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

ong Lake on the first train in the morning, and they were celebrating with the best dinner the town of Hamilton could afford. "

y. "I never even knew I was locked in-I was let out

ly. "We'd have found it out as soon as we wanted to leave the room to go down for lunch,

adn't been so anxious to make a little more money out of me,

hed Eleanor. "Is it true that he left town by the first train after he h

" said Charl

hought we were going to be witnesses and have all sorts of fun. A

tter, Dolly. There wasn't anything else for him to do. With that, added to the sto

ng to send th

eter and Lolla, who helped him, they get off easily. They were sentenced, too, but the judge suspende

ouls! I don't believe they understood

hing that Curtin decided it for them. Don't worry about them any more. Holmes will have to pay John a good deal of money when he co

now that they've

t's such a bad thing. It gives us a starting point, you see. And if the thing isn't made public, he may get more reckless, and give us another chance to land him where he b

you get down?" Ele

n that man's face! I was terribly frightened. I didn't know what he might be going to do to

have been sure to he

as tying Mr. Jamieson up. And I didn't know what he would do, but I was afraid he might

Jamieson, admiringly. "Was it ver

e wanted to go herself. But I said I had seen it, and made the plan

You might easily have broken your neck

thought that window was pretty sure to be open. It was, so I got inside, and then I found the room I was in was empty, and the door was o

likely to forget it very soon, either. That was a pret

say. I really believe Dolly had the worst time, when you think a

at the memory. "But I think it was much wo

was locked, so he had the relief of thinking that she'd been able to get help in just an ordinary fashion. Of course, if he or I had known what a risk

," said Bessie. "I don't know what

onestly. "I couldn't have uttered a sound, no matter what depended on it, until I saw you

," said Eleanor. "Are you going b

gainst that poor chap, and there are one or two other matters I want to attend to while I'm here.

Lake the next day when, in the middle of the morning, the well-remembered camp appeared.

urs. They did their best not to let me know, but I managed to find out, without their know

es of the Camp Fire. All Guardians are allowed to do that, you know. But

very best thing about the Camp Fire. It doesn't hold you dow

to do-and it's for Guardians, if they're youngsters like you and me, as w

t jobs do

, and a lot more difficult, and important, too, than waiting on people in a shop, or bein

ut you're right. We get married, and a whole lot of us d

fe as partners. But if the man knew as little about his part of the job as the woman generally

ioned, but I don't be

not saying we ought not to vote, or that we ought to. But I do think there are a lot of things we ought to think about firs

and mine probably spun cloth and made clothes for themselves and most of t

a shop now for less money than you or I would have to spend in making him one. But there

ught I'd spent a lot of time studying the Cam

o Mrs. Chester, our Chief Guardian. She'd make you think, and

his winter. I want to be Guardian of a Camp Fire of my own. I've had just enough o

who've got the patience and the time for the work. But that's chiefly because they don't know how fascinating it is, and how much more fun there is in doing it than

girls coming up to visit me, and I've simply got to be there to entertain them. So if you're really

r so grateful to you for coming. I can tell you right now that th

one to be grateful, I'm sure. The more experience I get before I'm a regular G

work, and won't try. I'm not sure that it's so much 'won't' as-oh, I don't know! I think they're afraid-they haven't

t is to be a good Guardian, 'and how sure she is that she'll make good, I'm always afraid she's going to fail. If you make the girls unders

ve a part in the work. I noticed that about your girls, particularly,

r them-leaving them to you. It shows, I think, that the Camp Fire is in good shape and able to get along, not exactly by itself, but under different conditions. I m

nd then the girls gathered on the beach and

plans for the field day in which the Boy Scouts were also to take part, and

and there's no one to make trouble for us," Dolly complain

Zara. "First thing you know you'

n we got away from that gypsy that you'd

slow up here-no place to buy soda

exciting," said Zara. "I'm really learning

and one walk is just li

r long walk. There'll be plenty of excitement then, and one walk won't be just like