Gets a Check. 75
XVI Langford Checks Up. 82
XVII A Day of Hard Work. 87
XVIII Planning. 91
XIX Watched. 95
XX A Missile. 100
XXI "Sh!" 104
XXII The Graham Girls Call. 108
XXIII "High C." 115
XXIV The Runaway. 120
XXV A Little Scrapper. 125
XXVI Ammunition and Catapults. 130
XXVII The Ghost. 136
XXVIII A Bump on the Head. 141
XXIX A Cruel Woman. 146
XXX The Girls Win. 151

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CAMP FIRE GIRLS AT TWIN LAKES
OR
The Quest of a Summer Vacation

BY STELLA M. FRANCIS

CHAPTER I.

ABOUT TEETH AND TEDDY BEARS.

"Girls, I have some great news for you. I'm sure you'll be interested,
and I hope you'll be as delighted as I am. Come on, all of you. Gather
around in a circle just as if we were going to have a Council Fire and
I'll tell you something that will--that will--Teddy Bear your teeth."

A chorus of laughter, just a little derisive, greeted Katherine Crane's
enigmatical figure of speech. The merriment came from eleven members of
Flamingo Camp Fire, who proceeded to form an arc of a circle in front of
the speaker on the hillside grass plot near the white canvas tents of
the girls' camp.

"What does it mean to Teddy Bear your teeth?" inquired Julietta Hyde
with mock impatience. "Come, Katherine, you are as much of a problem
with your ideas as Harriet Newcomb is with her big words. Do you know
the nicknames some of us are thinking of giving to her?"

"No, what is it?" Katherine asked.

"Polly."

"Polly? Why Polly?" was the next question of the user of obscure figures
of speech, who seemed by this time to have forgotten the subject that
she started to introduce when she opened the conversation.

"Polly Syllable, of course," Julietta answered, and the burst of
laughter that followed would have been enough to silence the most
ambitious joker, but this girl fun-maker was not in the least ambitious,
so she laughed appreciatively with the others.

"Well, anyway," she declared after the merriment had subsided; "Harriet