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by KATHERINE STOKES Author of "The Motor Maids' School Days," "The Motor Maids
by Palm and Pine," "The Motor Maids Across the Continent,"
"The Motor Maids by Rose, Shamrock and Thistle,"
"The Motor Maids in Fair Japan," Etc. With Four Illustrations by Charles L. Wrenn [Illustration: Presently Mr. Lupo came in with a tray of cups and
saucers and a pot of steaming hot coffee. Page 29.] M. A. Donohue & Company
Chicago New York Copyright, 1914,
by
Hurst & Company Made in U. S. A. CONTENTS CHAPTER PAGE I. OFF FOR THE MOUNTAINS 5
II. THE CAMP 19
III. RULES AND REGULATIONS 34
IV. TABLE TOP 50
V. IN THE BOG 67
VI. THE DOCTOR 83
VII. PHOEBE 101
VIII. THE GYPSY COOKS 114
IX. A LESSON BY THE WAYSIDE 132
X. ALBERDINA SCHOENBACHLER 146
XI. A COMEDY OF ERRORS 162
XII. THE RETURN 177
XIII. BILLIE AND THE DOCTOR 190
XIV. CHANCE NEWS 204
XV. A WARNING 221
XVI. THE ATTACK 234
XVII. THE FORCE OF ELOQUENCE 249
XVIII. THE MORNING AFTER 262
XIX. THE MILLS OF GOD 273
XX. A LONG SLEEP 286
XXI. COMRADES OF THE ROAD 304
THE MOTOR MAIDS IN SUNRISE CAMP. CHAPTER I. OFF FOR THE MOUNTAINS.
"Sunrise Camp! What next, pray tell me?" sighed Miss Helen Campbell. "But it doesn't mean getting up at sunrise, Cousin Helen," Billie
Campbell assured her. "Although Papa says we would like it, once we got
started. Campers always do rise with the sun. It's the proper thing to
do." "But why do they give it that uncivilized name?" continued Miss Campbell
in an injured tone of voice. "Why not Sunset Camp or Meridian Camp or
even Moonrise Camp? There is nothing restful to me in the name of
'Sunrise.'" "It will be restful, indeed it will, dear cousin, once you are used to
the life, and it couldn't be called any of those other names because
they would not be appropriate. You see there is a wonderful view of the
sunrise from the camp, and every morning if you wake early enough you
see a beautiful pink light all over the sky and you wonder where the sun
is; and suddenly he comes shooting up from behind the tallest mountain
in the range across the valley, and it's really quite late by then. He
has been up ever so long, but he's been hiding behind the mountains." "And we are to sleep on the ground under those flimsy tents, I suppose?"
asked Miss Campbell, who was not taking very kindly to the camping
proposition. "No, no," protested her young cousin, laughing, "you're thinking of
soldiers, and they do have cots. This camp is a log house, a really
beautiful log house. There is one immense room without any ceiling, and
you look straight up through the beams into the roof. Papa says it's
splendid." Miss Campbell bestowed upon Billie a tolerant, suffering smile. "And back of that room," continued Billie, speaking quickly, "is a long
sleeping porch that can be partitioned off into bedrooms " "No protection from rain and wild animals, I suppose?" put in Miss
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