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  PEMROSE LORRY

  CAMP FIRE GIRL

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  By

  ISABEL HORNIBROOK

  DRAKE OF TROOP ONE

  SCOUT DRAKE IN WAR TIME

  COXSWAIN DRAKE OF THE SEASCOUTS

  PEMROSE LORRY: CAMP FIRE GIRL

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  Not a remote sign of a biplane decorated the sky overhead.Frontispiece. See page 171.]

  PEMROSE LORRY

  CAMP FIRE GIRL

  by

  ISABEL HORNIBROOK

  With Illustrations by Nana French Bickford

  BostonLittle, Brown, and Company1921

  Copyright, 1921,By Little, Brown, and Company.All rights reserved

  Published October, 1921

  Norwood Press

  Set up and electrotyped by J. S. Cushing Co.Norwood, Mass., U. S. A.

  TO THE MEMORY OF MY MOTHER, VETERAN AUTHOR,WHO FIRST HAD AN ADMIRATION FOR THE WISE WOMANWHO SAVED THE CITY, THIS STORY IS DEDICATED.

  PREFACE

  This, the first story written upon the latest and unique conquest of theage, the conquest of empty Space, with the subsequent reaching out tothe Heavenly Bodies, has the permission of the conquering inventor,Professor Robert H. Goddard.

  May it bring to every Camp Fire in America, and to boys as well, theromance of the transcendent achievement, beside which all dressing offiction pales!

  The Author also acknowledges her indebtedness to Professor Frank G.Speck for permission to reprint the music of the Leaf Dance.

  CONTENTS Chapter Page I. A QUAKER GUN 1 II. GIMCRACK ICE 20 III. THE WRONG SIDE OF HER DREAM 31 IV. THE SECOND WRECK 40 V. SHE SAVED A CITY 49 VI. A HOTSPUR 60 VII. THE PINNACLE 69 VIII. A USURPER 78 IX. JACK AT A PINCH 86 X. CAMP FIRE SISTERS 98 XI. MOTHER EARTH'S ROMANCE 109 XII. OLD ROUND-TOP 124 XIII. COBWEB WEED 134 XIV. STOUTHEART 147 XV. AIRDRAWN AEROPLANES 160 XVI. THE COUNCIL FIRE 174 XVII. A NOVEL SANTA CLAUS 190 XVIII. REPRISALS 207 XIX. A RECORD FLIGHT 229 XX. THE SEARCH 244 XXI. THE MAN KILLER 262 XXII. A JUNE WOMAN 280 XXIII. THE CELESTIAL CLIMAX 296

  ILLUSTRATIONS

  Not a remote sign of a biplane decorated the sky overhead Frontispiece

  "Oh! de-ar Mammy Moon--what a shock she'll get" PAGE 2

  "Keep cool! Don't stir! I'll reach you in a moment!" 86

  The man looked up at her, some dash of whimsical fire mastering weakness 268

  PEMROSE LORRY

  CAMP FIRE GIRL