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"Well, won't you and Zara spend the day with us, if you are by yourselves?" asked Wanaka. "We'll take you over to camp in the canoes, and you can have dinner with us. We're going back now to cook it. The other girls have begun to prepare it already." "Oh, we'd like to!" cried Bessie. "I'm awfully hungry and I'm sure Zara is, too." Bessie hadn't meant to say that.
And I'm going into the village and while I'm there I'll see how things are." "You won't tell Maw Hoover where we are; or Farmer Weeks?" cried Bessie. "I'll do the right thing, Bessie," said Wanaka, smiling. "You may be sure of that. I believe what you've told me I believe every word of it. But you'd rather have me find out from others, too, I'm sure.
Then Mary Turner, in her new ceremonial robe, fringed with beads, slipped into the circle of the firelight, bright and vivid now. "Oh, Wanaka," she said, calling Eleanor by her ceremonial name, "I bring to-night these newcomers to the Camp Fire, to tell you their Desire, and to receive from you their rings."
But you're not alone, are you? Didn't I see another head peeping out?" "That's Zara. She's my friend, and she's with me," said Bessie. "And my name's Bessie King." She looked curiously at Wanaka. Bessie had never heard of the Camp Fire Girls, and the great movement they had begun, meant to do for American girls what the Boy Scout movement had begun so well for their brothers.
Not until he had gone did Bessie open her hand and look at the crumpled bill that Paw Hoover had left in it. And then, to her amazed delight, she saw that it was a five-dollar note more money than she had ever had. She showed it to Wanaka. "I oughtn't to take it," she said. "He thinks I burned his woodshed and "
The voices of the girls all about them, laughing and singing as they made ready for the night, and the kindly words of Wanaka, made a great contrast to their loneliness of the night before. Then everything had seemed black and dismal. They hadn't known what they were going to do, or what was to happen to them; they had been hungry and tired, and with no prospect of breakfast when they got up.
But she could not shake him off, and on the way he had told her about the exciting happenings of the previous day, of which, she told him, she had already heard in the village. "By Godfrey!" said Paw Hoover, as he saw the rescue of Minnehaha, "that young one's got pluck, so she has! And, what's more, Miss, I've a suspicion I've seen her before!" Wanaka said nothing, but smiled.
"You weren't bound to them they didn't agree to keep you any length of time and have you work for them in return for your board?" "No," said Bessie. "Then, if that's so, you had a right to leave them whenever you liked," said Wanaka, thoughtfully. "And tell me about Zara. Who is her father? What does he do for a living?" "I don't believe she even knows that herself.
They were, I understood, subsequently re-opened by a company who employed machinery with more success than was possible with manual labour. The country beyond this was bleak and uninteresting, until the following evening when we arrived at the Molyneux river, where it flowed out of the south end of the Wanaka Lake.
Or did they let you go out to spend the night all alone in the woods that way?" Then Bessie told her the whole story. Wanaka watched her closely as Bessie told of her life with the Hoovers, of her hard work and drudgery, and of Jake's persecution.
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