The Outdoor Girls at the Hostess House; Or, Doing Their Best for the Soldiers
you've be
ie, turning so the light w
and nose all red for the
ollie. "Probably just
rty. Since then the days had been given largely to the routine work of the Hostess House-afternoon teas, evening coffee served to those who wished it, writing letters for the boys, entertaining other
Betty, breaking in upon her two friends merrily. Then, seeing that she had interr
cried anxiously, "w
bly. "Seems to me that's all I hear from morning to night. 'Oh, Molli
freezing quality in her voice. "I thought I migh
her and, repentant, thrown her ar
rrid, and I know I don't deserve a friend like you. But-
patted her shoul
th a return of her old cheeriness, "Now, prove your repen
e replied, her face clouding again. "O
who had entered the room in time t
and Betty sent Gra
tty hurriedly interposed. "Because, you see," sh
hree at once, and crow
er about grammar. Betty quarreled so seldom with anyb
has 'fessed up," evaded Betty, seem
cried Grace delightedly, while M
e retorted glumly. "Maybe it wouldn't seem
do you know
ee girl
" demanded Betty weakly.
th exaggerated distinctness, "that Roy and I have had a quarr
ied in chorus, "
d to the mirror and be
flung at them o
er dumbly, struggling with a wild desir
ing dazedly when once mor
pose we begin at the beginning and tell our experiences, since we're
r and seated herself expect
s first?" s
yes glittering. "It was all so utterly absurd,
mpatiently, but once more Bet
n-" she
en all of a sudden I happened to think of the b
d and leaned forward e
they br
. He just sort of froze up and wouldn't answer my questions or anything until I got so angry I told him that if
athed the
id he say?"
was. And then he said"-she laughed a little hysterically-"that he just couldn't stand the thought of my see
lly placid Grace seemed hardly able to keep her
Grace dazedly. "Girl
dryly, "that one or all of us a
way that Sergeant Mullins hung around the Hostess House all the time. He ma
grammar suffering from excitement. "Goodness!
maybe," cried Mollie hysterically.
lly, "it's because Sergeant Mul
oes come around a goo
l tried to be nice to him. I think it's horrid," she added, flaring up, "for the boys to
g a tear-this time of merriment-from her
here are dozens of boys who come here to tell us
ust remember," she added with a twinkle, "
ther," added Mollie, with a chuckle. "
the only one left out. Nobody thinks it's w
d, and Grace add
at you didn't meet Will this morning and tell him the awful news,
t anyway," suggest
ty. "What kind-a flowe
explained Mollie patiently,
llie, if there is anything in signs you ought to be a great author
I hope so,"
glancing at the clock. "We'll have to dress pretty soon, to go down to
the boys had met some girls in town they liked better than the
s the boys have been following us around like Mary's
th a chuckle, "the girls I've seen around the town
we still got Sergeant M
added, as they started to
special bayonet drill to-morrow-especially when we've been longi
y carelessly. "But it really doesn