superior dishes.

Ordinarily the most indolent of the girls, on occasions of especial
festivity Sally Ashton always assumed supreme command of the cooking. It
was Sally who, with Gerry and Vera as her assistants, made both the
bread and cake, articles of food of particular importance.

In the present menu she was especially interested, as recently she had
been experimenting with a number of new war recipes, finding them
extremely successful. Now Sally wished to repeat the recipes for a
larger company than their Camp Fire group.

Having by this time recovered from her accident, secretly Sally Ashton
felt that she was being repaid for what she had suffered. She had
secured a very agreeable new acquaintance, who showed the symptoms Sally
so well understood of becoming one of her many admirers. The young man
was Merton Anderson, who had been a guest at the Morris ranch and had
ridden over to camp with the news of the accident.

Since then, with Mr. Morris and Felipe Morris, he had made several calls
upon Mrs. Burton and ostensibly upon her group of Camp Fire girls.
However, after Merton Anderson's first visit, Sally appreciated that the
rest of his calls were due to her presence. No one could have explained
how she managed, not even Sally herself, yet she had a fashion of seeing
and conquering almost immediately both young men and old. No one ever
observed her making an effort to attract attention. She was even
unusually demure; nevertheless the attraction was going on in a subtle
and scientific fashion.

Of Felipe Morris' attitude toward her, Gerry Williams was by no means so
assured. Not since their original meeting at his home had she an
opportunity of speaking to him alone, nor had she made the effort to
secure such an opportunity. For some reason Gerry felt a certain shyness
toward her new acquaintance, almost as if she were afraid of the
influence he might be able to exert upon her.

Certainly she had no idea of making an appointment to meet him anywhere
alone. Apart from the fact that Mrs. Burton would not approve, Gerry had
been trained in a sufficiently hard school of experience to recognize
the lack of wisdom in such a proceeding. If she wished Felipe to like
her especially, and she was by no means sure at this time that she did
wish it, then she must not allow herself to become cheapened in his
eyes. Social conventions Gerry understood were of value and more
especially to a girl in her position. However, F