The Meadow-Brook Girls by the Sea; Or, The Loss of The Lonesome Bar

up Tommy and Harriet and started to carry them into camp. Tommy offered no resistance. She submitted willingly. With Harriet it w

o take care of myself,

eyes sunken, with dark rings underneath them, but in other ways she appeared to be her old

about it," cried sev

Mrs. Livingston gazed wonderingly at Harriet Burrell, knowing full well that the latter had borne the

Meadow-Brook Girls. That meal strengthened and cheered them wonderfully. Tommy began to chatter after having drunk her first cup of coffee. Their companions sat

you wished fish for brea

her with a fr

akfatht. It wath the fithh that

off this coast, too!"

water for long?"

rs," admitted Harriet, accompanying the words with a brig

cried the gir

please tell us abou

gston shoo

ed in answer to Harriet's protests, "it is my order. You are to turn in and sleep until supper time, i

hat she did not wish to be "babied," but, the guardian was firm. After tucking them in Mrs. Livingston sat down on the edge of Tommy's cot and began asking her questions, all of which Tom

ivingston. "There are not many like you; but we shall speak of your achievements later. Now I will draw th

hould like to ask. Did you see anything

. W

It anchored in the cove. They had put out their

sure ab

ndered if they had

ing in here. This is a remote place where people seldom come. That was why I chose it for our summer

ot going to keep you here

o to thleep," in

long point of land just this

s not occupied, nor has it

hile we are in camp? I should love to be down

of the sea, after your dreadful experien

a. It is wonderful! Do you t

rom the camp than I like. I prefer to have my girls where I can have an eye on them at all times. But the Meadow-Brook Gi

with glowing eyes. "Then, if we wish, we may sl

, my dear. Now go to sleep. This

departure. She did not awaken until the sun had dipped into the sea. As she forced herself to a realization of her

bor had given a keen zest to the appetites of the campers; added to this was the satisfaction of having completed their work. The camp now was in trim condition. Acting upon the orders

l fire that was always held during the summer encampment. Of all this Harriet was unaware. When she awakened she found dry clothing

t, dear," she said

do I feel? Not tho wet ath I did latht night. I th

. Let's go out and see the girl

and following me about ath though I wath t

ike that. It would embarra

ly, puckering her face into frowns and squinting up at Harriet so

n disorder, for Jane had found no time to attend to her hair. She had been working, which mean

that the grease is on the bacon and the potatoes are popping open in the hot ashes of the cook fire. We're going to

out of bed and gleefully

interest you, darl

ng to a fire," declared Harri

Jane; "the camp fire-the

othes to her satisfaction, she darted from the tent, spinning Jane half-way around a

Some one snatched a hot tuber from the ashes and tossed it to her. Tommy caught the potato, but

ose to burn her fingers again. The guardian gouged out a hole to the bottom, filling the hole with butter, Tommy's eyes growing larger and larger. Then she began to eat the pota

Tommy. "Pleathe,

or supper?" suggested Miss Elting. "In your

ithh thwimming in the ocean all night you, too, would have an

he Chief Guardian's laughing reply. "Were you afraid

buthy trying to keep from filling up with thalt water.

rdl

advice of a fit

enjoyed by Mrs. Livingston. Tommy always was a source of amusement to her. She appreciated the a

by one the girls left to go to their tents to don their ceremonial dress, and in place of the regulation serge uniform of the Camp Girls figures clad

fore a moccasined Wau-Wau girl ran at an Indian lope thr

und the co

ain waits

center from her own tent. The girls began moving toward a dark spot in the

oing to do?" q

eet underneath them, speaking no words, waiting for the flame that would open the Wau-Wau council. At last all were seated. From among the number there step

licker, fli

fire,

r bodies from side to side in unison as the blaze grew into a flame and the flame into a roaring fire, the to

ning her back to the flames and facing part of the circle of expectant

eting would soon be explained, thus relieving the curiosity of some fifty girls who were