The Girl Scouts' Motor Trip

When Mrs. Hart and the two girls returned to Miss Vaughn’s palacial home, they found the old lady alone. Her nephews, she explained, had gone off on a camping trip, in Milton’s...

They strolled around until they found a restaurant whose sign announced that it was open day and night. When they were seated opposite each other Jack addressed his companion ac...

Re-enforced again with food and supplies, the girls set out upon the road which by this time had become familiar. But they decided not to risk camping in the spot which had prov...

When Florence and Daisy learned that in accordance with Marjorie’s system they were to drive together in the smaller car, they both appeared somewhat distressed. For, of the six...

To most of the girls, who had never been farther west than Wyoming, this state, with its renowned climate and its beautiful scenery, appeared even lovelier than they had picture...

Two weeks after Alice Endicott had received her startling invitation to visit her aunt at the latter’s expense, Doris Harris sat in the living-room of her cozy little Philadelph...

It was with sincere reluctance that Florence and Daisy made their adieus to their new friends; indeed, it seemed almost as if they were willing to abandon their trip to extend t...

As the girls entered the great reception-room where the young men were now waiting for them, it would not have been difficult for an outsider to read from their faces the fact t...

The night before the party was to start upon the excursion, the rest of the girls arrived at Mrs. Hadley’s. Their hostess had insisted upon entertaining them all at her house, a...

It was the fifteenth of July when the Girl Scouts of Pansy Troop left the town of Rawlins, in Wyoming, and struck out towards the desert. All had been going well since their enc...

For the next few days everything went serenely. The weather was fine, and the scenery beautiful; with the exception of one thunderstorm and the spoiling of some rather good food...

When the Girl Scouts went to sleep that night, they had every intention of making the usual start at eight o’clock in the morning. Yet Mrs. Remington did not feel justified in a...

Marjorie Wilkinson and Lily Andrews sauntered down the hall of the dormitory towards their rooms, humming tunes and dragging their hockey sticks along the floor behind them. The...

The servant who admitted the Girl Scouts that night to the home of Miss Emeline Vaughn did not need to ask who the visitors were. He led them immediately to the drawing-room, wh...

The weary monotony of the ride across the desert was to be broken; the Girl Scouts had decided to use one of their surplus days at Salt Lake City. They wanted to get more than a...

If talking about the summer’s excursion could have hastened the date of the event, the weeks would have passed in rapid succession, for the Girl Scouts never grew tired of discu...

As Marjorie dressed for dinner that evening, she had a premonition that something unpleasant was about to happen. She had not felt comfortable in this house since her arrival; s...

As the Girl Scouts entered the dining-room of their hotel the following day they looked anything but jubilant. The trip through the desert loomed up before them, with its tediou...

When the bright red car passed the girls for the second time since their encampment, they one and all stopped eating to watch it until it was out of sight. Alice Endicott was th...

As soon as the girls left the dining-room they one and all made excuses to go to their own apartments. With the exception of Daisy and Florence, whom Marjorie had informed befor...

When the picnicers returned to Miss Vaughn’s they found Ethel and Marjorie waiting for them on the porch. Lily rushed impetuously towards her chum, anxious to find out immediate...

After the girls left the restaurant on the eve of their return trip, John and Jack went back to their table and smoked a while in silence. Both had been surprised by the boldnes...

The dinner party that evening was the most pleasant occasion of both of the scouts’ visits at Miss Vaughn’s home; now all the disturbing elements, all the distasteful companions...