THE CAMPFIRE GIRLS
SERIES

  • A CAMPFIRE GIRL’S FIRST COUNCIL FIRE
  • A CAMPFIRE GIRL’S CHUM
  • A CAMPFIRE GIRL IN SUMMER CAMP
  • A CAMPFIRE GIRL’S ADVENTURE
  • A CAMPFIRE GIRL’S TEST OF FRIENDSHIP
  • A CAMPFIRE GIRL’S HAPPINESS

Frontispiece“Keep still, and you won’t be hurt,” commanded
the man.

A Campfire Girl’s
Test of Friendship

By
JANE L. STEWART

CAMPFIRE GIRLS SERIES
VOLUME V

THE
SAALFIELD PUBLISHING COMPANY
AKRON, OHIO NEW YORK

Made in U.S.A.

COPYRIGHT, MCMXIV
BY

THE SAALFIELD PUBLISHING CO.


[11]The Camp Fire Girls
On the March


CHAPTER I
AN UNEXPECTED VISITOR

“Oh, what a glorious day!” cried Bessie King, the first of the membersof the Manasquan Camp Fire Girls of America to emerge from the sleepinghouse of Camp Sunset, on Lake Dean, and to see the sun sparkling on thewater of the lake. She was not long alone in her enjoyment of the scene,however.

“Oh, it’s lovely!” said Dolly Ransom, as, rubbing her eyes sleepily,since it was only a little after six, she joined her friend on theporch. “This is really the first time we’ve had a chance to see what thelake looks like. It’s been covered with that dense smoke ever sincewe’ve been here.”

“Well, the smoke has nearly all gone, Dolly. The change in the wind not[12]only helped to put out the fire, but it’s driving the smoke away fromus.”

“The smoke isn’t all gone, though, Bessie. Look over there. It’s stillrising from the other end of the woods on the other side of the lake,but it isn’t bothering us over here any more.”

“What a pity it is that we’ve got to go away just as the weather givesus a chance to enjoy it here! But then I guess we’ll have a good timewhen we do go away, anyhow. We thought we weren’t going to enjoy ithere, but it hasn’t been so bad, after all, has it?”

“No, because it ended well, Bessie. But if those girls in the camp nextdoor had had their way, we wouldn’t have had a single pleasant thing toremember about staying here, would we?”

“They’ve had their lesson, I think, Dolly. Perhaps they won’t be soready to look down on the Camp Fire Girls after this—and I’m sure theywould be nice and friendly if we stayed.”

“I wouldn’t want any of their friendliness. All I’d ask would be for[13]them to let us alone. That’s all I ever did want them to do, anyhow. Ifthey had just minded their own affairs, there wouldn’t have been anytrouble.”

“Well, I feel sort of sorry for them, Dolly. When they finally got intoreal trouble they had to come to us for help, and if they are the sortof girls they

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