Vandercook Margaret. The Camp Fire Girls in After Years
CHAPTER I. The Inaugural Ball
CHAPTER II. New Names for Old Acquaintances
CHAPTER III. Idle Suspicion
CHAPTER IV. Ties from Other Days
CHAPTER V. Something Unexpected
CHAPTER VI. The First Disillusion
CHAPTER VII. A New Interest
CHAPTER VIII "Bobbin"
CHAPTER IX. Back in New Hampshire
CHAPTER X. Loneliness
CHAPTER XI. A Meeting and an Explanation
CHAPTER XII. The Way Home
CHAPTER XIII "A Little Rift Within the Lute"
CHAPTER XIV. Suspicion
CHAPTER XV. Waiting to Find Out
CHAPTER XVI. A Talk That Was Not an Explanation
CHAPTER XVII. Christmas
CHAPTER XVIII. The Stupidity of Men
CHAPTER XIX. A Cry in the Night
CHAPTER XX. The Discovery
CHAPTER XXI. Once More in Concord
CHAPTER XXII. Things Are Cleared Up
CHAPTER XXIII. Finis
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THERE was a shimmer of silver and blue on the stairs and then the man with his eyes upturned saw his wife moving toward him in a kind of cloud.
The next moment with a laugh of mingled embarrassment and pleasure Betty Graham put up her hand, covering her husband's eyes.
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However, after a number of love affairs, to her friends' surprise Meg had married a man as unlike her in taste and disposition as one could well imagine. He was a worldly, fashionable man, supposed to be wealthy. Anyhow, he and Meg lived in a handsome house, owned a motor car and entertained a great deal. They had no children, and perhaps this was the reason why Meg did not look altogether happy. Sometimes her old friends had wondered if there could be other reasons, for Meg had always been a warm-hearted, impetuous girl, careless of fashions and indifferent to conventions, and now she was always dressed in clothes of the latest design and at least appeared like a fashionable woman.
Nevertheless Meg had always been more easily influenced than any other of the Camp Fire girls, hating to oppose the wishes of any one near to her heart. Her husband, Jack Emmet, was an intimate friend of her adored brother John. He and Meg made an attractive couple, for although Mr. Emmet was not handsome, he was tall and had a slender, correct figure and sharply cut features with light blue eyes and brown hair. Meg's costume was quite as beautiful as Betty's, a soft rose silk and chiffon, and her golden hair was fastened with a small rope of pearls.
