artificial trend of mind, Marion must
naturally turn to either nature or human merit for the selection of
her Camp Fire name. She was not sufficiently mature to pick a poetic
idea from the achievements of men, and so it fell to nature to supply
a quaint notion as a foundation for her "nom-de-fire."

Seated in her room at Hiawatha Institute one evening, Marion cast
about her mental horizon for some scene or association in her life
that would suggest the desired name. The first that came to her was
the picture of a towering mountain, conspicuous not so much for its
actual loftiness as for its deceptive appearance of great height. In
all her experiences at home, it had never occurred to Marion to think
of this individual portion of prehistoric geologic upheaval as a mass
of earth and stones. She thought of it only as the most beautiful
expression of nature she had ever seen, graceful of form, rich in the
seasons' decorations.

This mountain was probably about as slender as it is possible for a
mountain to be. Compared, or contrasted, with a nearby and
characteristic mountain of the range, it was as a lady's finger to a
telescoped giant's thumb. High Peak, as the tapering sugar-loaf of
earth was called, was located west of Hollyhill, close to the town. In
fact the portion of the city inhabited by the main colony of miners'
families was built on the sloping ground that formed a foothill of the
mountain.

And so when Marion named herself as a Camp Fire Girl after this
mountain she had in mind an ideal expressed in the first injunction of
the Law of the Camp Fire, which is to

"Seek Beauty."

High Peak was her ideal of beauty and grandeur. It stood also, with
her, for lofty aspiration. Thus she pictured the physical
representation of the name she chose as a member of the great army of
girls who seek romance, beauty, and adventure in every-day life.

On the day when the Flamingo Camp Fire arrived at Hollyhill, another
train pulled in at the principal station several hours earlier. It
came from the same direction and might, indeed, have borne the
thirteen girls and their guardian if they had seen fit to get up early
enough to catch a 3 o'clock train.

But the thirteen girls would have been much interested if they could
have beheld the eight boy passengers as they got off in a group and
looked around to see if there was anyone at the depot who knew any of
them.

Relieved at the apparent absence of anybody who might