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

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itting posture and regar

llie, her eyes big and

hat are y

ice quivering with excitement. "I've been

some one would get killed! It's

ollie close at her heels. Reluctantly, Grace and Am

s. Irving on the landing

panted, as they went on down the stairs t

ng in upon them, rumpled, sheepish and out of temp

y disgustedly. "If I'm not the biggest

Will. "He must have passed near enough

ely, while the girls looked from one to the other uncomprehendingly

n peaceably. "It wasn't anybody's

nterrupted impatient

might have some mistaken longings for the code letter he dropped, and might follow us and try to steal it back. So we th

tory away from Will, "except that it was yours truly's turn at

cing apprehensively over her shoulder as though

bitterly. "And if I hadn't happened

ided that the lower hall with company was more to be desi

hree miles around, I suppose it w

our room," cried Amy, b

looked decidedly worried. "The one good thing about

se she could not stop trembling. "I-I wish it were

a dim grey veil was replacing the blackness of night. "Adolph must have

to sleep," put

ollow him?" queri

u might just as well hunt for a needle in a haystack, as look for

idn't have half enough sleep, and now we've been

ng to be gained by standing here. Probably none of us will be able to sleep any more to-night

after them, as they started up the stairs. "If Ado

all its weird suggestions and imaginings, was really over. Beds and dressers were distin

ed and gazing about her disconsolately. "I feel as if I ought to be

ing look different. I wonder," she added, as if the thought had not been in her mind all the time, "how

at that particular minute, and looking in at her smilingly. "I was just going to

fluffings of her blue morning dress, before ten minutes was up, and, with Mrs. I

ded anything during the night, and now his

mperatively. "I want

ancing toward the patient, while Betty lingered a little in the back

ateful for being allowed to live at all-when there are so many beautiful things to look at," this with so direct and ard

ittle and began to adju

a doctor for you tod

up in bed

eeling all right now, and ten to one, he'd make me sick.

while her eyes dwelt with humorous sympathy upon Betty's back. "I'm going down

realized it, she was g

forgot to

regarded her contentedly. Then he g

backs I ever saw, but that's no reason why I should have to look at it

swiftly, half laug

rd him slowly and moving a chair up to the edge of the be

sisted in evading his. "I've never said anything to you, Betty Nelson, th

ughed wh

told me anything that wasn

n finding her hand, and holding it tight. "Just being nea

he noise just a littl

must have wondered w

started to get out of bed and see for myself, only I fo

urst in upon them. "Excuse me, but I had to t

ge of the bed, and look

ty impatiently. "Has an

u know, we've never bothered to lock up our good things, because

wild with impatience. "I know al

be hurried, "we thought of our je

reading the answer

pin and my

llière, and goodness knows how many other thing

py that did it!" cried Betty.