The Camp Fire Girls in the Mountains; Or, Bessie King's Strange Adventure

the coming contest with the Boy Scouts by the appearance of a man who had rowed up to the little landing stag

," she explained. "He says that you must go t

est now," said the officer. "But

do your duty, and of course we are anxious to see that the law is properl

there ain't nothin'

my two girls here that haven't come out at all yet. I don't suppose you've heard of th

riff laughed h

am, you see-would jest about rip the hide off of anyone who tried to tech them young ladies while they w

ing is all right," said Eleanor, pleasantly. "It's when we're not expecting their blows that t

ted Rogers. "Say, if he's a friend of yours, you can be sure you'll be looked after all right down

t. Knowing what they did of the treachery and meanness of Holmes, this praise of him was disturbing to a degree. But Ele

nor, decidedly. "Will you be able to wait a

own from the station here at noon, and that gives us lots of time.

urself comfortable," she said, "we'l

mself off, Eleanor called the

ranged for a friend of mine to come over here and take my place as Guardian at short notice. She is Miss Drew-Miss Anna Drew-and s

if she doesn't have the same way of doing everything that I have. I'll get

aka," said Margery Burton loyally. "She'll find t

te by Andrew. Her people own some of this land, and she happens to be in their camp at one

off while Eleanor and the two girls made the simp

t way of Mr. Holmes," she said to Bessie and Dolly. "I was afraid one

e why. I still think he ought to know that this man he seems to think so much of is the very one they ought to watc

edit us with him and all the other authorities at Hamilton, so that they woul

behind this gypsy. We've got the l

proper time comes. He wants to catch Mr. Holmes in a trap if he possibly can, s

that! He doesn't want to pu

lf in some fashion. He'll feel sure that this man John hasn't betrayed him, and if he thinks we don't know anything a

n that he has a lot of friends at Hamilton and that they won't believe anythin

ime! I'd feel ever so much better about Bessie and Zara if I

's this man who is worrying us more than all the

e he's

omes. He doesn't like to be beaten, and it makes him so angry that he takes all sorts of chances, and does the wildest, most despera

u mean, Mi

't do it, he did his best to ruin their business. He would circulate false stories about them, and h

s, so that people would stop buying from them. You see, he could afford to lose money doing that, becaus

or?" asked Bessie. "Don't you remember how you laughed at me then for saying I d

rp, and that you suspected him even when all the rest of us thought he was all right. If it hadn't been for that

ey do have women detectives now, don't they? And she seems to be abl

heartily at t

tective, Dolly. The trouble with you is that you read too many novels. You think peopl

e lake on his return from carrying Eleanor's note to Miss Dr

e to come over here till after lunch, but she'll be right over then with a b

can leave here with a clear conscience. Andrew, you'll s

of the boys was thinking maybe you'd like to have some

drew, but I don't believe we'll

be his twin brother for that. They're birds of a feather, see? And onct they get it into their heads that a thing's so, there ain't nothin' I know of

d Eleanor. "And it's very good of you to offer to come.

r the law part of this for you, you'll have a good chance to beat them sharks down there. Some pretty smart lawyers there at Hamilton, they tell me, ma'a

e can't settle their troubles so easily. Well,

trail. Not a bit of use hurryin' when there ain't no need of it, I say. Th

the girls who were left behind, they started in the boa

far as the station, and as the train p

us word, and we'll find a way to get there a bit quicker than we're expected," h

rn them, safe and sound. And it won't take any long time, neither. There's a good case against that

d Andrew, "if I have to vote a Demmycratic ticket to do it, and t

nd manner, but Eleanor had a presentiment of

Lake the brakeman called out the name of the county seat. Eleanor and the two girls, with Rogers carry

with a grin of malicious triumph that worried Eleanor. And Rogers, a mom

d Mr. Jamieson is