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

ght and almost out of hearing. The girls who carried the necessary provisions and utensils, however, ma

" said Dolly, happily. "I'm so

ou liked Mar

little bit superior, sometimes. I expect I deserve it when she gives me a lecture, but I li

you some time, Dolly, i

why, but it's the same way with Miss Eleanor. She's scolded me sometim

to you, I suppose? It isn't t

kes me feel as if I had made her unhappy, and they al

e sort of scoldings I used to get from Maw Hoove

essie, for the way she treated

to, but I'm sort of

't see

she didn't have a very much better time than I did. She

xcuse for her trea

rself out on. She took things out on me. I'm beginning to think that maybe she wasn't really mad at me when she acted like that. I

ame! You can forgive her if y

If you hate her like that when you've never even seen h

y la

can't help it. I just feel that way, that

eadful, I h

I wish you'd find out all about your father an

't seem dreadful to Mrs. Hoover, I'm

you, and turn out to be ever so rich. They might, you kno

ly I knew what had become of them, and why they had

to be happy some time. Of course you'd like to have your father and mother, wh

't know what it's li

u could make them take you back to Hedgev

lots of places I'd r

stare at you, and how envious they would be! I bet

the fantastic idea Dolly's

ls. You see, the Hoovers didn't have so very much money, and my clothes were

se Hedgeville girls ever even saw, Bessie. And just

out it, Dolly. It won't ever happen.

at to dream about things that might happen to you.

t your dreams. You can do it better than I co

e'd better stop thinking about dreams and attend to p

tion, and it doesn't look as if it had ever been made like the main trail. It's more a

the way, the trail goes around it, and on the regular trail the guid

hatchet, and I'll mark

Hoovers, cut off a strip of bark on a tree at the meeting point of the two trails, so tha

ing to delay them, they made good time, pausing only o

inging any more, can you?

guess we must be quite a little way ahead

han they ought we

r miles to their three. So if it's ten miles, we ought to be about two miles and a half ahead of them

s plenty of time t

h to do when we get there. It's quite an honor f

t, Bessie. You must remember that. And, o

Look! We're beginning to go down hill now. We'l

to get the fire started. Wh

dish-washing race, so you've cer

u want to, Bessie. I don'

And I believe you can do it

used to think it was a wonderful thing to do

isn't easy until you know

ever so many times, and they usually threw the needle an

as soon as we all ge

. It would be too

made, though. Do you know

re going to have a ham, too. And coffee,

to cook. I guess maybe we'd have to start in

we do. Or else it wouldn't be fair, because some things take

ss Eleanor spoke about that

, for the trail is rising pre

r on top of the peaks, I believe. I wonder if we'll be able to

re's nearly half a mile between t

dreadfully disappointed if they

will

hem. But the prospect of reaching their destination prevented them from being weary; they were to

being on our honor. Either side could cheat, and

f I win anything, I want to know I've really won it, not tha

onder why people who cheat play games at all. I don't bel

dy for a rest. But when they reached the summit, and were able to stand still at last in an

oward the peak that was the twin of their own. A

here yet!"

in time!"

," cried Bessie. "Get your sticks

le she drew the bow steadily and slowly, making the drill revolve in the socket which was full of punk, Bessie broug

ed Dolly. "See how it runs

nd then arose a wisp of smoke. Carefully Bessie piled on stick after stick, ca

"I do love it, Bessie. See, how it ru

azed up, brig

a smoke," said Dolly. "Here's some. I thin

s make the

and full of oil. And in a moment a thic

" cried Dolly. "Catc

Then they lifted it clear of the fire altogether, and the smoke, released, rose straight up in a long, tall column, that was visible for miles wher

ing smoke from the other peak

eally use those si

so, if there were Indians a few miles apart, signals could go very, very quickly for great distances, an

d, and built the fire up so tha

d the water. They'll

spring they knew was near, Dolly cried out that she had found i