ere Edith Linder and Martha Greaves, the English Girl
Guide, who was her guest.

Personally Tory felt considerable embarrassment concerning her own
neglect of the young English girl who had been left dependent in a
measure upon her interest and friendliness. She had not intended any
rudeness or indifference. Her greater interest and affection for
Katherine Moore had dominated all other ideas and emotions.

Even before Miss Frean's lecture Tory had suffered an occasional
moment of self-reproach. However, only within the past twenty-four
hours had she talked over the situation frankly and openly with Martha
and offered an apology.

It was delightful to have discovered her to be altogether sensible and
agreeable. Apparently the young English Girl Guide had understood and
accepted the circumstances. She not only failed to express any show of
resentment at Tory's unintentional disregard of her, she appeared not
to feel any resentment.

"It has all been a wonderful experience for me, the opportunity this
summer to meet and know so many American Girl Scouts," she explained.
"Nor has it been possible to feel either lonely or neglected. The
other girls have been so friendly and interested. They have talked to
me of your devotion to Kara and told me something of Kara's difficult
life. I would not have you give up an hour when she needs you to look
after me."

Tory was thinking of this and of other characteristics of the English
girl, as she sat idly holding her sketch book open in her lap, a
drawing pencil in her hand.

Martha and Edith had gone over into one of the fields to look for
mushrooms. As Edith had spent the greater part of her life on a small
farm, she possessed a good deal of practical outdoor knowledge which
the other Girl Scouts were endeavoring to acquire through books and
teachers.

Particularly was the English Girl Guide interested in learning all
that was possible in one brief summer concerning the American woods
and fields. Now and then they appeared oddly unlike her own green and
fragrant country with its miles of cultivated gardens and carefully
trimmed hedges.

Martha and Edith were especially friendly. Tory was possessed of
sufficient knowledge of the world to appreciate this fact as
indicating an unusual sweetness and poise upon the part of their
English visitor.

Obviously Edith Linder came of simple people. Her father and mother
had been poor farmers and were now working in a factory in West