The Girl Scouts of the Round Table

oria Drew were again in the kitchen adjoinin

s altogether unlike their former one. This

aring semiofficial nursing uniforms, white

red a proper amount of cocoa. Her face was flushed and she was looking so pretty that Tory sat watching her with a smile of satisfaction.

be too tiring for40 Miss Frean," Dorothy remarked, aware that the other gi

sed refl

d sufficiently to give up her trained nurse and submit to our ministrations for the past ten days, she is well enough for our tea party. The Girl Scouts have haunted the place ever since her illness. I suppose in a way it was a relie

ound, the color slowly ebbing from her face an

ended in so happy a

ps, Tory appeared especially attractive. Her reddish gold hair, worn short, c

ether and frowned, not

d I suppose is selfish, but Christmas is nearly here and he cannot let the Christmas season go by without

girl shook

ome of him until he has accomplished at least a portion of what he hoped for. You need not think he does not suffer and long for father and Don and me. But he realized this before he went away and decided at last he

you and your father and Don suffer? You do

n questioned shook h

ld be less miserable! We both realize that is just what Lance will never do. If he has made a mistake, he will feel he should pay for it. But please, Tory, let us talk of something else. I want to forget everything but o

lly wished to be alone for a

nut hair and blue eyes, and a love for athletic sports and the outdoors. Simple and normal in their habits and tastes, it had not always been easy for them to endure the vagaries of Lance, in spite of their devotion to him. The odd member of the family, Lance McClain

ical education he would require. A few weeks before Lance had disappeared from his home in the small town of Westhaven, and so far no word had

rity, was relieved by half a dozen vases and bowls of flowers. The eye fell at once upon a bouquet of red roses and violets

from one t

lly arranged, since Tory herself was responsible for it. The weeks of rest and, had the girl known it, compani

nd yet I recall that at our first meeting I was made to believe by you that you possessed only a few f

n closed

hed this conclusion: You are the most autocratic of the group, even if your manner now and then conceals the fact. Still, you saved my life, didn't you, dear? I consid

shook h

storm alone, when he made his unexpected appearance at your door. It is not like you to seem so unwilling to be grateful to him. I told him that yo

friends and I became a member of your Girl Scout Council. Don't you he

nvalescent. As a matter of fact, Tory had made the discovery that the older woman was not so poor as the simplicity of her living made one believe. She was possessed of only a small income, but had written several books

rst knew you," Tory remarked, following her friend to the win

pid of any one who knows as much as you do of the outdoors to have attempted to reach home in such a stor

e Tory a sudden, unexpected embrace.

glad you think I am prettier. No woman ever grows too

tors; please open the front door, i

nd Sheila Mason, the Scout Captain, were s

am now, Tory," Miss Frean sugges

arily pale cheeks. "I studied the background of my dream on the long

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