nor called the girls
together in her own tent.

"I feel that it is my duty to be with Bessie and Dolly at Hamilton,"
she explained. "And, because I rather foresaw this, I have arranged
for a friend of mine to come over here and take my place as Guardian at
short notice. She is Miss Drew--Miss Anna Drew--and some of you must
have met her in the city. She has had plenty of experience as a Camp
Fire Guardian, and you'll all like her, I know.

"Please make it as easy for her as possible. Do just as she tells you,
even if she doesn't have the same way of doing everything that I have.
I'll get back as soon as I can, and I want you to have a good time
while we're gone."

"We'll see that she doesn't have any trouble, Wanaka," said Margery
Burton loyally. "She'll find that this Camp Fire can behave itself,
all right!"

"Thanks! I knew I could count on all of you," said Eleanor. "Now I'm
going to send her a note by Andrew. Her people own some of this land,
and she happens to be in their camp at one of the other lakes, so that
she'll be able to get here before we go if she starts at once."

Andrew was quite ready to carry the note, and went off while Eleanor
and the two girls made the simple preparations that were necessary for
their trip.

"I'm so glad you didn't say anything when the deputy sheriff spoke that
way of Mr. Holmes," she said to Bessie and Dolly. "I was afraid one of
you would cry out and I really couldn't have blamed you if you had."

"I would have--I was just going to," said Dolly honestly, "but Bessie
pinched me, so I shut up, though I couldn't see why. I still think he
ought to know that this man he seems to think so much of is the very
one they ought to watch most carefully if they really want to make sure
that we don't get into any trouble while we're going down there."

"The trouble is that he wouldn't believe it, Dolly, and it would simply
discredit us with him and all the other authorities at Hamilton, so
that they wouldn't believe us when we had something to tell them that
we were sure was true."

"But we're sure that Mr. Holmes was behind this gypsy. We've got the
letter he wrote to him to prove it!"

"Yes, but Mr. Jamieson doesn't want anyone to know we have that letter
until the proper time comes. He wants to catch Mr. Holmes in a trap if
he possibly can, so that he'll be harmless after this. You can see
what a good thing that would be."

"Oh, yes. I never thought of that! He