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Guardian.

"You say it was Gladys Cooper you saw, Dolly?" she said. "The Gladys
Cooper who lives in Pine Street at home?"

"Yes, that's the one, Miss Eleanor."

"I'm surprised and sorry to hear it," said Eleanor. "How does she
happen to be there, Dolly? Do you know? The Coopers haven't any camp
here, I know."

"Oh, it's a girls' summer camp, Miss Eleanor. You know the sort.
They're run for a lot of rich girls, whose parents want to get rid of
them for the summer. They're supposed to do some studying, but all
they, ever really do is to have a good time. I'd have gone to one this
year if I hadn't joined the Camp Fire Girls instead. Gladys laughed at
me in the city when she heard I was going to join."

"Mrs. Cooper wouldn't like it, I know that," said Eleanor,
thoughtfully. "She's a charming woman. She and my mother are great
friends, and I know her very well, too. There's nothing snobbish about
her, though they have so much money. I remember now; they went to
Europe this summer, and they didn't take Gladys with them."

"I wish they had!" said Dolly, viciously. "I wish she was anywhere but
here."

"Well," said Eleanor, "I'll find out in the morning just where the line
comes between the two camps, and we'll have to be careful not to cross
it."

"I'm sure none of us want to go into their camp," said Margery. "But
there's no fence, and there aren't any signs, so how is one to know?"

"We'll find some way to tell," said Eleanor, decisively. "And we won't
give them any chance to make any more trouble. They've got a right to
warn us off their property, of course, though they're just trying to be
nasty when they do it. But as long as they are within their rights, we
can't complain just because they're doing it to be ugly. We mustn't
put ourselves in the wrong because nothing would suit them better."

"Oh, I hope we'll be able to get away to-morrow!" said Margery,
angrily. "I don't want ever to see any of them again."

Eleanor's eyes flashed.

"I've made up my mind to one thing," she said. "We're going to stay
here just as long as we like! I don't intend to be driven away in that
fashion. And I shouldn't wonder if we could start our missionary work
better with them than with anyone else!"

"That's right--about staying here, I mean!" said Dolly,
enthusiastically. "Why, Margery, if we ran away now, they'd think they
had scared us off. You wouldn't want that, would you?"

"No, I guess