ammered Sahwah, abandoning both ceremonial etiquette
and grammar in her amazement.

"Yes, it's true," laughed Nyoda. "Stand forth and be decorated!"

"Speech!" cried the girls, when the medal had been fastened on
Sahwah's ceremonial gown. But instead of making a speech Sahwah
sat down on the ground and burst into tears, and had to be patted
on the back before she was herself again. So the last Council
Meeting ended with a great feather in the cap of the Winnebagos,
and the fire sank to embers and the girls filed out softly to the
tune of their good-night song:

"Now our camp fire's burning low,
Wohelo, Wohelo,
Off to slumber we must go,
Wohelo, Wohelo."

And the next morning they all stood on the dock waiting for the
_Bluebird_ to come and carry them off, laughing at each other's
funny appearance in city clothes, and winking the tears back
whenever they thought of what they were leaving behind. Gladys,
who had never seen the other girls in "suits," scarcely knew them
at all. The _Keewaydin_ was crated up and ready to be taken
along to the city, and Sahwah's bathing suit, still wet, was tied
to the outside of her suitcase, for she had stayed in the lake
until the very last minute. "Good-bye, dear, beloved lake,"
Nyoda heard her whisper as she rose from the depths for the last
time. And Gladys, who had been so loth to come to camp with the
Winnebagos, was still more loth to go, and her only consolation
was that she could be with the girls during the winter!

And by and by the _Bluebird_ came and they got aboard and went
sailing out through the Gap, and left the lake and mountains and
islands and forest behind them forever. But the strangest part
was that they took with them as much as they left behind!

THE END.

* * * * * *

The next volume in this series is entitled "The Camp Fire Girls
at School; The Wohelo Weavers."

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