By A. L. BURT COMPANY
Made in “U. S. A.”
THE GIRL SCOUTS’ CAPTAIN
CHAPTER I.
CANDIDATES.
Five spick-and-span roadsters, of the same model, of the same year, were parked in a line to the side of the main entrance to Turner College, awaiting their owners’ wishes. It was almost dark, and their lights had not been turned on, but the illumination from the college windows made them clearly visible. The days were growing so short that soon the girls would be obliged to put the cars away before supper.
Out of the wide open doorway five figures suddenly appeared, and with arms linked together slowly descended the steps. They wore light summer dresses and gay sweaters; their heads were still bobbed; only one of them displayed a “shingle.” It was the one time of the day that these girls still saved for each other, “in memory,” as Alice Endicott put it, “of the senior patrol of Pansy Troop of Girl Scouts.”
“Without any prejudice,” remarked Florence Evans, a junior at the college, “wouldn’t you pick out my car for the one in the best condition?”
“Not at all!” returned Lily Andrews, the senior who rejoiced in the “shingle bob”; “mine’s had the best care of any of them—and it looks it!”