u want to
call it," said Mollie, with a laugh. "When Andy heard we were coming
down this way he asked if he couldn't come with us. He says he is
going to enlist. He isn't going to wait to be drafted. He said he'd
sort of look after us on our way down."

"But it's been the other way about!" laughed Alice. "We've had to
watch him all the while. He was always hopping about, talking to
strangers, and every time the train stopped at a station longer than
a minute he'd get off, and we'd be in a fix for fear he'd be left. But
he's here, thank goodness!"

"Going to enlist!" cried Ned. "Why, he's too _small_."

"That's what they told him back in Cresville when he tried it,"
remarked Alice. "But we must give Andy credit for being a determined
little chap. He's sixteen, and he says lots of boys of sixteen have
gone in, and he's going. He said if the recruiting officer at home
wouldn't take him one here at camp might. So he came with us, and I
believe he's going to ask you boys to use your influence to get him
into the army."

"A heap of influence we have!" laughed Ned. "Privates--with Jerry just
made corporal."

"Well, Andy was very nice to us on the way down," said Helen, "so
please do all you can for him."

"We will!" promised Jerry. "And now tell us about yourselves, and how
all the folks are at home. Oh, but it's great to see you again!"

Then followed a talk until it was time for the three chums to report
for drill duty.

"What are you girls going to do this evening?" asked Bob.

The girls looked at one another.

"Oh, just sit around, I suppose," remarked Mollie.

"No, you're not!" cried Jerry. "There's a dance in town--a really nice
place--and we've been wishing for some girls to come along to help us
out. It's under the auspices of the local Y. W. C. A. And if we can
get off----"

"Oh, we'll get off all right!" broke in Ned eagerly.

"If worst comes to worst, we'll have the professor ask the colonel on
our behalf. The prof seems to pull a pretty good stroke with the C. O.
So a dance it is to be!" declared Bob.

And a dance it was. The boys received permission to remain away from
camp until midnight, passes being issued to them, and they at once
proceeded to "doll up," as Bob expressed it.

A joyous week followed, for the girls were to remain in the vicinity
of Camp Dixton, at Mollie's aunt's house for some time, and they asked
nothing better than to have the company of the three chums as often as
it mig