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[Illustration: Campfire Girls’ Outing]
CAMPFIRE GIRLS’ OUTING;
Or,
Ethel Hollister’s Second Summer in Camp
by
STELLA M. FRANCIS
[Illustration: Publisher’s Logo]
M. A. Donohue & Co.
Chicago New York
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CAMPFIRE GIRLS’ SERIES
CAMPFIRE GIRLS IN THE ALLEGHANY MOUNTAINS; or, A Christmas Success
Against Odds.
CAMPFIRE GIRLS IN THE COUNTRY; or, The Secret Aunt Hannah Forgot.
CAMPFIRE GIRLS’ TRIP UP THE RIVER; or, Ethel Hollister’s First Lesson.
CAMPFIRE GIRLS’ OUTING; or, Ethel Hollister’s Second Summer in Camp.
CAMPFIRE GIRLS ON A HIKE; or, Lost in the Great North Woods.
CAMPFIRE GIRLS AT TWIN LAKES; or, The Quest of a Summer Vacation.
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Copyright
1918
M. A. Donohue & Company
Made in U. S. A.
CONTENTS
Chapter Page
SYNOPSIS OF PRECEDING BOOK 7
I -ETHEL’S PLANS 25
II -ETHEL ENTERS COLLEGE 31
III -ETHEL AND HARVEY BECOME FIRM FRIENDS 40
IV -ETHEL’S SECOND TRIP 46
V -CAMP AGAIN 53
VI -UNCLE JOHN’S 60
VII -MRS. HOLLISTER’S VISIT TO CAMP 67
VIII -THE SCOUTS ARRIVE 72
IX -NORA GIVES SERVICE 79
X -A HEROINE 94
XI -BREAKING UP OF CAMP AND A SURPRISE 101
XII -MATTIE MAKES GOOD 112
XIII -JUDGE SANDS AND KATE MARRY 118
XIV -A BIRTHDAY PRESENT 121
XV -MRS. HOLLISTER ENTERTAINS 126
XVI -CHRISTMAS EVE 133
XVII -CHRISTMAS DAY 141
XVIII -ANOTHER SURPRISE 147
XIX -MR. CASEY BUYS A HOUSE 153
XX -ARCHIBALD’S CHANGE FOR THE BETTER 158
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SYNOPSIS OF PRECEDING BOOK
Ethel would have never become a Camp Fire Girl excepting for her
great-aunt Susan.
Susan Carpenter was her Grandmother Hollister’s only sister, living in
Akron, Ohio. Her family consisted of Mr. Thomas Harper and herself.
Tom’s parents had been her friends, and when they were taken Aunt Susan
legally adopted him and his little brother Fred, but the younger one
died before graduating, while Tom went through college and was now a
rising young lawyer.
Aunt Susan Carpenter was a philanthropist. At the time of her adopting
the boys she was reputed to be a millionaire. She gave her beautiful
home to the city for an Asylum for partially insane people and endowed
it with fifty thousand dollars, after which the leading men in town
raised fifty thousand more, thereby making it self-supporting. She was
also on the board of managers of many other charities, and was adored by
her townspeople.
Four years previous to her visit to New York, she had lost every penny
of her immense fortune—lost it through the rascality of a large and well
advertised concern calling itself the “Great Western Cereal Company.”
The whole thing was a rotten affair from the first and was floated by
ten unscrupulous men who, after obtaining all the money they could, fled
from the country before the exposure came; that is, save three, one of
whom was arrested while the other two committed suicide. Aunt Susan
wrote nothing of it to her sister lest it should worry her, and as she
had never met her nephew’s family in New York, and they knowing no one
in Akron, they were in ignorance of the change in Aunt Susan’s affairs
and still thought her a wealthy woman.
Mrs. Archibald Hollister—Ethel’s mother—was worldly and ambitious; not
so much for herself as for her daughter. Grandmother Hollister, whose
husband had belonged to one of New York’s oldest families, owned the
house in which they lived, free and clear. It was an old-fashioned
brown-stone affair near Riverside Drive. Archibald, her son, paid the
taxes in lieu of rent, but as his salary was only three thousand a year
it was extremely difficult to make both ends meet, and Grandmother had
no money save what was in the house. But Mrs. Archie was clever. She
could make a dollar do the work of five. With her own hands she would
fashion for Ethel the most dainty and up-to-date gowns, wraps, hats,
etc., imaginable.
The Hollisters kept but one maid. She always appeared trim and tidy, yet
she did the entire housework. Upon the days that Mrs. Archie gave bridge
parties or afternoon teas for Ethel’s young friends, she hired two extra
girls who had been so perfectly trained that the guests never once
doubted but that they were part of the household—all owing to Mrs.
Archie’s clever management.
Ethel attended a fashionable school costing her father more money than
he could afford, but she met there the very best class of girls and
really formed for herself the most desirable acquaintances. Her mother
scrimped and saved in every way possible, while the guests who came to
the old-fashioned house with its handsome antique furniture and
portraits were wont to declare that “the Hollisters were certainly
aristocratic and of blue blood, as their house showed it—so severe and
yet elegant.” So Mrs. Archie felt that the Hollister name alone should
procure for Ethel a monied husband, and she held it constantly before
the girl. She must associate only with those in the “upper circle,” and
marry a man who could give her a “fine establishment.”
Among Ethel’s school friends was a girl—Nannie Bigelow by name—of whom
she was very fond. Nannie had a brother in Yale whom she (Ethel)
disliked. He was a member of the ultra fashionable set and was desirous
of making a wealthy match, as his family as well had little but their
name. One of his sisters had married a titled man and lived abroad. It
was Mrs. Hollister’s ambition to have Ethel like Harvey Bigelow,
although she knew that he had as little money as she. She tried to
adjust things satisfactorily, and being a clever woman she hit upon a
plan which we shall reveal later. Of course, the girl was only sixteen
and must first graduate. Ethel, who had imbibed many of her mother’s
fallacies, did not openly rebel. She was quite a little snob in her way,
nor did she realize what the family daily sacrificed for her, although
her heart smote her when she saw how her father was aging, for she
adored him; nor were her eyes opened until after she had joined the Camp
Fire.
Grandmother Hollister had two sons, John and Archie. Kate Hollister was
the daughter of the former. They lived in Columbus, Ohio, and Kate had
been invited to visit her New York relatives. She was a tall, handsome
girl much older than Ethel, for she was over thirty. Kate was the
Guardian of a company of eight Camp Fire Girls called the “Ohio.” She
had told her grandmother and Ethel all about the new movement one
evening, and Ethel who loved the romantic side of camping out was crazy
to have Kate obtain permission from her mother to let her join, as her
father had said that she might visit Columbus that coming summer. But
lo! when she spoke to Mrs. Archie—or Aunt Bella—about it she was
politely snubbed. When Kate tried to explain how wonderful was the
organization and what benefit a girl—especially a delicate girl like
Ethel—could derive from belonging, the lady sneered and likened it to
the Salvation Army and forbade her guest from mentioning it to the girl
or even speaking of it in her presence. But alas! the deed had been done
and Ethel knew of it; but while in New York Kate had refrained from
again touching on the subject. At that time an aunt of one of Ethel’s
schoolmates had formed a company and many of the swell set had joined.
Ethel longed to belong but dared not offend her mother.
Now for Mrs. Hollister’s plan. She suddenly conceived the idea of
inviting Aunt Susan on for a visit, supposedly to give Grandmother a
chance to see her only sister once more, but in reality to have Ethel
ingratiate herself with the old lady, thereby causing her to leave the
girl the bulk of her fortune. Ethel read between the lines and at first
refused, but after listening to her mother for a while and thinking
perhaps she was right, she allowed herself to promise to further the
plan.
Aunt Susan was a woman with fine eyes and teeth, as well as a charming
manner, but her style of dressing dated back to the eighties—full
skirts, flat hats with strings, beaded plush dolmans, etc. Ethel was
ashamed to be seen with her but she had promised to help and she had to
do her share. In the meanwhile her mother had spread the report that
Aunt Susan was a millionaire and that Ethel was to have her fortune at
her death. Everyone fell in love with Aunt Susan and ascribed her
peculiar dressing to the eccentricities of a wealthy woman.
Mrs. Hollister’s joy knew no bounds when Aunt Susan invited Ethel to
return with her to Akron. Her scheme was beginning to work. Ethel was a
lovely girl. Aunt Susan would grow fond of her and the fortune was
assured. Besides, as it would cost a small fortune to take Ethel to a
fashionable summer resort, Mrs. Archie could save money for the winter.
But, accompanying the invitation, Aunt Susan requested that during July
and August, Ethel might join her other grand niece’s “Camp Fires” and
live in the woods. “It will be the making of your girl,” she added, “as
now she looks thin and peaked.”
At first Mrs. Archie indignantly refused. She almost felt that she had
been trapped, but Aunt Susan met every objection and even told the lady
that she feared she was shallow and an unnatural mother to refuse to
consider her daughter’s health. Mrs. Archie dared not let Aunt Susan
know that she considered the whole organization conspicuous and common,
nor that she did not wish Ethel to learn to do the work of a servant,
etc., or run the risk of meeting girls of humble origin. So after some
sharp rebukes administered to her by the old lady on the sin of
worldliness and the fact that she was not doing a mother’s duty by her
daughter, she consented, mentally declaring that she would see that
Ethel should forget all about it on her return.
While visiting Aunt Susan and living in Camp in a truthful atmosphere
Ethel Hollister began to change. She saw how the old lady was beloved.
She heard on every side of the good she had done, and when one day Aunt
Susan told her that she had been a wife and mother, and what she had
suffered at the hands of a brutal husband, she was spellbound. For years
she had been deserted, but when one day he was supposed to be dying she
was sent for that he might beg her forgiveness. She went and found that
for four years he had been stone blind and that he had sunk so low that
she shrank from the squalid house in which he was living. She took him
away and stayed with him until his death, making the last days of his
life more bearable.
As the girl listened and thought of the old lady’s goodness and how she
was visiting her and making over her old gowns, hats, etc., into
fashionable ones to ingratiate herself for an object she saw herself as
she was—a hypocrite—and she fell on her knees to Aunt Susan confessing
everything and begging her forgiveness, whereupon the old lady took her
in her arms and told her that she knew everything—that Grandmother and
she had made up their minds that Ethel might lose her worldliness under
different environments. Then she told her of the loss of her fortune and
the girl was glad, saying as she kissed her, “Now you know that I love
you for yourself, Aunt Susan.”
Ethel liked Tom Harper. He was a fine young man. He supported Aunt Susan
and gave her a liberal allowance but she banked nearly all of it, as she
told Ethel “to have something at her death to leave to those whom she
loved.”
After visiting her Uncle John’s family, whom she liked at once, Kate,
Ethel, and the eight girls started for Camp. It was situated in a
stretch of woods on the banks of the Muskingum river. One of the
girls—Patty Sands—became Ethel’s chum. She was motherless and the only
child of Judge Sands, ex-congressman of Ohio, and greatly respected. The
rest of the girls were also congenial save two—one a Mattie Hastings,
whom Ethel avoided saying that her eyes were too close together.
Mattie’s parents were poor people but she was one of Kate’s Sunday
School class and has asked to be allowed to join the “Ohios.” The other
girl was a large, raw-boned Irish girl, or rather of Irish parentage.
Her voice was shrill and unpleasant, while her hair was black and her
eyes dark blue and lovely, her face was covered with freckles and she
dressed loudly and in bad taste. Pat Casey—her father—was one of the
wealthiest men in town. He was a contractor and an honest, respectable
man, but his wife was a pusher, trying to bluff her way into society.
She was ignorant and disagreeable. People refused to receive her. Nora
had been only half educated at a convent. Mrs. Casey, hearing of the
Camp Fire Girls, bethought herself that it would be an opening for
Honora, so she boldly called upon Miss Kate and asked—yes, begged—that
Nora might belong; and Kate, who was kind-hearted, received the girl to
the great joy of Mrs. Pat. Having been born in the old country, both
parents spoke with a brogue. Occasionally, from association, Nora would
use it; then she would stop suddenly, turn red, and speak perfect
English. Ethel disliked her even more than she did Mattie.
One day as she was helping wash dishes she lost a valuable diamond ring.
It had been her Grandmother’s engagement ring and she was heartbroken.
Although they searched everywhere no trace of it could they find, but as
they were walking up the hill a week or so afterwards they thought they
saw Mattie Hastings through the trees. They called as a jest, “We’ve
seen you and you’re discovered—come out!” Whereupon someone shrieked,
and proceeding to the spot they found Mattie lying upon the ground. She
had walked in the sun and had started to run and had fallen over some
stumps. Instantly they saw that she had been prostrated by the heat, and
having recently studied “First aid to the injured” they proceeded to
remove her blouse and open her corset, when lo! there upon a silver
chain around her neck was not only Ethel Hollister’s ring but another
belonging to Honora Casey. She had missed it a few days after Ethel had
lost hers, but she wisely refrained from speaking of it to anyone but
Patty Sands, adding, “Shure, it would only be afther worryin’ Miss Kate,
and it might turn up. I’ll bide me time.”
Mattie, upon recovering consciousness and seeing that her secret had
been discovered handed the rings to Ethel saying that she should kill
herself. The girls, seeing that she was desperate, replied that as one
of their “seven laws” was to “render service,” if she would confess why
she had taken the rings they would shield her. Overjoyed, the girl did
so. She told everything. She had done it for her young sister who had
dislocation of the spine, whereby she might, bey converting them into
money, have the child placed in the Cripples Hospital and treated. A
physician had assured her that the case was not incurable, and for two
hundred dollars the child could be watched and nursed, and eventually
her spine might be straightened. She said that since the accident that
had made the child as she was, her mother had become a drug fiend. One
evening her cousin—a young man who was a chauffeur—invited her mother to
join a party and they took a joy ride. On their way home, being under
the influence of wine, they knocked down and ran over a child near Mrs.
Hasting’s house. Letting her out, they sped quickly on for fear of
arrest. Upon discovering that it was her own child, and what was worse,
that from that night she was to be a hopeless cripple, the mother nearly
went insane. Still she kept her secret and no one suspected that she had
been one of the parties in the car. Her remorse drove her to take the
drug. Under its influence she told Mattie. At that time the girl was
earning six dollars a week, three of which she was paying to her mother,
supposing her to be buying food for the invalid. When she discovered the
truth she threatened her with exposure and tried to buy little Mollie
nourishing delicacies herself, but three dollars would barely pay for
the necessities of life, and she became discouraged and desperate. In
the store she saw a customer drop her purse. She placed her foot upon it
and when the lady had gone she picked it up. The purse contained forty
dollars and some cards, etc. After depositing thirty-five dollars in the
bank she took five and bought the child fruit, books, and ice cream. It
seemed to put new life into Mollie. She took small articles from time to
time, and pretending that they had been given her she sold them. Her
remorse was terrible. She was unhappy. If only she could work harder and
earn more. At that time she heard of the Camp Fire Girls—of the useful
and wonderful things that they learned so that in time they became
competent to demand and receive large salaries. She loved Miss Kate and
asked her if she might join. Kate assented, and it was then that the
girls first met her. Gradually the desire to collect the two hundred
dollars for Mollie came back, and with it the temptation to steal. She
took money from every girl. She was even willing, after placing Mollie
in the Hospital, to go to prison, if only the child could be cured. She
felt that some day she would be caught with the goods. She adored Miss
Kate and took nothing from her. Finally she began taking jewelry to
sell.
This morning she was on her way to find a hiding place for the two rings
and a diamond locket taken from another girl, when she heard Ethel and
Patty call. Then she was sure that they had discovered her secret, and
trying to run away she tripped and lost consciousness. “Now that I have
told you all,” she added, “your father—Judge Sands—will send me up,” and
she sobbed piteously. Her grief was sincere. She had not stolen for
herself. She had been desperate. Pity crept into the hearts of the two
girls and they constituted themselves her friends. They made her replace
the jewelry in Nora’s and Edna’s suit cases. They found the lady’s card
from whom she had taken the purse and had Mattie return the money and
bag with a note withholding her name. They had her draw out the money
obtained from the sale of the purloined articles and return it to the
head of the Department Store saying that the things had been taken and
sold under great provocation for a sick child, enumerating them and the
prices, after which she felt happier, for she knew that the girls would
remain her friends. “Some day,” she said, “I may make good.”
Ethel wrote and got Aunt Susan interested in little Mollie. Being a
manager of a Cripples School that lady at once placed her free of charge
in one of the wards as a boarder and pupil. The resident physician said
that in a year’s time he should send her out cured. Poor Mr. and Mrs.
Hastings were overjoyed, while Mattie’s gratitude knew no way to express
itself. She simply regarded Ethel and Patty with looks of adoration,
while in time they overcame their prejudice, Ethel even kissing her
goodbye.
There had been wrought in Ethel Hollister a great change. Much of her
pride and worldliness had dropped from her. She had gradually become an
earnest believer in truth despising all subterfuges and shams.
Upon her arrival home, Mrs. Hollister, while noting her new and splendid
health, was appalled at the change. From an obedient child, easily
convinced that no matter what her mother said was right, she had become
a girl of great character with ideas of her own. Mrs. Hollister angrily
denounced her mother-in-law and Aunt Susan, saying that it was their
work and that her child, for whom she had slaved all of her life, had
become wilful, stubborn and disobedient. “She even refuses to go into
Society this winter. She talks of taking up low down settlement work.
She’ll end in becoming a suffragette, and standing on a soap box she’ll
address the street rabble, perhaps wearing a large bonnet and standing
beside a kettle holiday time ringing a bell and holding out a
tambourine,—a Salvation Army woman. Oh! what a fool I was to let her go
away from my influence,” and she sobbed,—“to toil and save for her to
make a brilliant match. See the way she rewards me. Why did I bring into
this world such an ungrateful child! It’s all that wretched Camp Fire
business.”
Then Ethel gently put her arm around her mother and told her that only
since she had been a Camp Fire girl had she appreciated how hard she had
worked for her. “I know, Mamma,” she said, “how you and Papa, and even
Grandmamma, have sacrificed for me. I see myself as I have been, (not as
I am now)—a selfish, wicked girl, not even appreciating what you have
done for me, and I am appalled. I am going to do for you now. I am going
to see the roses come back into your cheeks and the wrinkles leave your
pretty face. Uncle John is Papa’s senior by ten years but he looks much
younger—why? Because Papa is bent and worn getting money for me—for us
to make a show on. Everything is sham, Mamma, and let us give it up—let
us keep only friends who care for us ourselves and we shall be happier.
I shall take you up to camp next summer. You can help us so much; you
are so clever and can teach the girls. And as for a grand marriage for
me, I’ll promise never to marry at all unless you approve of the man,
and I may make a better marriage than you dream of. So just let us be
happy and natural and live within our means,” and she took her sobbing
mother in her arms.
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Ethel Hollister’s Second
Summer as a Camp Fire Girl
CHAPTER I
ETHEL’S PLANS
The morning after Ethel had declared herself her mother came up to her
room. She could see that Mrs. Hollister had not slept and her eyes were
red from weeping. Ethel kissed her, saying:
“Mamma, we are going to be very happy together—you and I. I don’t want
to disappoint you, dear, nor would I do so willingly; but I simply can
not live as I’ve been living. Sit down and let us talk.”
Then she told of Aunt Susan,—of her kindness, unselfishness and
self-sacrifice. She told of Mattie and how they had helped her, and of
her Uncle John; of Patty and Judge Sands; and lastly of Kate and what a
wonderful character she was.
“Wait, dear, I want to show you my ceremonial gown,” and she quickly
slipped it on. The girl’s hair was still hanging unbound, having slept
in it that way, and she hooked about it her coronation band. Said her
mother:
“Well, I must say it is becoming. What a Pocahontas you would make in
private theatricals!” she exclaimed with maternal pride. “But then, why
should I speak of theatricals? You’ve given up all such things.”
“Why, Mamma,” laughed Ethel, “I’m not going into a convent. I have given
up nothing but the unreal part of life.”
“I suppose you’ll tell everyone how poor we are, and how I have put you
forward under false colors. Then people will despise me.”
“No, Mamma, I shall not do a thing to put you in any awkward position.
Keep on. Give your teas for me if you wish,—even have the two extra
maids. It costs very little and we have a social time; it cheers
Grandmamma and there’s no need to stop them. But this is what I shall
not do: First I shall tell Harvey Bigelow that Aunt Susan was once a
millionaire but that she lost all of her money. I shall tell of her
wonderful gifts to Akron,—of her charities, and how well she is beloved,
but that I shall inherit no money from her. Harvey will tell his mother
and she’ll spread the news. If people care any the less for us after
hearing it, let them go; but I don’t propose to tell what Papa’s salary
is, or that you—poor dear—sit until morning sewing for me,—a thing that
I’m not going to allow you to do any longer.
“Then I shall give up attending Madam’s. Yes, don’t start. Every bill
Papa pays is a nail in his coffin, I know. Tomorrow I shall go to
Barnard and try to pass an examination, and for one quarter what Madam
charges I can get a sound and solid education, and were Papa to die I
can leave with my teacher’s diploma knowing something that will be of
use to me. I could help support you and Grandmamma. What could I do were
I forced to support myself after leaving Madam’s. Why, an education such
as her girls receive is of no earthly account unless for music or such
accomplishments; but with a degree from Barnard I can earn good money. I
am so glad that I am young and that I shall have a chance. You’ll be
proud of me, Mamma,—just wait and see,” and she kissed her mother
affectionately.
They went down to breakfast. Archibald Hollister listened to his
daughter’s plans. He was proud of her and his face showed it.
“You see, Papa,” continued Ethel, “every penny is spent on me. Do you
and Mamma ever go to a theatre? No. Do you ever take a drive?
Never,—why? Because you can’t spare the money. Now at least we shall be
able to go to the moving picture shows and take Grandmamma. I bet you’d
enjoy it, wouldn’t you, Grandmamma? And, do you know, the best people
go, and a quarter is the highest priced seat.”
The girl chatted on until the postman delivered the mail.
“Oh! a letter from Kate. Let’s see what news she has written,” and she
gave a gasp as she read the first page.
“Poor Mrs. Casey died Saturday from pneumonia. Nora is heartbroken, and
poor Pat Casey acts as though he knew not which way to turn. Nora looks
really refined in black,—almost handsome. She loved Mrs. Casey, who in
spite of her peculiarities was a good wife and mother. Later: Mr. Casey
wishes to take Nora away. He suggested New York, so you may see her,
etc.”
Then Ethel described Honora.
“It is strange but I can never like that girl. There’s something about
her that’s antagonistic to me, and yet when she comes here I must be
polite and ask her to visit me.”
“If she’s in mourning she’ll not expect to meet people,” said Mrs.
Hollister quickly, “nor to go to any places of amusement, thank
heavens.”
“Oh, she’s very generous. Probably she’d invite us, Mamma. Well, poor
Nora, she loved her mother. I’m sorry for her.”
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