"Second the motion!" came laughingly from Mollie.
"All in favor—"
"Aye!" came in a joyous chorus, and the little club was thus quickly formed.
CHAPTER III
JEALOUSIES
"What do they find to talk about so often?"
"And so secretly. As soon as any of us other girls come near they begin to speak of the weather—or something like that."
Thus remarked Alice Jallow to Kittie Rossmore a few days after the formation of the Camping and Tramping Club. The question and comments took place in the court of the High School, just before the bell was to ring for the morning session.
"It's all Betty Nelson's doings," declared Alice, who had often tried to make herself more intimate with the quartette of friends, but unsuccessfully. The other girls did not care for these two.
"Yes. Grace, Mollie and Amy will do anything Betty tells them," asserted Kittie.