proceeding any longer
than necessary. Accordingly, as soon as the opening ceremony and
preliminary business was over, she made the announcement.

"I am afraid there will be some disappointments," she said, "but it
could not be helped. You have all been marked fairly, and I am sure you
would not want to pass too easily.

"And for the benefit of the girls who can't go on the canoe trip, I want
to say that the next summer I intend to take the troop to a big
organized camp where there are other Scout troops. And I shall include
everyone who wants to go, provided, of course, that she is at least a
second-class Scout.

"I congratulate the following girls, and request that they come forward
to receive the Pioneer badge:

"Edith Evans, Helen Stewart, Frances Wright, Ethel Todd, Marian Guard,
Lily Andrews, Ruth Henry, Marjorie Wilkinson, Doris Sands, Florence
Evans, Alice Endicott, Mildred Cavin, Evelyn Hopkins."

Amid the shouts of their companions, the girls stepped up to receive
their badges. None of the girls whose names had not been called seemed
really disappointed; probably they had all realized that they stood no
chance of passing the test. The successful Scouts had earned their
reward faithfully; there was no jealousy or envy among the less
fortunate.

Marjorie, therefore, was perfectly satisfied with the results. She had
lost her own canoe, but she had it back again, and now she was to have a
glorious trip during the vacation, accompanied by Lily and Doris, and
her beloved Captain. She was thankful, too, that Ruth had received the
badge; for, had she been left out, she might have made things
uncomfortable for the girls who had passed.

While Marjorie was waiting for an answer to her letter from her mother,
she was surprised to receive a letter from Jennie Perkins. It was just
another friendly letter, telling little about herself, and much about
her troop and its activities. Marjorie looked immediately for the
postmark, and was disappointed to find it again Trenton, and not New
York.

"We are going to hike to Princeton next Saturday," she wrote, "and
perhaps go through the college. Some of us have uniforms," she added;
"and some of us just have to wear our plain clothes. I am in this class
for I have not saved enough money yet to buy mine. But I want to get it
by June first, as that is my birthday."

Marjorie opened her eyes wide as she read these words; Jennie Perkins
would be at Princeton the same day she