“Ah there, girls! How are you?”—Page [11].


THE
LIBERTY GIRL
BY
RENA I. HALSEY
Author of “Blue Robin, the Girl Pioneer”
and “America’s Daughter”
ILLUSTRATED BY NANA FRENCH BICKFORD

BOSTON
LOTHROP, LEE & SHEPARD CO.


Published, August, 1919
Copyright, 1919
By Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Co.


All rights reserved


THE LIBERTY GIRL
Norwood Press
BERWICK & SMITH CO.
NORWOOD, MASS.
U. S. A.


INSCRIBED,
WITH DEEP APPRECIATION,
TO
THE SONS OF LIBERTY,—
ALL THOSE SOLDIERS, SEAMEN, AND AIRMEN,
WHO HAVE HEROICALLY GIVEN OF
THEIR BEST FOR THE
BROTHERHOOD
OF MAN


CONTENTS

CHAPTERPAGE
I“God Speed You”[11]
IIGiving Her Best[28]
IIIThe Liberty Girls[46]
IVThe Liberty Garden[60]
VThe Liberty Pageant[73]
VIThe Strange Letter[89]
VIIThe Visit to Camp Mills[106]
VIIISeven Pillars[121]
IXThe Little Old Lady in the Red House[133]
XThe Sweet-Pea Ladies[147]
XIThe Ride Through the Notch[164]
XIINathalie’s Liberty Boys[179]
XIII“The Mountains with the Snowy Foreheads”[194]
XIV“Sons of Liberty”[211]
XVThe Gallery of the Gods[222]
XVIButternut Lodge[238]
XVIIThe Cabin on the Mountain[256]
XVIIIThe Liberty Cheer[275]
XIX“The White Comrade”[288]
XXThe Liberty Tea[302]
XXIThe Funnies[322]
XXIIThe Man in the Woods[334]
XXIIIA Mystery Solved[348]
XXIVThe Winner of the Prize[362]

ILLUSTRATIONS

“Ah there, girls! How are you?” (Page 11)[Frontispiece]
FACING PAGE
“My name is Liberty,
My throne is Law”
[76]
“Is that your dog? Oh, I love dogs!”[184]
The girl found herself gazing into the sun-tanned face of a young man in khaki[232]
Nathalie bent over in anxious solicitude[260]
“Oh, it is Philip, my son!”[376]