The Carter Girls' Week-End Camp

knotted her jaunty scarlet tie and settled her gray felt hat at exa

it seems somehow as though we had been living in this camp for

older than mother," and Helen looked critically a

the kind of woman that men would fight to protect but when all is told that Cousin Lizzie is the kind

o everything there is a season, and a time to every purp

e. She has been splendid and too good to us for anything, but it is a kind of relief for her to be out of the cabin and away before they com

to get off on, and then she could reach the springs in time for an afternoon game. It was a feeling I had that she might

her. "I wish they could have arrived on any other day than Friday. Our week-ends in August

hinks it won't be. He says noise in the open air is

o the camp's use, warned them it was time to start for the station. One more dab of powder on Helen's nose completed h

ressed in honor of his returning parents, was occupying the seat of

. If I had, I betcher I'd a been a pet pig an' some fool woman

ok with laughter as the slab-sided mule, Jose

a whole summer in the open. Douglas' fair skin was reddened from exposure and her hair showed the lack of care that her mother had always exacted. Douglas attached very little importance to her appearance, and

l, anyhow, no matter what we wear," and Helen could not help a feeling of satisfaction over her own very becoming cold-gravy costume with the touch of

base and her chin squarer. Her attractive countenance showed a mixture of poetic feeling and sturdy common sense with a plentiful seasoning of humor and gave promise of her development into a very enchanting woman. All Nan asked of life was plenty of books and time to read them and a cloak of invisibility so that she would not be noticed. She was gradually overcoming the shyness that had always made her think that next to a cloak

ded disgust, but to her secret delight. Already her long legs had shot her saucy head up to within a level of Helen's, which made the younger sister ecstatical

the loss of his first teeth. One permanent tooth had found its way through and, as is the way with the first permanent tooth, seemed very enormous in contrast to the tiny little pearls that had hitherto passed for teeth. His knees were scarred and scratched

exclaimed Lucy, pran

e saw mill over in the

late and all the week-enders get here

bin before the hullabaloo begins, maybe it won't seem so bad to them.

kick," said Nan. Kicking was not a very elegant way to express what no

Catch a nigger! Catch a nigger! I'm a-comin'! I'm a-comin'!'" and the scion of the Carter family whistled

week-end boarding camp time to get their invalid father and dainty mother safel

the pious ejaculatio

h a success that confidence had come to them, but now that their parents were to join them, although they were very happy at the thought of seeing them, the

his wife. He also was laden with bandboxes and bundles, while the grinning porter emerged with some difficulty from under a mass of suitcases, steamer rugs and dress boxes. Lewis Somerville extricated him in

here was still something wrong. His snap and vim were gone. Intelligence shone from his kind blue eyes and his countenance bespoke contentment and happiness, but his old sparkle and alertness were missing. The overworked nerves had lost their elasticity and a certain power that had been a part of Robert Carter was gone forever. It was the power of leading and directing, taking the initiative. There was something very patheti

n agony of love and misery. "He i

helping Lewis Somerville deposit the luggage in Josh's cart. "He is much better, better than I dared dream he would be. You see, he has

is shoulder and do her sobbing there, but he buried his hands firmly in his pockets and made no intimation of his idea. He had constantl

meant disapproval and wondered what she had done to merit it-that is, what new thing. Of course she always knew she had merited his disapproval by her behavior when he had gi

-so-meek," s

he laughed. "Your mother had only part of a day in N

g so she could do it too. When she saw her sister's tear-stained countenance she bitterly regr

rom daughter to daughter, had cried out:

hat youngster. "W

id you have your hair cut so short? My baby, my baby!" and th

is Dr. Wright's shover cept'n when we uns is in the mo

you mean, Bobby?"

ns thinks to do it. That's

look at Bobby a

brance of his own boyhood came back to him

have got!" and he slapped Bobby on the back.

see us," and Bobby led his willing parent behind the station where Helen had gone to shed

s too many folks h

er. "Bobby has an important thing to discuss with me and we s

arms and in spite of Bobby's boasted manhood he was ver

"Bobby will do more for your father than anyone else no

stowed away in the cart and

his paw is come," he said sadly to the sympat

r trust his bones to us than that old Tin Lizzie.

ed Josh. He hadn't lost an old frie

erful things to tell of ships and things and seemed to understand a boy so well. Mr. Somerville was right strict w

t themselves stowed away in the faithful mountain goat. "I can't see why you do

difference," laughed Douglas. "I fancy it

g to college, I see no reason why you

be wiser to wait until she and her mother were alone. Never having economized in her life, Mrs. Carter did not know the meaning of

not dream you were so burned or I should not have selected such pale trimmings. I have a delightful plan! Since you are to come out next winter, I think a fortni

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want to see your father for a few days b

who was crowded in by her, ga

dea of my children making money!" and she gave a silvery laugh. "I am delighted that you have, because now no doubt your coming out wil

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girl come out suitably unl