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

on of something good impending. Crowded as they were in the one big room for Mrs. Sanderson's accommodation, they ha

through the two big east windows and settled on the tip o

a hand across her

he sat up in bed, jerking the covers from her now fully aro

ly. "I never heard you talk so much this early in the morning since th

again, and Grace jumped

garded her out of wide and sleep-brilliant eyes. "I heard a doctor say t

a speculative look: "If you'll wait just about t

With a bound she was out of the

ould think it would be almost worth while having th

g little nose ruefully. "It's easy to talk when it's some one els

n the sun-flooded cot, "only you don't really look as though you were dying of anything, you know-e

e took the place Mollie had vacated. "Don't you believe her, Bet

ughed de

wist to the corner of her mouth. "Never mind, Moll

er, and even Gr

f nothing at all, "that we have a whole holida

Amy eagerly. "I thought maybe we

eyes were focused upo

they queri

ays was when about to suggest something for another's comf

was thinking. The dear old lady seemed so much better yesterday I thought

he latter heartily, "I'd lov

led. "Why shouldn't she come-that i

e told me the other day that she 'hated them gasoline wagons worse than poison,'-that the only reason she rode in ours was because she was unc

he flung back the covers

" she said. "Maybe she's changed her mind by

tfully, as they dressed hastily. "She must be pretty old, and yet she says th

and very judicially. "You know working on a farm in the hot sun the way she

" sighed Amy for-the girls did not know whether it was the

ly pulled on a shoe as if it were in some mysterious way responsible for the unsati

regarding her own pretty reflection in the mirror. "But if you mean

thinking of Diana's beauty. I was merely thi

ning upon her friend with a melodramatic frown. "Do y

gly. "That shows a guilty conscie

kly. "May I ask," she added very

ed Mollie patiently, "tha

her in horror. "And you just t

ration, then turned away in disgust. "There's

ollie dear,"

we were hunting two men-Mrs. Sanderson's Willie and the motorcyclist who

chasing an asbestos

danced. "After this, you will kindly answer when y

s Nelson, that although I am extremely fond of you-mistaken as

stop maundering," threatened Mollie. "A girl has

cently, and Betty and Amy had to form

tle Captain, her eyes twinkling. "Not till after breakfas

derers terribly," added Amy

let her off until after breakfast,

they queried

ronger then