The Outdoor Girls at the Hostess House; Or, Doing Their Best for the Soldiers

e, please

around a sharp curve and chug

Mollie Billette, sometimes known as "Billy," retorted, a determined s

, and the four Outdoor Girls, having secured a half-holiday f

t, was in the seat beside her, while Grace Ford and Betty Nelson, their beloved Lit

ing to take many more of those two-wheel turns, I'm going to get out and walk. Oh, Mol-lie!" The

"I've been bumped around so much I can't tell whether I'm a girl or a scrambled egg. Now, look what you did!" A sudden lurch of the big car had sent the box

to so sudden a stop that Grace and Betty both lurched forward and narro

er bright black eyes expectantly upon them.

and her dignity at the same time, the accomplishment of which feat was de

igning to parley further, turned determinedly

t the chocolates at all, but I'm not particularly anxious to spoil my perfectly good shoes with cr

shoes?" Mollie

ther of these alternatives appeal to me, so, with your

d would say," agai

eed Betty, dimpling adorably, "-until we ha

rved for the "Little Captain." "Only please make Grace

ping posture and preparing once more to enter the fray. "When it's all her fault, anyw

d. "And don't overlook any, because th

chocolate!" scoffed Mollie. "Why, all she has to do

ving to exert herself to even so small an extent. Grace, as my old readers doubtless remember, had been born with an ease-loving disposition that not even close associa

't you agree to my proposition? I promised to eat them for you, germ

of the last elusive chocolate, red of face and fierce of eye. "Some time I'll c

Never mind, honey, Roy will give you an

t being asked," retorted Grace cros

t in Amy, with unaccustomed spirit, as Mollie threw in the clutch and the big

cted," retorted Grace, meaningly, while Amy reddened. "

ly. "Can't we have just one good time

nd driving with wild, care-free recklessness along the smooth road. "Oh, Be

ss into some dark life," retorted Betty good-

though talking to herself, "when they found w

agreed Grace lazily. "They

my suddenly, and even Mollie

continued stoutly. "I guess if we were going to give up our

aces sobered thoughtfully. "Because when it comes to a thing like giving up their lives-well, I think they're the bravest-" Her

orizon to hide the mist that suddenly gathered in them

into," Amy broke in eagerly. "Or, if they do,

say that a man who never knew what it was to be afraid wasn't really brave at all. He said it was the man who was scar

or a leg, or being broken in health for the rest of his life. I think what our boys are doing is just to take the fear of that with a smile and go ahead gayly to face wha

"who say the boys just enlisted for the love of adventure, the lov

us who have to stay at home and can't have any of the thrill and excitement that

elevantly. "The suspense is worse than anything else.

llie, laughing. "You can compare yourself to a fou

of a two-footed d

o avoid a storm. "Don't you think it's almost time to be tur

kneck speed, and Mollie stopped the car with a jolt that

ay huddled in the road while the motorcyclist who had caused t

ey disappeared round a turn in the road. Then, with a cry of di

re in the road lay