E-text prepared by Roger Frank and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team (http://www.fadedpage.com) Note: Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this file which includes the original illustrations. See 31748-h.htm or 31748-h.zip: (https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/31748/pg31748-images.html) or (https://www.gutenberg.org/files/31748/31748-h.zip) PEMROSE LORRY CAMP FIRE GIRL * * * * * By ISABEL HORNIBROOK DRAKE OF TROOP ONE SCOUT DRAKE IN WAR TIME COXSWAIN DRAKE OF THE SEASCOUTS PEMROSE LORRY: CAMP FIRE GIRL * * * * * [Illustration: 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 [Illustration] Boston Little, Brown, and Company 1921 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 WOMAN WHO SAVED THE CITY, THIS STORY IS DEDICATED. PREFACE This, the first story written upon the latest and unique conquest of the age, the conquest of empty Space, with the subsequent reaching out to the 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, the romance of the transcendent achievement, beside which all dressing of fiction pales! The Author also acknowledges her indebtedness to Professor Frank G. Speck for permission to reprint the music of the Leaf Dance.