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Ethel Hollister's Second Summer as a Campfire Girl

Chapter 10 A HEROINE

Word Count: 1012    |    Released on: 01/12/2017

e papers and the entire Camp was written up. The once neglected and disliked girl was

t day, "I don't think I'd dare marry a woman

hed good

blarney,"

and whose nature was forgiving devoted herself to the girl, reading aloud, relating funny st

aped from Joliet jail and admitted having been for days in the woods. Ethel rode to the trial and identified their voices but she had not seen their faces. They were returned to jail in Joliet and before they left the

to take Nora home, everyone flocked around him telling of his da

that. There's none more br

an Ethel. She felt that the girl had saved

Nora, "why did y

" replied Ethel, "I

the girl, "did yo

loud voice that I dislike. But even so I should have overlooked that, had I been a

hel-" sa

future," said th

voice. My teachers have always done so, and even my mother u

e?" ask

ut at heart she was a lady. So your disl

nkful to hear your loud voice when I lay there wounde

ke myself different-more of a lady. Will you tell me

and kissed Nora

irl became a general favorite. S

id. "She'd give her life for a

heir New York Camp Fire, an

make them more gentle. And you have no idea how they are improving. And as for Dorothy's nursery, it's ju

ing twenty miles on the Muskingum River, and for sailing a boat without help for fifty miles. They also received extra honors for cooking

emed to feel her own unworthiness. Mrs. Hollister suggested to Mr. C

like yourself, and if you'll let me pay her board I'll consider it a great favor. And if she might go to s

gged so hard that, realizing what Nora had done for Ethel, she felt

," said Nora, "I will be

put her arm a

ough for you. It's little enough for me to take you, and I sh

In November, Nora was to

ter ho

o give the girl her room, sh

mother,-"the brave girl to whom I have been so unjust. I'm glad

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