THE
CAMP FIRE GIRLS
AT THE END OF
THE TRAIL

BY
MARGARET VANDERCOOK
Author of “The Ranch Girls” Series,
“The Red Cross Girls” Series, etc.

ILLUSTRATED

PHILADELPHIA
THE JOHN C. WINSTON CO.
PUBLISHERS

Copyright, 1917, by
The John C. Winston Company

CONTENTS

PAGE [I. A Strange Background] 7 [II. White Robes] 22 [III. A New Dawn] 32 [IV. A New Girl] 46 [V. The Patient] 59 [VI. A Wager] 67 [VII. A Study in Temperaments] 78 [VIII. Possibilities] 90 [IX. An Adventure] 103 [X. A Good Samaritan] 116 [XI. The Canyon] 127 [XII. The Man from Above] 139 [XIII. Disillusion] 151 [XIV. Facing the Music] 161 [XV. Expiation] 170 [XVI. The Pine, not the Olive] 190 [XVII. The Passionate Pilgrim] 200 [XVIII. An Appeal] 209 [XIX. The Arrest] 222 [XX. The Grand Canyon] 231

ILLUSTRATIONS

PAGE [“When He Appeared He was Leading, Half Carrying, a Girl who did not Look like a Formidable Intruder.”] Frontispiece [“They Heard the Sound of Low Voices Before Seeing Any One.”] 111 [“With the Rope now about His Own Waist, Howard Brent Crawled Down to Her.”] 143 [“‘I Just Wanted to Thank You,’ She Said.”] 229

The Camp Fire Girls
at the End of the Trail