m camp--I had so many lovely plans for Camp
Fire work! I did mean to be a good Torch Bearer--I _did_!"

"I know you did."

"And now it's all spoilt. I can't do a single bit of Camp Fire work,"
she ended sadly.

"Olga," Laura's arm was around the girl's shoulders, her voice very low
and tender, "you say that now you cannot do a single bit of Camp Fire
work?"

Olga looked up in surprise. "How can I--when I can't be with the girls
at all, nor attend the meetings?"

"Do you know what I think is the best Camp Fire service the girls have
done? It is the work in their own homes. Mrs. Bicknell says that Eva is
getting to be a real comfort to her. She helps with the housework and
the younger children as she never used to do, and her influence is
making the younger ones so much easier to manage."

"But, Miss Laura, I don't see how that is _Camp Fire_ work," Olga said.

"Don't you?" Very softly Laura repeated, "'Love is the _joy of service_
so deep that self is forgotten.' And isn't the home the place above all
others where Camp Fire Girls should render service?"

"I--never--thought of it--that way," Olga said very slowly.

"But isn't it so?" Laura persisted. "Think now."

"Yes--of course it is so. Miss Laura, it will--it _will_ make it easier
to think of it as Camp Fire service, for I did so hate to be out of it
all--all the Camp Fire work, I mean. I'll try to think of it that way
after this. And--and I guess there isn't any way out. I suppose I ought
not to long so for a way out, if I am going to be a faithful Torch
Bearer." She made a brave attempt to smile.

"There is a way out--I am sure of it, but we may not find it just at
once. Meantime you have a great opportunity, Olga. Don't you see? It is
easy to be happy as you were in August at the camp, when you were
growing stronger every day, and had just begun to realise what Camp Fire
might mean to you in your service for and with the girls, and their love
for you. Once you had opened your heart, you could not help being happy.
But now it is different. Now you must be happy not because of, but in
spite of, circumstances. And so if you keep the law of the Camp Fire to
give service--a service that it is very hard for you to give--and to be
happy in spite of the trying things in your life--don't you see how much
more your happiness will mean--how much deeper and stronger and finer
it will be?"

"Yes, I see."

"And the girls will see too, Olga. You know how quick the