The Camp Fire Girls in Glorious France

“Can’t You Guess at Least Something of My Reason?”
BY MARGARET VANDERCOOK Author of “The Ranch Girls” Series, “The Red Cross Girls” Series, etc.
ILLUSTRATED
PHILADELPHIA THE JOHN C. WINSTON CO. PUBLISHERS
Copyright 1919, by The John C. Winston Company
One afternoon in March, the windows of an old French farmhouse stood open, the curtains blowing in the breeze like white flags of truce, while from indoors came the murmur of a number of voices, girls’ voices, gay and animated and speaking in English, not French.
The next moment there was a brief silence; afterwards one of them began singing, with an odd foreign accent, a song strange to hear in this French countryside, the song of an American camp fire:
“The fire of our camp is burning,
Sing sweet, sing low, sing far,
From the long, long trail returning
Led by the evening star.
“Bright is our fireside’s glowing,