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Title: The Camp Fire Girls Across the Seas

Author: Margaret Vandercook

Release Date: September 23, 2010 [EBook #33806]

Language: English

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THE CAMP FIRE GIRLS ACROSS THE SEAS

BY MARGARET VANDERCOOK

Author of "The Ranch Girls Series," etc.

ILLUSTRATED

PHILADELPHIA
THE JOHN C. WINSTON CO.
PUBLISHERS

Copyright, 1914, by
THE JOHN C. WINSTON COMPANY

[Illustration: "LOOK HERE, ESTHER," HE BEGAN]

CONTENTS

I. TWO YEARS LATER

II. THE WHEEL REVOLVES

III. FAREWELLS

IV. UNTER DEN LINDEN

V. CHANGES

VI. A COSMOPOLITAN COMPANY

VII. DAS RHEINGOLD

VIII. OTHER SCENES

IX. THE MEETING

X. AN ADVENTURE

XI. AND ITS CONSEQUENCES

XII. THE UNCERTAIN FUTURE

XIII. RICHARD ASHTON

XIV. BETTY'S STRANGE DISAPPEARANCE

XV. THE FINDING OF BRUNHILDE

XVI. A HEART-TO-HEART TALK

XVII. THE DAY BEFORE ESTHER'S DEBUT

XVIII. THAT NIGHT

XIX. TEA AT THE CASTLE

XX. ESTHER AND DICK

XXI. SUNRISE CABIN

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

"LOOK HERE, ESTHER," HE BEGAN

THERE WAS A SLIGHT SOUND FROM HIS LISTENER

"TELL ME MORE ABOUT THE PLACES NEAR HERE"

"FIFTY THOUSAND DOLLARS TO ME!"

The Camp Fire Girls Across the Seas

CHAPTER I

Two Years Later

A young man strode along through one of the principal streets of the
town of Woodford, New Hampshire, with his blue eyes clouded and an
expression of mingled displeasure and purpose about the firm lines of
his mouth.

It was an April afternoon and the warm sunshine uncurling the tiny buds
on the old elm trees lit to a brighter hue the yellow Forsythia bushes
already in bloom in the gardens along the way.

Standing in front of an inconspicuous brown cottage was a l