istant.
This is her desire, you know, 'That light which has been given to me, I
desire to pass undimmed to others.'"

"I'm going to try to be a Torch-Bearer whenever I can," said Zara.

"There's no reason why you shouldn't be, Zara. That ought to be the
ambition of every Camp Fire Girl--to be able, sometime, to help others
to get as much good from the Camp Fire as she has herself."

While they talked it had been growing darker. And now Miss Mercer called
to the girls.

"We're going to be driven over to the big camp, girls," she said. "I
think we've had quite enough tramping for one day. I don't want you to
be so tired that you won't enjoy the Council Fire to-night."

There was a chorus of laughter at that, as if the idea that they could
ever be too tired to enjoy a Council Fire was a great joke--as, indeed,
it was.

But, just the same, the idea of a ride wasn't a bit unwelcome. The
troubles of Bessie and Zara had caused a sudden change in the plans of
the Camp Fire, as Miss Mercer had made them originally, and they had had
a long and strenuous day. So they greeted the big farm wagons that
presently rolled up with a chorus of laughs and cheers, and the drivers
blinked with astonishment as they heard the Wohelo cheer ring out.

There were two of the wagons, so that there was room for all of them
without crowding. Bessie and Zara rode in the first one, close to
Wanaka, who had, of course, taken them under her wing.

"You stay close by me," she said to them. "I want you to meet Mrs.
Chester as soon as we get to the camp."

"Where is it?"

"That's the surprise I told the girls I had for them this morning. A
friend of Mrs. Chester, who has a beautiful place near here, has let us
use it for a camping ground. It's the most wonderful place you ever saw.
There are deer, quite tame, and all sorts of lovely things. But you'll
see more of that in the morning, of course. We've all got to be ever so
careful, though, not to frighten the deer or to hurt anything about the
place. It's very good of General Seeley to let us be there at all, and
we must show him that we are grateful. For the girls who couldn't get
far away from the city it's been particularly splendid, because they
couldn't possibly have such a good time anywhere else that's near by."

"Oh!" cried Bessie, a moment later, as the wagons turned from the road
into a lane that was flanked on both sides by great trees. "I never saw
a place so pretty!"

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