nswer and they were learning from each other.

The Girl Scouts of the Eagle's Wing had worked at their scouting
during the past winter with pleasure and faith, but occasional
meetings could not bring the results these past few magical weeks at
camp had accomplished.

All day long they were outdoors, at night the tent flaps were
oftentimes left open for a better view of the sky and the feel of the
wind.

All their own work had they undertaken and life had never appeared
more practical, simple and delightful.

Then like a cloud darkening the serenity of their summer had come the
news of Katherine Moore's accident with its unexpected, tragic result.

Tory Drew sighed.

"You are probably right, Martha. I have been told often enough by Aunt
Victoria and sometimes by Kara herself that I have too great an
opinion of my own judgment, when in reality my judgment isn't very
good.

"Yet this time I simply can't feel that I am mistaken. Kara will be
happier here at camp with us than at the Gray House or in a sanitarium.
We all understand her and will do anything in the world to make her
happier. Dr. McClain says that Kara's state of mind worries him a great
deal. Yet how can it be different? Surely we can make her physically
comfortable in the evergreen house and all of us will wish to wait on
her. I--"

Tory hesitated and could not go on.

"I agree with you entirely, Tory," Margaret Hale answered
sympathetically. Tory's Patrol leader, a dignified girl of gentle
breeding, she was not the most gifted member of the Patrol, yet
possessed the greatest personal influence. One could always trust to
Margaret's sense of justice. She was never prejudiced and never
unfair.

"I feel as Tory does. If there is nothing the doctors can do for Kara
at present, save to watch her carefully, she had far better be here
with us. I know they will do everything that is possible at the Gray
House; I know too that Mr. Fenton has offered to pay Kara's expenses
should the doctors decide she had best go to a sanitarium. Yet will
either of these places alter Kara's state of mind?

"Since Tory told us of her talk with Kara I have scarcely been able to
think of anything else. Kara, with her optimism and humor vanished;
Kara, hard and bitter and wretched! It seems so incredible! Why, she
has always faced her difficult existence with such courage. When one
thinks of Kara it is to recall the humorous expression of her eyes,
the laughter that always