The Outdoor Girls in Army Service Doing Their Bit for the Soldier Boys

ame for

a

nd

onderful night in th

going to be

ng out on the veranda, and regarding the enthusiastic group with a smile

gestion, rose lazily to his feet,

d," he replied. "Come along, Betty. It's a cr

s the same who had shared their adventures, during that other eventful sum

assented readily. "Only we've had a lo

Irving in my canoe

"Ours!" were

wraps which were always necessary on the water at ni

ted, Betty?" queried

, and holdi

n the starlight. "Yes, I'm glad that you knew the only right thi

nding her little hand

guess," she evaded, looking up at

ntered very softly. "I want the truth, l

and they walked along

ying her averted profile. "You'r

"I was only going to say, that while I'm glad-oh, ver

leaning over her. "Betty

ther moment, then threw

must know-I don't want you

oringly, his heart bea

ty-w

ers, so that he had no other course but to follow her. His head

ked as Betty, breathless with the run and the beating of her heart,

aughed

oot exactly in the center of the unstable craft. "We'd either have to swim or wa

the latter: She would much rather do things for herself-boys were so clumsy-but they always looked so funny and

e into the still water, guiding the light

here, boys, where do w

o

'" finished Frank, wickedly splashing some dr

a look of cold disdain. "Since we don't happen to be any more than sixty mi

n't open my mouth withou

ace. "Frank, if you don't stop splashing me with

the fire," returned Frank with a grin, while Mol

e canoes abreast. "It's almost impossible to think of there being

. "The Englishman to-day was telling us that nobody in England began to real

hink of it," cried Amy

aloof, had scarcely s

ught to be some other w

e da

ed Frank. "As it is, we've got to fight her as we'd fight a mad dog-wipe

y," put in Allen, with a whimsical smile. "He said he had talked to hundreds of A

put in Mollie, with spirit.

"that if he learns the language he'll be able to

Mollie spitefully. "Almost all the German g

e," remarked Amy anxiously. "Maybe that's why I'm beg

but the girls answ

condescendingly. "It's eating three hearty meals a day, and the sitting still kn

own from the stars to the lazy figure in the white dress

nation. "How about our walking tour-didn't I walk just as far

" cried Frank. "If going dow

ce more in a comfortable position. "Just a little bit of going d

ad caught a sudden flare of light, that had

"Did you see that light-o

"And I don't remember ever seeing si

the old powder mill st

ned to he

vernment has bought that property, and started the old mil

ained her eyes eagerly toward the point. "What do

replied Allen, watchin

hey say

y. "Do you suppose we'd go back without solv

her two canoes, which had fallen somewhat behind, quickening the st

he old mill had been renovated, but that the flame they had seen had come,

the figure of a man bent close to the flickering fire, intent upon deciphering the w

position. Luckily the canoes were screened by heavy, overhanging branc

them, and noiselessly, scarcely darin