“Can’t You Guess at Least Something of My Reason?”
THE
CAMP FIRE GIRLS
IN
GLORIOUS FRANCE
BY
MARGARET VANDERCOOK
Author of “The Ranch Girls” Series, “The Red
Cross Girls” Series, etc.
ILLUSTRATED
PHILADELPHIA
THE JOHN C. WINSTON CO.
PUBLISHERS
Copyright 1919, by
The John C. Winston Company
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CONTENTS
- CHAPTER PAGE
- I. A March Day 7
- II. The Château Yvonne 20
- III. The Retreat 31
- IV. The Road to Paris 47
- V. Armistice Day in Paris 57
- VI. Versailles 71
- VII. Next Morning 83
- VIII. A Home in Versailles 96
- IX. The Dinner Party 111
- X. Plans and Purposes 125
- XI. A Day in Paris 139
- XII. Peace 159
- XIII. A Pilgrimage 172
- XIV. Foundation Stones 184
- XV. An Intimate Conversation 197
- XVI. Another Afternoon 216
- XVII. An Unexpected Intrusion 229
- XVIII. One Afternoon 241
- XIX. L’Envoi to Glorious France 253
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ILLUSTRATIONS
- “Can’t You Guess at Least Something of My Reason?” Frontispiece
- PAGE
- “It Was Impossible to Climb the Wall” 81
- “They Were Both too Angry to Pay the Slightest Attention to Her!” 165
- “She Was Able to Talk and Tell Me What She Had Endured“ 227
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The Camp Fire Girls in
Glorious France
CHAPTER I
A March Day
One afternoon in March, the windowsof an old French farmhousestood open, the curtains blowing inthe breeze like white flags of truce, whilefrom indoors came the murmur of a numberof voices, girls’ voices, gay and animatedand speaking in English, not French.
The next moment there was a brief sile
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