The Outdoor Girls at the Hostess House; Or, Doing Their Best for the Soldiers
on of something good impending. Crowded as they were in the one big room for Mrs. Sanderson's accommodation, they ha
through the two big east windows and settled on the tip o
a hand across her
he sat up in bed, jerking the covers from her now fully aro
ly. "I never heard you talk so much this early in the morning since th
again, and Grace jumped
garded her out of wide and sleep-brilliant eyes. "I heard a doctor say t
a speculative look: "If you'll wait just about t
With a bound she was out of the
ould think it would be almost worth while having th
g little nose ruefully. "It's easy to talk when it's some one els
n the sun-flooded cot, "only you don't really look as though you were dying of anything, you know-e
e took the place Mollie had vacated. "Don't you believe her, Bet
ughed de
wist to the corner of her mouth. "Never mind, Moll
er, and even Gr
f nothing at all, "that we have a whole holida
Amy eagerly. "I thought maybe we
eyes were focused upo
they queri
ays was when about to suggest something for another's comf
was thinking. The dear old lady seemed so much better yesterday I thought
he latter heartily, "I'd lov
led. "Why shouldn't she come-that i
e told me the other day that she 'hated them gasoline wagons worse than poison,'-that the only reason she rode in ours was because she was unc
he flung back the covers
" she said. "Maybe she's changed her mind by
tfully, as they dressed hastily. "She must be pretty old, and yet she says th
and very judicially. "You know working on a farm in the hot sun the way she
" sighed Amy for-the girls did not know whether it was the
ly pulled on a shoe as if it were in some mysterious way responsible for the unsati
regarding her own pretty reflection in the mirror. "But if you mean
thinking of Diana's beauty. I was merely thi
ning upon her friend with a melodramatic frown. "Do y
gly. "That shows a guilty conscie
kly. "May I ask," she added very
ed Mollie patiently, "tha
her in horror. "And you just t
ration, then turned away in disgust. "There's
ollie dear,"
we were hunting two men-Mrs. Sanderson's Willie and the motorcyclist who
chasing an asbestos
danced. "After this, you will kindly answer when y
s Nelson, that although I am extremely fond of you-mistaken as
stop maundering," threatened Mollie. "A girl has
cently, and Betty and Amy had to form
tle Captain, her eyes twinkling. "Not till after breakfas
derers terribly," added Amy
let her off until after breakfast,
they queried
ronger then