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 CHAPTER I A QUAKER GUN "And will the Thunder Bird really lay its egg upon the moon? Such a hard egg, too! Will it--really--drop a pound weight of steel upon the head of the Man in the Moon?... Oh! de-ar Mammy Moon--what a shock she'll get." The girl, the fifteen-year-old Camp Fire Girl--all but sixteen now--to whom Mammy Moon had been the fairy foster-mother of her childhood, ever since she lay, wakeful, in her little cot, looking up at that silvery face of a burnt-out satellite, picturing it the gate of Heaven and her mother's spirit as bathed in the soft, lunar radiance behind it, caught her breath with a wild little gasp whose triumph was a sob upon the still laboratory air.