other friends for a few moments,
and they had walked to the edge of the group of pines not far from the
foot of Sunrise Hill. It was almost sunset, for no one had thought of
going home after the late luncheon was over.

Betty glanced about her rather wistfully. This particular bit of
country was dearer to her than any place in the world except her old
home and yet she was leaving it for an unknown land, to be away she
could not tell how long.

"Miss Ashton," Anthony began, "there will probably be a good many
changes in people and things before you come home again. And I am
hoping with all my strength that of the greatest changes will have
taken place in me. I mean that by that time you need not be ashamed of
having befriended me. It is pretty hard sometimes to climb a hill
along with other people when you have started so much nearer the bottom
than they have. But I feel now that I have made at least a fair start.
Judge Maynard told me yesterday that he believed I meant business and
that he would teach me all the law he knew and that he would see that I
wasn't far behind the fellows at the law schools when the time came for
my examinations."

Betty's face glowed with interest and enthusiasm and she gave her two
hands to the young man with the same friendliness which she had used in
his first call upon her.

"I am so glad, so glad!" she answered. "But please don't speak of my
feeling ashamed of you ever again. I know I was rather horrid to you
once and that afterwards you saved my life, or what perhaps means more
than one's life. Suppose we promise to repay our debts to each other
in some entirely new way when we meet after my return." Betty made her
idle speech with no special meaning attached to it. And although
Anthony agreed in much the same manner, it was possibly fortunate that
Betty did not observe his expression as he turned away and walked a few
paces ahead of her, gazing up toward the summit of Sunrise Hill. The
golden disk of the sun was at this instant resting upon it like the
crown of the world. And to Anthony it seemed none too beautiful or too
magnificent a gift to have laid at the feet of a gray-eyed Princess.

Voices were heard calling to them from the cabin, and a short while
after good-nights were said and Sunrise Cabin was once more left to
solitude and memories.

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The next volume of the Camp Fire Girls' Series will be known as "The
Camp