The Carter Girls

las. "I believe I heard the R. F. & P. stop

e been so extravagant and selfish for all these years, he'll think we ought to go to the poor house, where we belong," sai

dy and Mrs. Carter as making an excellent nurse. Evidently he was rather astonished that that poor lady could make herself useful, and Helen, detecting his astonishment, was immediately on the defensive;

think I am presumptuous to be making suggestions

Lucy waited to see what Helen would do and did the same thing, but she could not help smiling at the young doctor when he laughed out-right at her

o do would be to rent this house, f

" exclaimed Hel

k it is best," explained Douglas. "We were

o jurisdiction over you

" asked Lucy. "Nan says I can't have a

en power of attorney. I am not in the least an appropriate person to be having it. I only consented to have it wished on me when I saw your father was becoming excited and tired over the unexpected hitch when the

might call on would insist upon our coming to live with them or make us go to some stuffy boarding house or somethin

ome suitable older person and some man whom you can trust, go and camp out on the side of

ncanny!" exclaimed Douglas. "That

ome better and were to ha

you know about keeping bo

have been done by at summer boarding

ich one of you thought up this plan. There must surely have been a current of menta

quick to see a way

y near doing it," declared Lucy. "I would h

flowers high up on a cliff that you must climb to reach, came back to her. She felt that those flowers were in easy reach for her now; that all she had to do to make this rugged young man her friend was to be decently polite. But her pride was still hurt from his former disapproval and while his present attitude was

f it was mine, though," she

omething besides the butterflies they had seemed. Douglas told him of the plans for the camp that the assistant in the office w

ers," he declared. "In fact, I believe you will

this one is sure to draw a crowd: 'A week-end boarding camp, where one can have all of the discomforts of camping witho

how you plan to feed the hungry hordes that are s

naise, but sometimes it goes back on me," said Nan with t

el's food, too,

ayonnaise will be enough

to keep in Dr. Wright's presence. "Old Oscar, our butler, and Susan, the housemaid, have both volunteered to go. I

's food," teased Nan. "Somehow

ady made up bread for breakfast. I am going to buy some of the cutest little bungalow aprons to cook in,

ook, too, and I must have so

r, "and of course we have learned some of the camping stun

can put you on to many t

too glad," responde

sure comfortable nights. Another is, don't depend altogether on camp fires for cooking. Kerosene stoves and fireles

take, although I see no prospect of college yet. Another thing I want to discuss with you, Dr. Wright, is selling

see about that fo

: they felt so grateful to him for his kindness to their parents and to them that their opinion of him was perforce good. Helen still sniffed disdainf