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If we, her own Troop of Girl Scouts, can do nothing for her, I don't see who can." Louise Miller, seated beside her most intimate friend, Dorothy McClain, uttered an unexpected exclamation. Under ordinary circumstances she talked less than any one of her companions. Usually it was conceded that Louise alone among all of them thought of what she was going to say before making a remark.
Lance McClain alone was like his mother who had died some years before, the others like Dr. McClain. "Lance, why in the world don't you help Don out? You know he will only make things worse if left to himself." Tory whispered at this moment. "Want to save Don at my expense? All right, Tory," he answered quizzically in the voice and manner Tory never really understood.
"There were very few children in the neighbourhood where your Aunt Patricia lived. For a long time she had no playmates except the little boy who lived on the adjoining place, Donald McClain. But he came over nearly every day for four years, and they grew to love each other like brother and sister. It was a lonesome time for the little Patricia when the McClains moved away.
I immediately said to him 'You are James McClain. 'I am, said he. We both stepped into Mariner's public house, at the corner, and he related his marvellous escape to me. "'They pursued me: I frequently dived to avoid them, and when I came up they fired on me. I caught my breath, and immediately dived again, and held my breath till I crawled along the mud. They no doubt thought they killed me.
McClain was at present seeing Kara daily at the Gray House, the letters were given to him for safe delivery. Not until twenty-four hours after was Tory Drew permitted to call and find what the influence and effect of so unsatisfying a communication had been. She found Kara in the big room downstairs which had been given over to her use since her accident whenever she was living at the Gray House.
"Well there is one person whom we all agree to be the ideal choice," Dorothy McClain remarked, hoping to turn the conversation into more agreeable channels. She had been sitting on the ground weaving a chaplet of beech leaves. Rising up now she placed it like a crown on Kara's brow. "Behold Athena, the wise Goddess with the clear gray eyes!" A little silence descended upon the group of girls.
Arriving a stranger in Westhaven the winter before, among Victoria Drew's first acquaintances were Dorothy McClain and her six brothers. Their father was the leading physician in Westhaven and an old friend of her aunt and uncle. They were neighbors as well. In the beginning Tory had believed she preferred Lance to any of the other boys.
"Donald McClain will be Odysseus; Lance McClain, his son, Telemachus; Joan Peters, Penelope; Victoria Drew, the Princess Nausicaa; Mr. Richard Fenton, Eumaeus, the aged servant of the Greek hero. The other Girl Scouts will be the ladies in waiting to Penelope and the Boy Scouts Penelope's suitors.
McClain had agreed that for the present this would be wisest, as in no possible way must Kara be excited or depressed. True, Mr. Hammond had never been to see Kara since her accident! He must have learned of her misfortune. A large box of roses had arrived at the "Gray House." Yet neither Mr. or Mrs. Hammond nor Lucy had come personally to inquire.
For some reason neither of them understood, Victoria Drew and Lance McClain usually argued unimportant issues and agreed upon the important ones. From a little distance beyond, the rest of the Boy Scout Troop could now be seen approaching. "Yes, Don will be here in a little while, Tory. Don't you and Dorothy worry. I rode over because the camp doctor thought I wasn't in very good shape.
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