The Girl Scouts' Good Turn

ewhere there

e the rai

kipped from place to place, adding the finishing tou

their old places-all except the seniors of the previous year, who had graduated-and now the sophomores were pre

e winter scene from fairyland. Cedar branches, decked with flakes of artificial snow, and great white snowbanks, completely hid the walls from view. Spread over the floor, except for

as if they feared that by some rude noise t

lue and silver of the scene. But, standing gracefully erect, with one satin-slippered foot extended in front of the other, and her head thrown back as she contemplated t

t of the effect," she said, putting her

y. "Isn't the room wonderful? I think it's the

ertainly can't help

ith the infinite wisdom of the soph

nk Frances Wright and Ethel Todd were nothing short of goddesses? I wonder whether these fre

over to give them the final directions. When she turned around again, Lily had vanished; but near her stood Ruth Henry, h

ed, the girls were good friends now, in spite of all that had

e it, Ruth. Yours

near-by, and beckoned M

he remarked. "We might as well re

from one place to another over the room, reviewing the effect, and her mind was drifting from what Rut

ice to an intimate tone. "Have you

presi

she is still president; but wh

arjorie, absently. "I neve

ening, you know. I think we ought to talk it over

lancing nervously towards the door. "Wh

replied Ruth, with annoyance.

t content herself to

Doris," she said, rising. "I wish it weren't ag

leasant voice, and the girls looked up to see

ete-a-tete, but do you know who ha

e. "But you needn't wor

rtainly am crazy to get acquainted with the freshmen. I know most of them by s

pick out the Girl Sc

Ruth," protested Marjorie

e girls hastened over to welcome them and to make them feel at home. They walked in

end. But perhaps some of the freshmen might resent this, and interpret her attitude as condescending. So she tried t

ting Lieutenant of the troop at camp, and who still held that office. It was Florence that introduced herself to Marjorie. Neither bol

the least to use the older girl's first name; "Edith told me all about

whom she admired so much had seen fit to mention her name at h

room-mate, Mildred Cavin"-she nodded toward an attractive girl a few

back to the time when she was in Florence's place: a freshman eager to make good among the upper cla

ou will work hard enough. You must receive a mark of over eighty per cent on your fir

ly hard to get on the hockey team?

ed them. Evelyn Hopkins, Ruth Henry's room-mate, who had missed making both the sorority

if you're not in right with Miss Phillips, the Gym teacher w

statement; she so much desired that her classmate

laughed derisively. "Scouts don't mean much in my yo

y stand for; she merely arched her brows and looked away indifferently. To her r

irely broken up, and everyone was acquainted. It was half-past ni

ocure the ice-cream for their guests, and while they we

far that has pep enough to organize a secret class meeting, or put up any kind of a fight against us sophomor

colates made that Edith Evans' sister makes

ano, you'd be disgusted with freshmen, too. She sort of keeps her mouth open, as if she weren't quite all

round the screen and looking towards th

the scar

s her

ed Ruth. Then, "But why

orry for anybody that is lonely. I th

Ruth. A sarcastic little gleam came into her eyes. "How about Fr

she had admitted the theft to Miss Phillips when she was later accused, she made no attempt at apology or explanation. The girl's ignorance, her wildness, her lack of advantages, had touched the pity of Marjorie and Frances, and some of the other softer-hearted Scouts; accordingly, the troop had voted to send Frieda to public

one than she really entertained. "Mrs. Brubaker wrote to Miss Phillips th

ove the heads of the crowd, made her way to the distant corner indicated by Ruth. She found the f

rie pleasantly, "may I

Marjorie's. She seemed pale and thin, and her eyes appeared unusu

uttered, rising an

inued the older girl. "At leas

he flushed painfully at the re

id Marjorie hastily, trying to cover her embarras

es

e, wondering why the girl, whoever she was,

the freshman; "but she do

d toward her as it might to a lost child. She chatted pleasantly all through the intermission;

res were getting ready for bed, Marjorie, who stil

, we can do one right here for the new girls, to keep

greed Lily, as sh

a different nature: how she might best succe

reason why I should fail. And I mean to do it, if I never