find to talk a

ther girls come near they begin to speak

the Camping and Tramping Club. The question and comments took place in the cou

tried to make herself more intimate with the quartette of friend

y will do anything Betty t

so popular. She hasn't a

is entirely too wide, and her

id Alice. "I'd rather have a cheap dress, if it was in style

th their heads together! I wonder

w. How can w

quite friendly with Mollie. I'll

. I'm sure they're ge

onder. If they

to be asked!" and

er conversation, and the girls and

the newly-formed Camping and Tramping Club. Every spare moment the four seemed to have s

heir friends and relatives asking if it would be convenient to entertain them. Som

an itinerary'"-Betty had said. "We will know just where we will stop e

to, unless something

ll might be claimed," said Betty

heard a word ye

ere. If that young man is depending on this money to make his fortune, I'm afra

r talk, as it had on that of the rival

to where Spring was already forcing into bloom the flowers, and urging the trees to greater activity, as regards the tender green leaves, there came an

ll of nature manifested itself to them, and the girls and bo

ether, and Betty showed a tentative program she ha

of the girls set down opposite each one, and a rough calcula

t at once," exclaimed Mollie. "A

re was hesitati

y. "Are you ill, Amy?" for the girl looked pal

't seem to want me to go-at least they say

e i

e it almost a

y n

the question were

t night-oh, I dare say it will, be all right, girls. Don't mind me," and Am

d been hushed when she unexpectedly came into the room. And that it had to do with the proposed little trip Amy was sure. Yet Mr. a

, when the four chums had kept to one corner of the school court, eating thei

Alice. "If they're getting up a new society, we

hat Betty Nelson thinks she can run th

out Amy Stonington I don't belie

do you

a se

eaded Kittie. "You know

omi

omi

Jones trying to hear what we're saying," and the two girl

There seemed a tension in the air-as if something was going to snap. Doubtless you have often felt it-a sensation as though pins

e heard-of the pupils in recitations, or of the

e clouds. At such times the nervous girls would jump in their seats, and there would follow hy

Amy was standing up, translating-or trying to translate-a passage from Caesar.

d Miss Greene, the teacher. "That is very good. Y

aid Amy faint

Alice Jallow, in which

istressed. Tears

ing crash so promptly came echoing that nearly every one of the girls start

Amy swayed, and fell ba

tt

Greene. "Girls, keep quiet! So

ho occupied one side of the big r