rchase some articles from
the clerk behind the counter.

"You ought to come and take a look at our camp," continued Flapp. "It's
a real interesting sight."

"All the girls are welcome," said Pender, feeling he must say
something.

"We'd be willing to show you the way at any time," added Rockley, and
placed his hand on the arm of one of the girls.

"Please let me be," said the girl, and walked away. A moment later she
left the store, and her companion went with her.

"My, but they were shy!" laughed Pender. "Rockley, you didn't make any
impression at all. Nor you either, Flapp."

"Humph! Wonder who they are?" murmured Lew Flapp.

"Let's ask the storekeeper and find out."

"Those girls are twins," said the proprietor of the establishment.

"Twins!" cried Rockley. "They didn't look it--not by their difference in
sizes."

"But they did in looks," said Pender.

"What are their names?"

"The tall one is Alice Staton and the other is Helen Staton. Their
father is the local constable, although he runs a big farm for a
living."

"Do they come here often?"

"Pretty often. But they are very shy girls and don't hardly speak to
anybody. They are both studying to be school-teachers."

In the meantime Helen Staton and her sister Alice were hurrying down
the main street of Oakville with flushed cheeks.

"I don't think those cadets were very nice," said Helen.

"Certainly they were not very good-looking," replied Alice. "And I
thought they smelt a little of liquor."

"The idea of their saying they would show us the way to the camp! I
guess papa can drive us there if we want to go."

"I'd like to see it. But I shouldn't want to go with those boys," went
on Alice.

"Perhaps papa can take us," said Helen. "But come, we promised mamma
we'd hurry back as soon as we could."

To get home the two girls had to walk for a considerable distance along
the road leading to Bass Lake.

On the way they passed the farm of one Isaac Klem, a man who took great
pride in his poultry and his cattle. Klem had forty cows, and two bulls
which were worth a good deal of money.

One of the bulls, a black, vicious looking fellow, was tied up in a
small lot at the corner of the farm.

The girls were just walking past this lot when Helen happened to glance
over her shoulder and set up a cry of alarm.

"Oh, Alice, Mr. Klem's black bull is loose!"

"Where, Helen?" queried her twin sister.

"There he is, at the fence. See, he is tryi