"My dear," she said, "the best I have ought not to be good enough for you. It's little enough for me to take you, and I should like to do so without having your father pay me a penny."
So it was all arranged. In November, Nora was to become an inmate of the
Hollister household.
Ethel had made up her mind to give the girl her room, she taking one on the top floor.
"I would gladly sleep on bare boards for her," she said to her mother,—"the brave girl to whom I have been so unjust. I'm glad she's coming. I'll devote all my extra time to her happiness."
CHAPTER XI
BREAKING UP OF CAMP AND A SURPRISE
The time had arrived for the girls to separate. The Scouts came up and carried Nannie off. She had become a great favorite. As Patty expressed it, Nannie was a comfortable visitor because she seemed to "belong." She made no fuss and adapted herself to their ways.
She promised to return the following summer and Harvey pronounced their camp as fine as any place they might select.
"So there's no reason why we boys should not come back, too; but you must let us entertain you Camp Fire girls next year. It's been all on your side this."
So they all went to the train to see them off, and people crowded around as though they might be a circus troupe, staring curiously at them and making remarks.