The Camp Fire Girls Behind the Lines
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Vandercook Margaret. The Camp Fire Girls Behind the Lines
CHAPTER I "El Camino Real"
CHAPTER II. The Land of Romance
CHAPTER III. The Call to Service
CHAPTER IV. The Camp and Temperamental Excursions
CHAPTER V. Abalone Shells
CHAPTER VI "My Own Will Come to Me"
CHAPTER VII. The Sacrifice of Youth
CHAPTER VIII. Felipe
CHAPTER IX. The Cantonment
CHAPTER X. Plans
CHAPTER XI. The Dance
CHAPTER XII "As You Like It"
CHAPTER XIII. Human Psychology
CHAPTER XIV. The Night of the Play
CHAPTER XV "I Will Marry You, if Ever I Marry Woman"
CHAPTER XVI. Gerry's Opportunity
CHAPTER XVII. Folly and Courage
CHAPTER XVIII. The Summons
CHAPTER XIX. Plans for the Future
CHAPTER XX. Bitter Waters
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Two weeks later two women were walking up and down a garden path in the moonlight.
Across from them stood a long, low adobe house of a single story. The veranda, extending from one end to the other, was so thickly covered with a flowering vine that even in the moonlight one could get the reflection of its brilliant color. The air was scented with the fragrant perfume of roses and the blossoms of orange and lemon trees. From behind the soft shading of the vine across the road came the brilliant twanging of a guitar and a mandolin. Two voices were singing a Spanish love song.
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Then, almost at the same instant, Mrs. Burton and Mrs. Webster discovered the Camp Fire girls.
Beyond the enclosed space of the old mission lay a broad piece of open ground. Over it tonight poured the unbroken radiance of the moon. In time long past this ground had been devoted to the use of the Indians who were being taught Christianity and the habits of civilization by the Spanish fathers. In those days this ground was encircled by a row of Indian huts. One part was set apart for the Indian women and girls, and here the Indian maiden remained in seclusion until her wedding day.
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