The Lass of the Silver Sword

Jean Lennox improvised this yell on the spur of the moment, and leaning over the gallery rail shouted it forth at the top of her voice, bringing the eyes of players and spectato...

Invitations in this form were distributed on the next Saturday among the classmates of the hostesses. The cards were enticingly illustrated with water-color sketches by Cecily,—...

There had been two uneasy consciences in the Orioles’ Nest as the minutes went by and Cecily and Jean did not appear. Adela peeped out into the hall and announced: “There go Jea...

Jean’s first act on shutting herself up in her castle was to fling her book across the room. Then she picked it up and tore it into fragments. Busy with destruction, she forgot...

Jean awoke on Sunday morning conscious that she was making a fresh start in her life at Hazelhurst with the real Carol Armstrong for her friend. She found Carol waiting for her...

Early one bright, fresh morning, a fortnight after Commencement, the Albany station was invaded by a troop of girls, laden with a variety of outing gear. Nancy Newcomb and Helen...

A glorious mountain day, clear as crystal, breezy and cool, greeted the girls as they stepped out of their tents next morning. After the merry breakfast in the bungalow, Frances...

Carol and Jean almost forgot their drenched plight in the interest of seeing Camp Hurricane, as the boy who had rescued them headed the canoe for the Hamiltons’ landing. Kneelin...

The second day at Halcyon was celebrated by a picnic at Jasper Falls. After breakfast the girls busied themselves in preparing their luncheon. Jean came out of the kitchen with...

“Come on, then,—let’s make a dash for the pole!” said Jean. Every one was ready to march, and Cecily led the party down the hill into the dense woods at its base to take the tra...

“Girls, put on your bathing suits. It’s so much warmer to-day we can take our morning dip.” Miss Hamersley issued the order from her tent at half-past six, and a few minutes lat...

“Tony’s mad because people are getting onto his breaking the game laws, and he thinks I gave him away. He told me I’d been lying about him. I won’t stand anybody saying that I l...

“I BELIEVE this summer at Halcyon’s going to beat the one I spent in France!” Helen Westover made this assertion, as, ringed about a flat rock, the campers were beginning a beac...

“If your majesty thinks Betty and I are going to let you and Frisky take all the care of Nanno, you’re mightily mistaken,” said Cecily, when the adoption of Nanno Donohoe had be...

The Forest Festival came off a few days after Nanno had become an inmate of Camp Huairarwee. The letters appealing for contributions had been answered by the arrival of mysterio...

Of the Stella Olympia Relief Fund it was decided to place $65 in the savings bank. The morning after the Festival the campers took Limpy the remaining ten, the sum of a doctor’s...

Cecily and Betty both flew. Douglas was out of sight and on the way to the livery-stable with the buckboard by the time they reached the road, but there they met Frances, Bob an...

“Your majesty can’t,” said Carol. “You’re to have your breakfast in bed, and take a rest cure. Mrs. Brook’s going to see her herself this morning, so I’ll stay and take care of...

A week before the birthdays were celebrated, a challenge had come to Huairarwee. There were four boys’ camps, all within a radius of twenty miles from Halcyon: Poke-o’-Moonshine...

“Like a nightmare!” Douglas corrected. He was busy with wood and canvas over a model of an air-ship, to the building of which he had been devoting his leisure moments.

“You dear old Cyclone! I wish they’d let _me_ ride you, some day! You behaved beautifully with Carol. You’d be just as good if _I_ were on your back, wouldn’t you, Beauty?” Jean...

And, oh, Mammy dear, the best is to come! To-morrow Douglas and Jack are to take us up the splendid old Gothics, _if_ Mrs. Brook will let us go. It will be the biggest climb we...

“I lost it because I was an idiot! I knew the pin wasn’t firm, but I thought it would hold. Oh, why was I so silly? Oh, dear! I’ll never find it! Carol!” as Carol and Eunice cam...

Carol started down over the steep of the Gothics, conscious that she was going into grave danger, but her excitement was so great that she felt no fear. She had a cool head and...

While night still hung black in the forest Carol rose up from her sleepless vigil, faint with hunger and cramped and stiff with cold, and went out into the open again to look fo...

“I’m going up the road to look for them!” called Jack, through the open window of Chipmunk Lodge. He had been kept out of the rescue party sorely against his will.

Two days later Jean and her father, Carol and Douglas, arrived at Halcyon Lake. They stopped at Hurricane first to restore Douglas to his chum; and then the other travellers wen...