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Title: The Camp Fire Girls Behind the Lines

Author: Margaret O'Bannon Womack Vandercook

Release Date: August 26, 2010 [EBook #33532]

Language: English

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THE CAMP FIRE GIRLS BEHIND THE LINES

BY MARGARET VANDERCOOK

Author of "The Ranch Girls" Series, "The Red Cross Girls" Series, etc.

ILLUSTRATED

PHILADELPHIA
THE JOHN C. WINSTON CO.
PUBLISHERS

Copyright, 1918, by
The John C. Winston Company

[Illustration: A Sentry Ordered Dan to Stop His Car]

CONTENTS

I. "EL CAMINO REAL"

II. THE LAND OF ROMANCE

III. THE CALL TO SERVICE

IV. THE CAMP AND TEMPERAMENTAL EXCURSIONS

V. ABALONE SHELLS

VI. "MY OWN WILL COME TO ME"

VII. THE SACRIFICE OF YOUTH

VIII. FELIPE

IX. THE CANTONMENT

X. PLANS

XI. THE DANCE

XII. "AS YOU LIKE IT"

XIII. HUMAN PSYCHOLOGY

XIV. THE NIGHT OF THE PLAY

XV. "I WILL MARRY YOU, IF EVER I MARRY WOMAN"

XVI. GERRY'S OPPORTUNITY

XVII. FOLLY AND COURAGE

XVIII. THE SUMMONS

XIX. PLANS FOR THE FUTURE

XX. BITTER WATERS

ILLUSTRATIONS

A SENTRY ORDERED DAN TO STOP HIS CAR

THEIR HOST LED THE WAY THROUGH THE OUTER COURT INTO THE ENCLOSED ONE

ON ONE OCCASION GERRY AND FELIPE DISCOVERED THAT THEY WERE ACTUALLY
DANCING ALONE

AS MRS. BURTON DREW NEAR SHE RECOGNIZED ONE OF THEM AS DAN WEBSTER

The Camp Fire Girls Behind the Lines

CHAPTER I

"El Camino Real"

A small cavalcade was slowly winding down a steep, white road.

The bare, brown hills rose up on one side like the earth's friars of St.
Francis, while on the other, at some distance away, the Pacific Ocean
showed green and still. Near the shore the waves broke into white
sprites of foam against the deep, incurving cliffs.

A girl riding at the head of the column reined in her horse, afterwards
making a mysterious sign in the air