f the Sunrise Camp Fire unit.

Certainly their present daily life bore but a faint resemblance to their
former outdoor summer encampments in various picturesque places in the
United States. Nevertheless the Camp Fire girls always had considered
that they were doing useful work merely by following the rules of their
camp fire and by gaining the honors necessary to the growth of their
organization and their own official rank.

Now they realized that all their efforts had been but a preparation for
the service they were at present undertaking. There was no detail of
their past experience which was not of service, their Health Craft, Camp
Craft, Home Craft, Business and Patriotism. Why, their very watch cry,
"Wohelo"--work, health and love--embodied the three gifts they were
trying to restore to the poverty-stricken French people in this
particular neighborhood upon "the field of honor!"

On this afternoon, in spite of the cold, the girls had arranged to hold
their first out-of-doors Camp Fire meeting since their arrival in
France.

For weeks they had been working among the young French girls in the
villages and the country near at hand, persuading them to spend whatever
leisure they had in studying the Camp Fire ideas and activities.

Bettina Graham and Alice Ashton had introduced as much Camp Fire study
as possible into the regular routine of the school which they held daily
in the big schoolroom at the farm. Even with the younger children there
were like suggestions of play and of service which Marta Clark and
Yvonne were able to give.

But until this afternoon there had been no actual organization of the
first group of Camp Fire girls in France. Strange that with Camp Fires
in England, Australia, Africa, Japan, China and other foreign places,
there should have been none in France! But Yvonne Fleury could have
explained that, unlike American girls, French girls were not accustomed
to intimate association with one another, their lives up to the time of
their marriage being spent in seclusion among the members of their own
family.

Indeed, upon this same afternoon Yvonne was thinking of this as she
dressed slowly before going outdoors to join the other girls. The house
was empty save that Mere 'Toinette was working downstairs.

Marta Clark and Peggy had been kind enough to make her a simple Camp
Fire costume, the khaki skirt and blouse, which formed their ordinary
service costume. Notwithstanding she had been stud