ne, who puts clothes before everything. But I told her
what I had in mind, and she said it sounded perfectly thrilling.

"We each of us ought to learn some one thing," she said, "so we can do
it right. It's an age of Specialties. Suppose you take up signaling, or
sharp-shooting if you prefer it, and I can learn wireless telegraphy.
And maybe Betty will take the flying course, because we ought to have
an Aviator and she is afraid of nothing, besides having an uncle who is
thinking of buying an Aeroplane."

"What else would you sugest?" I said freezingly. Because to hear her one
would have considered the entire G. A. C. as her own idea.

"Well," she said, "I don't know, unless we have a Secret Service and
guard your father's mill. Because every one thinks he is going to have
trouble with Spies."

I made no reply to this, as William was dusting the Drawing Room, but
said, "Come over. We can discuss that privatly." I then rang off.

I am terrably worried, because my father is my best friend, having
always understood me. I cannot endure to think that he is in danger.
Alas, how true are the words of Dryden:

"War, he sung, is Toil and Trouble,
Honour but an empty Bubble."

NOON: Jane came over as soon as she had had her breakfast, and it was
a good thing I had everything written out, because she started in right
away to run things. She wanted a Constitution and By-Laws as I had
expected. But I was ready for her.

"We have a Constitution, Jane," I said, solemnly. "The Constitution of
the United States, and if it is good enough for a whole Country I darsay
it is good enough for us. As for By-laws, we can make them as we need
them, which is the way laws ought to be made anyhow."

We then made a list, Jane calling up as I got the numbers in the
telephone book. Everybody accepted, although Betty Anderson objected to
the orange tie because she has red hair, and one of the Robinson twins
could not get ten dollars because she was on probation at School and
her Familey very cold with her. But she had loned a girl at school five
dollars and was going to write for it at once, and thought she could
sell a last year's sweater for three dollars to their laundress's
daughter. We therfore admited her.

All is going well, unless our Parents refuse, which is not likely, as we
intend to purchace the Tent and Unaforms before consulting them. It is
the way of Parents not to care to see money wasted.

Our motto we have decid