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                  THE CAMP FIRE GIRLS ACROSS THE SEAS

                        BY MARGARET VANDERCOOK

                Author of "The Ranch Girls Series," etc.


    ILLUSTRATED

    PHILADELPHIA
    THE JOHN C. WINSTON CO.
    PUBLISHERS

    Copyright, 1914, by
    THE JOHN C. WINSTON COMPANY


[Illustration: "LOOK HERE, ESTHER," HE BEGAN]




CONTENTS


       I. TWO YEARS LATER

      II. THE WHEEL REVOLVES

     III. FAREWELLS

      IV. UNTER DEN LINDEN

       V. CHANGES

      VI. A COSMOPOLITAN COMPANY

     VII. DAS RHEINGOLD

    VIII. OTHER SCENES

      IX. THE MEETING

       X. AN ADVENTURE

      XI. AND ITS CONSEQUENCES

     XII. THE UNCERTAIN FUTURE

    XIII. RICHARD ASHTON

     XIV. BETTY'S STRANGE DISAPPEARANCE

      XV. THE FINDING OF BRUNHILDE

     XVI. A HEART-TO-HEART TALK

    XVII. THE DAY BEFORE ESTHER'S DEBUT

   XVIII. THAT NIGHT

     XIX. TEA AT THE CASTLE

      XX. ESTHER AND DICK

     XXI. SUNRISE CABIN




LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS


"LOOK HERE, ESTHER," HE BEGAN

THERE WAS A SLIGHT SOUND FROM HIS LISTENER

"TELL ME MORE ABOUT THE PLACES NEAR HERE"

"FIFTY THOUSAND DOLLARS TO ME!"




The Camp Fire Girls Across the Seas




CHAPTER I

Two Years Later


A young man strode along through one of the principal streets of the
town of Woodford, New Hampshire, with his blue eyes clouded and an
expression of mingled displeasure and purpose about the firm lines of
his mouth.

It was an April afternoon and the warm sunshine uncurling the tiny buds
on the old elm trees lit to a brighter hue the yellow Forsythia bushes
already in bloom in the gardens along the way.

Standing in front of an inconspicuous brown cottage was a large touring
car, empty of occupants. Within a few yards of this car the young man
paused, frowning, and then gazed anxiously up toward the