A Campfire Girl's First Council Fire / The Camp Fire Girls In the Woods

uch to be anxious to say anything. Jack, his little legs flying, covered ground at an astonishing pace. Zara had a

mean he never so well, could possibly enable them to escape from angry Farmer Weeks, who, for an old man, seemed to be keeping up astonishingly well in the race. But soon the noises behin

k, happily. "It's lots of fun-much bette

essie?" panted Zara. "We're ahead of

hadn't uncovered the entrance? And see, it's so wild that we'd have to stick to the path, an

ck. "They're gett

wing them, and the noise was getting louder. Bessie hesitated no lo

ave. They'll think these are just bushes growing here. Isn't it a bully place? I've playe

g like a leaf. "When we get back with the girls, we'll think this

en if they don't catch us now?" asked Zara

"I'll bet Jack's thought ab

k they've gone so far that a girl couldn't ever have done it. And then they'll decide they've missed h

quiet, now, both of you! Don't even breat

He never looked at the cave, or in their direction, but the next man, one employed about the hotel, seemed to have his eyes fixed directly on the branches. Bessie thought he looked suspicious. She was sure that he had spied the device, and was about to call to Farmer Weeks. But, when he was still a few feet off, he tri

t their eyes on the ground, looking out for it, since they had no desire to share

said Jack. "Three of them,

relieved, laughed as sh

n you are," she

hurting his feelings. "And I've rescued you, haven't I? Did you ever read about the Knights of the Round Table, and how

ooked

Jack, looking disappointed. But then he t

Zara, who lived centuries ago. And whenever they saw a lady who ne

He had liked Bessie from the

out this adventure, unless your father asks you. You mustn't say anything that isn't true, but only answer questions. Don't of

s the greatest man that ever lived-greater than George Washington.

re friends, Jack. Then he'd thin

believe he would! My pop would never lock a girl up in a r

oming back," said Bessie, final

do when it's a holiday, like this. They know I know my way aro

ou be afrai

a gun, and I'd shoot them

weren't trying

t I? Everyone does

ings aren't just that way. Books are to read, to learn things, a

lion coming through that

e you up first

ever did anything like that! Say, it is taking them a

hey arou

we have to send out and find them, so's they don't have to

y, and presently Zara ke

he said. "Listen! You can h

quiet fo

much further off than that when they were coming after us. I

em. Now it's in front of them. And they were going up hill, too, so there may have been an

suppose girls knew things like that. Say, when I get old enough I'm going to be a Boy

o be Camp Fire Girls, and we'l

Girls? Are they li

ut them, I'll come back and tell you all about it. I know

f the returning hunters were very plain. They cou

f?" he was asking one of his companions. "How d

ck for you-and I can't say I'm sorry, either. Way you've been goin' on here makes

by the taunt. "I make anyone that gits my pay or my vittles work-an' why sh

aughing. "Better be careful how you start callin' us names, I can tell you. I

ut your

elegant and refined like. Makes me sorry I never

mumbled his words, and didn't get them out properly. Zara was smiling, her eyes shining

ith that passel of gals that Paw Hoover sold his garden truck to yesterday. I heard 'em laughin' and chat

d the other man, contemptuously. "Yo

ne, an' I'll show 'em whether they can run off that way with a man's property. Guess e

us for runnin' off on this wild

a-goin' to give none of my good money that I worked for to any low-dow

e fugitives in the cave heard no more talk from him, although for some time after that the

they were quite sure that they were safe

t up the way they went?" Bessie as

way I'll walk a way with you, and show you where you can strike off and c

hat, you'll help us ever so much, and

vously. "I want to get away as soon

eks catch us as you are. If he found me he'd take me back

arly in the woods, you know. They're mighty thick when you get further up the mount

almost every stick and stone in the path. And presently they came to a blaze

ly. "Here's where we leave this trail. Be careful no

rpet of dead leaves deadened their footsteps. Although the sun was still high, the trees w

lost in these

re on another trail. Ja

w," he said. "Keep to the t

of the knights you ever read about, and if you keep on like this you'

nk you ever so mu

, and stood there until

ame out near the main road, a

ghtened me, Bessie. They were so dark and gloomy. And it's so

sly as she strove to get her b

nd Farmer Weeks got hold of you, Zara. We'll have to go up the road. You see, it brought us quite a little

He was awful. He drove up just as I got down to the road, and as soon as I saw him I sta

d he say

u were, but I wouldn't say a thing. I wouldn't even answer him when he asked me if I'd seen you. A

free of him

s it, B

Girls? He knows about them! If we go right back to them now, we may be walking

one another i