Molly may stay any place she
chooses. She is all I have, and I so nearly lost her!"

It was a beautiful evening. The sun had just set. Over the hills could
be seen tents, their flags flying and their happy young and old owners
could be heard singing, calling, and shouting; could be seen building
fires, and doing all the thousand and one absurd things that humanity
insists upon doing every time it gets the chance.

"It is lovely to camp," ventured Dorothy. "We have had rather an
interrupted season, but I hope now we shall make up for it."

"If money will help you, it shall be yours," declared the anxious
woman, "for my daughter has more than she can ever use."

Dorothy looked at her in silence. Then it was well indeed to have been
lost and found, for the sake of this dear girl!

"This is our camp," said Dorothy, as they reached it.

Mrs. Harriwell fairly ran up those barn steps.

But who would try to tell what happened when she found her daughter?

CHAPTER XXIX

THE ROUND-UP--CONCLUSION

"It's up to Tavia!"

"I have told you every word I am going to tell," she declared.

"Oh, no you haven't," objected Nat. "I want to know about that stagey
fellow. I don't quite fancy his interference."

"He didn't interfere," declared Tavia, "and I am not going over that
thing again."

"Oh, no, he didn't interfere," repeated Ned. "He merely had it all his
own way. Now, if I had long hair----"

"Ned," interrupted Dorothy, "please don't. You must remember that the
poor fellow was not responsible."

"Lucky dog," murmured Ned, giving Cologne one of his favorite looks
(Ned had a fancy for Cologne).

"Then I think that Dorothy ought to tell her part," insisted Jack. "We
have heard rumors of terrible things!"

"Mere rumors," said Dorothy with a laugh, "Why shouldn't I be entitled
to my own experience? Haven't I paid it all back to you?"

"Nope. Not for the shoe that caught in the trap," said Ned
facetiously.

"Nor for visiting absolute strangers like those Hobbses," added
Cologne, "and they are completely out of our set."

"Well, I don't mind," agreed Jack. "We have found Molly."

"Jackie, you do know a good thing when you see it," complimented Ned.

Molly sat out on the low camp stool very close to Jack, and it was
plain there was no objection on the part of either as to this
particular closeness.

"Ralph says nothing----" began Tavia.

"But saws wood," added Ned, with a wink, for Ralph seemed to have
a