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Title: The Camp Fire Girls in the Mountains
or Bessie King's Strange Adventure

Author: Jane L. Stewart

Release Date: July 27, 2009 [EBook #29528]

Language: English

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CAMP FIRE GIRLS SERIES, VOLUME IV

The Camp Fire Girls

In the Mountains

or

Bessie King's Strange Adventure

by

JANE L. STEWART

THE SAALFIELD PUBLISHING COMPANY

Chicago ---- AKRON, OHIO ---- New York

MADE IN U. S. A.

Copyright, 1914

By

The Saalfield Publishing Co.

THE CAMP FIRE GIRLS SERIES

1. THE CAMP FIRE GIRLS IN THE WOODS
2. THE CAMP FIRE GIRLS ON THE FARM
3. THE CAMP FIRE GIRLS AT LONG LAKE
4. THE CAMP FIRE GIRLS IN THE MOUNTAINS
5. THE CAMP FIRE GIRLS ON THE MARCH
6. THE CAMP FIRE GIRLS AT THE SEASHORE

TABLE OF CONTENTS

I. PEACEFUL DAYS
II. FOREBODINGS OF TROUBLE
III. A NEW PLAN
IV. A FRIEND IN TROUBLE
V. A TANGLED NET
VI. BESSIE KING'S PLUCK
VII. BACK AT LONG LAKE
VIII. A NOVEL RACE
IX. THE PATHFINDERS
X. THE SIGNAL SMOKES
XI. OFF TO THE MOUNTAINS
XII. ENEMIES WITHOUT CAUSE
XIII. A PLAN OF REVENGE
XIV. THE SPIRIT OF WO-HE-LO
XV. COALS OF FIRE

The Camp Fire Girls In the Mountains

CHAPTER I

PEACEFUL DAYS

On the shores of Long Lake the dozen girls who made up the Manasquan
Camp Fire of the Camp Fire Girls of America were busily engaged in
preparing for a friendly contest and matching of skill that had caused
the greatest excitement among the girls ever since they had learned
that it was to take place.

For the first time since the organization of the Camp Fire under the
guardianship of Miss Eleanor Mercer, the girls were living with no aid
but their own. They did all the work of the camp; even the rough work,
which, in any previous camping expedition of more