The Camp Fire Girls Across the Seas
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Vandercook Margaret. The Camp Fire Girls Across the Seas
CHAPTER I. Two Years Later
CHAPTER II. The Wheel Revolves
CHAPTER III. Farewells
CHAPTER IV. Unter den Linden
CHAPTER V. Changes
CHAPTER VI. A Cosmopolitan Company
CHAPTER VII. Das Rheingold
CHAPTER VIII. Other Scenes
CHAPTER IX. The Meeting
CHAPTER X. An Adventure
CHAPTER XI. And Its Consequences
CHAPTER XII. The Uncertain Future
CHAPTER XIII. Richard Ashton
CHAPTER XIV. Betty's Strange Disappearance
CHAPTER XV. The Finding of Brunhilde
CHAPTER XVI. A Heart-to-Heart Talk
CHAPTER XVII. The Day Before Esther's Début
CHAPTER XVIII. That Night
CHAPTER XIX. Tea at the Castle
CHAPTER XX. Esther and Dick
CHAPTER XXI. Sunrise Cabin
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It was midnight, yet Polly O'Neill had not gotten into bed.
Instead she sat before a tiny, dying fire in her own bedroom with her hands clasped about her knees and her black hair hanging gypsy-fashion over her crimson dressing gown. Mollie had gone to her own room several hours before. In a moment there was a light knock at the door and Polly had scarcely turned her head when her mother stood beside her.
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"Dear, you were mistaken when you came in and found me awake," Polly explained, "in supposing that I was thinking of my own disappointment in not being allowed to make the journey with Miss Adams or feeling hurt or angry with you because you decided against it. Really, I never dreamed in the first place that you would be willing. Still, I was thinking of asking you to let me break my word to you after all! You said that I was to stay here in Woodford for three years, and yet I want you to let me go away somewhere very soon. I don't care where, any place will do."
Now for the first time since the beginning of their conversation Mrs. Wharton appeared mystified and deeply hurt.
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