The elated scouts-to-be eagerly promised everything, and then watched the car drive away. But they felt no envy or regret for they would be traveling the same road a week hence.
“Verny, maybe we ought to be glad we’ve got all the extra furniture now,” ventured Betty, as they climbed the familiar trail and passed by the Royal Suite.
“That’s so, Verny. We can let the new members furnish their hut with the stuff,” said Joan.
“Only they haven’t any hut,” Ruth added.
“They will have to build one, like we did, to pass a test in carpentry,” remarked Julie.
“I think Betty’s suggestion better than the one Ruth made last night—that we chop up the furniture for kindlings,” now spoke the Captain.
“Well, I didn’t really mean that, you know! I only said it when I had to go and collect damp wood for the fire,” admitted Ruth.
That evening as the scouts sat about the camp-fire, Mrs. Vernon remarked: “I wonder if you girls realize how much you have already improved in this one month of camp-life?”
They then began to compare notes.
“Julie isn’t nearly as impulsive as she used to be,” said Betty.