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 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 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 The Camp Fire Girls in Glorious France CHAPTER I A March Day One afternoon in March, the windows of an old French farmhouse stood open, the curtains blowing in the breeze like white flags of truce, while from indoors came the murmur of a number of voices, girls’ voices, gay and animated and speaking in English, not French.