look as if you had the weight o

casion. Marion and Helen did not respond in tones of joviality, as might have been expected. They met her jocular reproach with

?" she repeated more seri

Marion without any change of tone or manner. "They will explain the whole

ted deprecatingly, "I hope

ion and Helen watched her closely as she read, but the Guardian of Flamingo Fire indicated her strength of character by a s

ve no idea who wr

of the Boy Scouts at Spring Lake. Helen thinks it was, and I am inclined to believe with her that it d

energetically. "And we have got to do somethin

ing courage, for she felt that in the Camp Fire's Guardian she had found el

they'll have a couple of hours in which to stiffen their courage. There are eleven girls besides you two. Suppose you call them here in three lots in s

g. "I'll bring the first four a

dian reassuringly. "It is so simple

elen or Miss Ladd for fear lest they recommend something foolish. Now it appears that each of them has a very clever head on her shoulders. Maybe I'll find the other girls possessed of just as go

nce of apprehension, for by this time all the girls had begun to suspect that something unusual was doing. This appeared to be eviden

elt just a little bit foolish because of her groundless misjudgment of them. After the last group h

oines, and that is about the same thing. You take this as calmly as if

girls?" said Julietta Hyde, blinking comically. "We ca

for those who haven't any Camp Fire scheme of honors. But really, girls, you have all conducted yourselves admirably

f this?" asked Katherine Crane almost as dejectedly as if she we

iss Ladd. "As soon as we get to Hollyhill we will take the matter up

everything to his management. He will probably advise us to give up the idea of doing anythin

nner in which she spoke indicated how much she ha

r and privation among them, but considerable sickness among the children. We can't do a whole lot in two weeks, but we can do something, and our training as Camp

your father or they wouldn't b

d their families but conditions tied his hands. Many of the miners are good fellows, but they get mistaken ideas in the

whatever happens. I'm interested in what Marion tells us about the miners. Let's make a study of coal mining, hold up everybody we can

ll keep that in mind and if Marion's fathe

ing at the station to convey the girls to Marion's home. The run to the spacious, half-rustic Stanlock re

drive, and stopped near a white pillared pergola connected with the large c

ion then inquired for her father, but Mr. Stanlock had gone to his office early in the day and would not return until dinn

at his delay, Mrs. Stanlock called up his office, but learned t

?" Mrs. Stanlock

mobile," was

re than an hour ago. His office was in the city an

the police, stated the circumstances and a

communicated by phone to most of Mr. Stanlock's friends and acquaintances throughout the city

red at home, driving the machine himself. He h