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Updated: June 9, 2025
A little fall like that!" she brushed the sand from her blouse. "Peggy," cried Billy, joyfully, "she's a real scout!" and Keineth knew then that she was one of them. Even Peggy's tone was different. "Let's ask mother if we can't go down to the beach before lunch!" she called out over her shoulder, starting houseward on a run.
Then she said a great deal in French so fast that Keineth could not understand her and finally, sobbing violently, she rushed out of the room, leaving Keineth very disturbed. She thought that poor Tante must love her very much and she supposed the prayer was for the little children in Europe who were starving, as well as for her Keineth Randolph!
She and Molly were going to play tennis on the Sawyer courts with Joan Crate, a girl that's out here from town, and Keineth felt left out. Peggy told her she couldn't play well enough to play with them and that it spoiled a game playing with beginners, anyway!" Mrs. Lee stitched in silence. Barbara went on: "And I heard Billy the other day teasing her about her father.
"Come back with some muscle in these arms of yours and a few more freckles on your nose," he said to Keineth, pinching her cheek affectionately. "Camp Wachita" the girls had nicknamed it Camp Wish-no-more was nestled in the hills with the tiny lake at its front door and a dense woodland at its back.
"If you'll just tell me how to address a letter to the President, please." "The President! What President?" "The President of the United States." "Good gracious " Barbara, dropping her sewing, stared at Keineth in amazement. "I thought no wonder you're using a dictionary! I am sure I would, too! But " Keineth broke in hastily.
"And he might get lost in the woods," Keineth added. Now Pilot could not know that the children were putting on heavy rubbers and warm sweaters under their coats because they were going to "hike" into the woods to see if the sap was beginning to run.
It was very unfair in Peggy to speak in this way concerning one of the other girls. Keineth did not suspect that perhaps a little jealousy prompted Peggy's ungraciousness. This little cloud was to grow over the whole camp. And in the second week Ricky's girls learned a lesson of greater value to them than all the scoutcraft they loved.
For just a moment they looked hard into one another's eyes; not a boy and girl, the one proudly conscious of his boyhood and two years' difference in age, the other a very young and all-admiring girl but just two mortals contesting together against two others. And at last they, Keineth and Billy, met on equal ground Keineth had proven her mettle let Billy show his!
A carved box from Japan, a gay Chinese robe from Pekin, dolls of all sorts, brass plates from Egypt, embroidered scarfs from Constantinople, coral from Italy and other treasures over which Keineth and Peggy went into ecstasies of delight! "For us?" she cried to her father. He smiled her "us" meant to him that Keineth had found at last the true joy of friends.
Keineth played on the piano for them not her own fairy things, but a simple little piece she had learned with much precision from Madame Henri. Then she and Tante went upstairs. Daddy had whispered to her as she kissed him good-night: "You must decide yourself, dear!"
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