Interview 152
XVIII. An Eventful Fishing Trip 159
XIX. The Young Man With the Gun 170
XX. Laura Keeps Her Secret 175
XXI. The Sheriff With His Dogs 182
XXII. Where Professor Dimp Comes in Big 189
XXIII. Liz on the Defensive 196
XXIV. The Barnacle Trees Something at Last 201
XXV. "Quite All Right" 207

THE GIRLS OF CENTRAL HIGH IN CAMP

CHAPTER I

WHERE, OH, WHERE?

Field day was past and gone and the senior class of Central High,
Centerport's largest and most popular school, was thinking of little
but white dresses, bouquets, and blue-ribboned diplomas.

The group of juniors, however, who had made the school's athletic
record for the year in the Girls' Branch Athletic League, had other
matters to discuss--and in their opinion they were matters of much
greater moment.

"Boiled down," stated Bobby Hargrew, "to its last common divisor, it
is 'Where, oh, where shall we spend our vacation?'"

They had decided some weeks before--Bobby herself, Laura Belding, Jess
Morse, the Lockwood twins and Dr. Agnew's daughter, Nellie--that a
portion at least of the long summer vacation should be spent in camp.
The mooted question was, where?

"No seashore resort," Nellie said, with more decision than she usually
displayed, for Nellie was of a timid and peaceful disposition.

"No," agreed Laura Belding. "We'll eschew the three S's--'sun, sand,
and 'skeeter-bites.' That is the slogan of the seashore resort.
Besides, it costs too much to get there."

"That's an important item to take into consideration, girls, if _I'm_
to go," said Jess Morse.

"I thought you were a millionairess?" laughed Bobby. "Where are the
royalties from your play?"

"Those won't begin till the producer puts the play on next season,"
returned Jess, who had been fortunate in writing a play for amateur
production good enough to interest a professional theatrical manager.

"Well, we've got to have _you_, Jess," said Bobby (otherwise Clara)
Hargrew. "For we're depending upon your mother to play chaperon for
the crowd, wherever we go."

"Let's find a quiet spot, then," said Jess, eagerly. "Mother wants to
write a book this summer and she says she would l