All assented, so Zan exclaimed, "Gee, that was easy!"
"Oh, Zan, Zan! You are absolutely hopeless!" sighed the Guide, while all the girls laughed.
"Now what's the matter?" wondered Zan.
"Don't you know? You win a merit one moment and deserve a demerit the next! You are so accustomed to slang that you never realise when you use it!" said Miss Miller.
"Dear me! I suppose I shall be tottering in old age before I ever can outgrow the habit!" sighed Zan.
"Not tottering, Zan, but doddering!" laughed Jane.
While the girls prepared dinner on the lawn Miss Miller was engaged in making an experiment. After dinner she invited the girls to the cool porch to see what she had done.
"Before we return to camp, I am going to show you a very interesting test in chemistry. One that will cause you to wonder how people who know the action of this poison can deliberately imbibe it and consider it worth all of their manhood, womanhood, and honour!"
On the porch the girls found that Miss Miller had visited the doctor's little office where he kept his chemicals and apparatus. A few test tubes and a glass retort stood on the table by the side of some medical bottles.