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
CHAPTER I
A Strange Background
The castle had been built before thefirst known palace in Europe. Itwas fashioned centuries ago insidethe walls of a stone cliff with two taller cliffsrising on either side. Beyond was a breakbetween, allowing a narrow entrance tothe cliff dwelling from the outside. Infront there was a small plateau of rockending in a precipice, which descendedwith a drop of a hundred feet to a newledge, and then came another still deeperfall.
That afternoon a group of four personswere inside the ancient cliff dwelling. Oneof them—a young girl in an odd costumewhich was partly modern and yet suggesting