"Second, we must find out where the Graham cottage is and then determine where we want to locate our camp-somewhere in the vicinity of the Graham cottage, of course."
"Let me go out on a scouting expedition to find out where they live," Katherine requested.
"And let me go with her," begged Ruth Hazelton.
"All right," Miss Ladd assented. "I'll commission you two to act as spies to approach the border of the enemy's country and make a map of their fortifications. But whatever you do, don't get caught. Keep your heads, don't do anything foolish or spasmodic, and keep this thing well in mind, that it is far better for you to come back empty handed than to make them suspicious of any ulterior motive on your part."
CHAPTER IX
FURTHER PLANS.
"Now, girls," said Miss Ladd, addressing Katherine and Hazel, "let me hear what your plan is, if you have any. If you haven't any, we must get busy and work one out, for you must not start such an enterprise without having some idea as to how you should go about it. But I will assume that a suggestion must have come to you as to how best to get the first information we want or you would not have volunteered."
"Can't we work out an honor plan as we decide upon our duties and how we are to perform them?" Hazel inquired.
"Certainly," the Guardian replied, "I was going to suggest that very thing. What would you propose, Hazel?"
"Well, something like this," the latter replied: "that each of us be assigned to some specific duty to perform in the work before it, and that we be awarded honors for performing those duties intelligently and successfully."