The Camp Fire Girls on the Farm; Or, Bessie King's New Chum

Manasquan Camp Fire of the Camp Fire Girls of America to feel that there was only one thing to do-pack up and move away. But, though the camp itself was in ruins, there

t are completely ruined and those that are worth saving

d-Gatherers, to which all girls belong when they join; the Fire-Makers, next in order, and, finally, the Torch-Bearers, of which Manasquan Camp Fire had none. These rank next to the Guardian in a Camp Fire, and, as a rule, there is only one in

ther girls in sorting out the things which could be used, despite the dam

best way to get rid of it is just to burn it. All hands to work now, piling it up and seeing that there is a good

lly surveying the places where the tents had stood. Only two rema

ou realize that we've been so excited that we haven't had any breakfast? I should th

said Dolly, with a comical gesture. "Wha

n he saw the fire, to see if he couldn't help in some way, and he's gone in to Bay City. He'll be ou

going to stay here?

e thing like this fire drive us away! We are going to stay here, and, what's more, we're go

lf a dozen of th

gery Burton applied a light to it, the girls formed a circle about it, and da

eanor. "We just toss them into the flames, and-they're gone! What's left is clean and good

ng, "that this should have happened to us so soo

expect to find them in such trouble when we started to walk there, but we were able to help them, and to show them that

felt terrible when I first saw the place in the light, af

'll have a fine meal-and if you're half as hungry as I am you'll be glad of that-and we'll spend the

nsom, as she linked her arm with Bessie'

y. I haven't had a chance to thank

for me, wouldn't you? I'm only just as glad as I can be that I was

ened-more than I was, I think, and yet I don't see how that can b

old of you at all, Bess

ow, after we found out that that yacht was here

reason to be ner

do with it. But, of course, there wasn't anything to do but try as hard I could to help put out the fire, and it was so exciting that I

y really did help, Bessie. I guess we wouldn't have sav

another man got hold of me, and he kept me from shouting, and carried me off to the yacht in the boat. Zara had fainted, and they kept us down below

-that they might try to carry you two off that way. I don't see how it can be that you're all rig

ve a guardian, and I left the Hoovers. So that old Farmer Weeks-you know about him, don't you?-is our guardian in

er's no good

ian. But if they can get us into that othe

lped us with the fire that you were missing, they said they were afraid you must have been caug

ff, talking to her when s

nd he threatened to put her off if she didn

e said when she was in the cabin on the yacht

r some sort of officers who could search the yacht. But we were terribly afraid that they would sail away before those m

lly! I don't see how you ever thought of it, and how you wer

n, and that would keep them there for a little while, anyhow. And they never seemed to think of that possibility at all. So I swam ou

r, and mighty plucky

. I wish I'd been able to hear what they said

one on board blamed everyone else. It took them quite a while to find out what was the matter, and th

here! We kept watching it all the time, of course, and we saw them send the sailor over to dive down and find out what was

e been excit

? But it would have been dreadful if, after having

o you! I hate to think of where I would be

o those men on the y

I think. But that won't be decided until her cousin, Mr. Jamieson, the lawyer, comes. H

r this time. Of course, if they had got you away, they'd have been all right, because in that other state where you two came from what

er here now than if we went somewhere else? They've tried their best to get at us here, and they co

there were two girls on guard last

they were aslee

is. Margery and Mary were sitting back to back, so that one could watch the yacht and the other the

a good ide

nd no one came down the path, until later, anyhow. The first thing that made Margery think there was

en an accident, D

re too soon, and it fitted in too well with their plans.

that, if there were none of

d smoulder, and soon set the canvas on fire. And there was a high wind last night, and it wouldn't have taken long

that can be prove

elf that it seems that it must have happened, without being able to prove it to someone else. That's wh

ouldn't keep straight, and really make more m

's the Sally S. with our breakfast-and there's another boa

ter, while the girls were helping Captain Salters to unload the stores