Ethel Hollister's Second Summer as a Campfire Girl

ll, and her examinations were excellent. She and

eeded replenishing. Ethel bought for herself two new suits and so

very little money now,"

t some by for y

aughed

er, where'

eplied her moth

er!" exclaimed the girl. "I wis

ated Mrs. Hollister wit

is en

pliment?" laughed the girl.

day. They usually started early. On the country roads the apple and peach blossoms were like pictures. To the girl they brought back the previous spring at Aun

people might have taken her for a miser, and gentle folks are seldom misers. I thought that it was necessity that caused her to wear those old-fashioned clothes, so I argued that though Mrs. Hollister imagined her wealthy and that you were in a line to inherit her money there was a great mistake somewhere. But pshaw! as for that every mother is ambitio

feel?" asked Ethel, pushing her

; but Nannie who has lots of horse sense sided with me, and together we were too many for mother. She saw that it was

he grand marriage stunt and she's some

other say to tha

s her self-control sometimes. Poor mother," and Harvey laughed

riendly feeling for Harvey. He asked

he said. "I liked

her this summer, and I'm sure you'll like

s; and she enjoyed talking to Harvey, for now that he understood she could talk to h

y are now normal. Even Grandmother wished me to marry well. I had far rather be an old maid than to be tied to a man for whom I care nothing, and have to sit opposite and pour tea for him three hundred and sixty-five days in a