LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
| How good bacon tasted when you broiled it yourself on a forked stick | [Frontispiece] |
| Laura took the new cousin up to her room | [26] |
| Cutting the wiry brown stems in the fern-filled glade. | [140] |
| “I’m getting dinner all by myself” | [199] |
THE CAMERONS OF HIGHBORO
THE CAMERONS OF HIGHBORO
CHAPTER I
ELLIOTT PLANS AND FATE DISPOSES
Now and then the accustomed world turns a somersault; one day it faces you with familiar features, the next it wears a quite unrecognizable countenance. The experience is, of course, nothing new, though it is to be doubted whether it was ever staged so dramatically and on so vast a scale as during the past four years. And no one to whom it happens is ever the same afterward.