king, substituting bran
and corn-meal for wheat flour which were really improvements on the old.
Moreover, the summer before the Indian girl, Dawapa, had taught the
Sunrise Camp Fire members a number of the old Indian uses of corn. With
perishable fruits and vegetables so abundant, it was unnecessary, during
the summer at least, to suffer any real discomfort from war economies.

Now and then one of the girls would develop a too rigorous idea of
self-denial to meet with the approval of her Camp Fire guardian. But
after a time Mrs. Burton ceased to worry over original departures,
permitting the girls to adjust matters for themselves.

However, it is not the adjustment of mere material things which is the
difficult problem with human beings in living together, but the
adjustment of one unlike nature with another.

As much as possible after his open disagreement with Billy, Dan Webster
endeavored to avoid his brother's society. They never had been
congenial or spent much time together since the days when they were
children. But at present Dan and Billy were sleeping in the same tent at
night and in the daytime Billy was always mooning about camp insisting
upon one of the girls listening to him. He preferred Vera, but if she
were too busy, any one of the other girls could substitute.

This would have made no difference to Dan except that Billy blandly and
serenely continued to expound his views upon peace in spite of the fact
that every member of Sunrise camp disagreed with him.

Hard as it was to endure, Dan's hands were tied, for he had solemnly
promised his mother not to use physical violence with Billy, and nothing
else would stop the flow of his misplaced eloquence.

So, as Dan was an ardent fisherman, he used to spend days away from camp
fishing and swimming. He was fond of the Camp Fire girls, especially of
Marta Clark and of Sally Ashton, but he could not endure too large a
diet of exclusively feminine society. Moreover, Dan was too accomplished
an athlete and too fine a fellow all round not to make friends wherever
he went among men.

One afternoon it chanced that Dan was alone and preparing to go in
swimming at a rather dangerous point about three miles below Sunrise
camp.

The spot was deserted and Dan was beginning to undress when he became
conscious of the uncomfortable sensation that some one at no great
distance off was watching him.

Glancing about, Dan discovered the calm figure of his brother stan