The Girl Scouts of the Round Table

irl of six years old on a shopping expedition with her mother. Tory had arrived in New York with the friends from on board the steamer that

tions it held for both girls. They were to spend four or five days in the ci

ton's estimate of New York, but

have upon Tory's impressionable72 nature, believing that

he snowstorms that had left patches of sno

osphere appeared more glistening than the white face of the snow. The sun struck golden rays ac

aghast. Neither said anything, yet they were grateful when a policeman halted th

e feared. No one who had not known him as a boy would have believed that he too once possessed her ardent interest in life. He

whispered. "I am not sure I like it so well as London and Paris.

hy la

o. So many ideas come to her at once that she pours them out in

rk I do not believe he is so unhapp

ir suitcases in their room kept the t

say they would appear

town, but they reached it in an a

ut left them at the hospital ent

the florist on the corner after they left the subway. Doroth

threshold of the hosp

. "Oh, well, I presume you are not so stupid! For a doctor's daughter, I am singularly ner

girl shook

w. Kara is waiting and m

visitors wandered down a scrupulously sanitary

oice that answe

ed toward them on two crutch

herself in a chair, the old humorous expression a

r. Come here and75 let me embrace you both at once. Dorothy, please see

cushions and placed themselve

s happened since I left," she said. "Do

ll us first? It is so ha

inquire wha

long dark lashes, the lips grown thinner and le

s I hoped when I wrote you. Waiting

do with my hands. I want you to take what you wish for gifts and show the rest to our Girl Scout Council so that I may pass my profici

st Class Scout now, Kara. By the way, we have br

g among the evergreens high up on the wall

from King Arthur. Do you wish to be Sir Boris, whose eyes were an outdoor sign of all the warmth w

yes resting with affection and amusement

Table! For me it is enough to be a Girl Scout. I am sure the idea

flu

ed you, Kara. Miss Mason realized this and we talked things over together, wondering what we had best do. Then one night when I was alone at Miss Frean's I read the story of the Round Table. Later we decided to have a Round Table of our own. Few of our winter meetings c

only I am too much an ou

Beechwood Forest? I gave them to Mr. Hammond for safe keeping, when I believed they had nothing to do with the fact that

vertisement asked that some one from Westhaven communicate with the writer. Mr. Hammond wrote and is to see the person next week. Not one chance in a

eful, dear," Dorothy answered reluctant

he door and before Kara could reply a

n, but a half hour's call was all that