn from the breast of the mounta...

25. CHAPTER XXV

In the flickering light of more matches she stared out from her enforced retirement upon the queerest tableau she had ever seen. Curiously enough, she was not frightened. It all...