The Camp Fire Girls Go Motoring; Or, Along the Road That Leads the Way

e time, with all parts nicely balanced. But as it is, I am afraid that I have been trying to tell it all at once and am getting it rather one-sided. So far I have told only w

uck the old woman and where the Striped Beetle vanished from sight. As I said before, I am going to tell the story

all over on them and they had a narrow squeeze to get through between it and the curb. Some small boys on the sidewalk shouted at the driver of the wagon and he shouted back; a street car trying to make headway on a track from which a sand wagon refused to move itself raised an ear-splitting racket with its alarm bell;

s on T-- Street," said Gladys, when we did not come immed

assed and we

nished off the face of the earth. Inquiry at frequent points brought out the fact that the Glow-worm had knocked down an old woman (that is the way such things are exaggerated) and had gone on again. Their asking which way it had gone started an argument which ended in a fist fight, for the two small boys they asked each maintained stoutly that it

red. "Four girls in tan suits a

nder growing momentarily. They could not understand why Nyoda had ceased to follow them and was taking a route which

ort of back streets. She probably turned off when the jam occurred on T-- Street and thought we

knew his neighborhood and turned into an alley just as Mr. Bob nearly had him. Mr. Bob, with Hinpoha hard after him, also turned into the alley. The back door of an empty store offered the fugitive a safe refuge and he darted inside. So did Mr. Bob, growling ferociously, and so did Hinpoha, panting for breath and holding her hand to her side. From the back room of the store the dogs passed to the front and Mr. Bob caught the yellow dog in a tight corner behind a counter. For all he had run in such a cowardly fashion the yellow dog was a good fighter and the battle which occurred when the two clinche

action from the encounter, came over to Hinpoha and subsided at her feet. With a look of wonder Hinpoha turned to the girl crouching on the floor. She had moved into the light from a window and Hinpoha could see that fear was written a

?" asked Hinpoha, w

child holds on to its mother, in spite of the fact that she was evide

ut it," she

nd wiped her eyes. "I'm-I'm hidi

m what?" as

said I stole something and I didn't, and he says

u arrested if you didn't st

ombination of the safe. A few days ago Mr. Sawyer, that's one of the men I work for, asked me to get certain papers out of the safe, and when I went there I couldn't find them. He made an awful fuss and said I had taken them. They were bonds, if you know what they are. He said he would have me arrested. I believe his son took them because

ted Hinpoha was ready to weep in sympathy. "You poor thing!" she

ow anybody up here," she said. "I've

lways one court of last

he said. "I know somebody w

ith her veil tied down over her face, through which she peered nervously to the right and left as the car moved on through the streets. Gladys's brow was drawn up into a frown of perplexity as corner after corner was turned and they st

e and we are the hounds. She's probably doing it on purpose to see how well we can tra

" said Gladys,

said. "This way leads to the southern route and not the northern, and they'll have the pleasure of cr

The southern route?" asked Gladys, wonderingly, "I can't imagine what Nyoda is doing. I'm sure she understood we were to take the northern. It's all rig

next door to us bought a motorcycle and got it started and couldn't stop it again and he whizzed up and

n its teeth, carrying its passengers willy-nilly over the wrong road, was

lly our fault for losing her; we should have kept a better lookout. But it's a cold day whe

thoughts were taken up with Pearl and her night in the empty sto

earned that the Glow-worm had passed some t

nd-white-doll-baby-helpless-in-emergency type of girl who ought never be allowed away from home without a guardian. After

hand. Medmangi is going to be a doctor and is in her element when sh

aid, in a weak voice. "I think m

We might have known you hadn't had anything to eat since yesterday if you staye

, in a somewhat embarrassed manner. "

choed Hinpoha. "Why don't you

sed, "when I, when I ran away, I didn't stop t

e got to let us help you. It isn't any more than

she must have been Pearl did not eat very much; her trouble had evidently taken away her appetite. The girls exerted them

stopped short when she saw it, but it was too late, they were already in the midst of it. Both the front tires breathed their last. I think it should be made a criminal offense to leave things like that in the road. But then maybe the man carrying the chi

in a nice shiny cover all ready for emergency, but for some reason or other Gladys couldn't get the old tires off.

who had the automobile explained to him until he knew every part like a brother and then, when asked if he understood it, he replied that he understood all but one thing an

the only promising thing was a house set far back from the road in a grove of trees, and with a vegetable garden running down to the road. They had already left the village behind and habitations were scarce. Gladys went up to the house

looking woman, holding a fretful baby in her arms, came to the door and asked the girls to come up on the porch and sit down until the exchange of

d, mopping her forehead. "He's cried steady sin

e time, but neither of them could make him stop crying. A three year old girl, red-faced and heavy-eyed, as if she had recently awakened from sleep, peered shyly thro

going after another man who lived down the road to help him. Gladys joined us on the porch while he was gone and helped amuse the babies. Still th

" she said to the mother, when next she came

orning," she said, "but he had gone out into the country on a call and would not be back until late to-night. The next nearest

octor from B-- as soon as the tires are on?" asked Gla

asked the w

ery glad to,"

on the porch with the babies and taking Mrs. Martin with her. She had seen Mrs. Martin give a wistful glance toward the big car and surmised rightly that she had few chances to go automo

ue is just as apt to be trouble as not, and that one good turn can unscrew the lid of a whole canful of calamities. Thus it was that Gladys's generous offer to fetch the doc

one of them had had it. And they had all handled both the b

hastily toward the car, "there won't be much danger of our gettin

, in a tone of authority. "No one must leav

said Gladys. "We're tour

te which it was almost impossible to check because people would not keep to themselves when they had it in the house. Young Dr. Caxton had made up his mind that the next case that was reported would be as

; they would suffer no hardship, but, on no account, would a member of that household set a foot off the grounds. He ordered the babies put to bed and the curtains taken down in that room and the rugs taken out. Mrs. Martin obeyed his orders

eld up in the midst of a tour and quarantined with a scarlet fev

o telegraph your f

htened to death if she knew about it," she said. "I don't be

t word to Nyoda

e were to stay there to-night an

or us?" she asked the

answered, amiabl

ocket and left the guard to watch the house. The first thing he did was to take something out of the Striped Beetle-I don't know what-so Gladys

l get busy and help Mrs. Martin. It's no fun to have five people quartered on you when there are two sick children in the house." Medmangi was alr

and finished paring the peaches whic

was a telegram. It was signed by the telegraph company and read: "Yours date ad