Marta had come up close to the older girl and her brother and now surveyed him severely.

“Don’t mind Rob, if he is having a tantrum, Miss Deal. He does now and then, though I must say he has a better disposition than I have. If I were you I would just go away and leave him for a little while. When he gets lonely he is sure to behave better. Come with me, won’t you, and let us see if the Camp Fire party is nearly here.”

Ellen and Marta moved a few steps away. They had not gone far before they heard the old Camp Fire call.

“Wo-he-lo for work, wo-he-lo for health, wo-he-lo for love.”

CHAPTER XI
The Canyon

“There is a song in the canyon below me,

And a song in the pines overhead,—

As the sun creeps down from the snow-line

And startles the deer from its bed;

With mountains of green all around me,