But the hotel is a fashionable place, and we can't go up in this sort of rig, to discredit you girls.

For that matter, just think how smart you all look yourselves, dressed in the daintiest of summer frocks.

While we look like---well, I won't say the word." "If our Gridley boys are ashamed to be seen with us just because they're in rough camp attire," said Laura gently, "then we haven't as much reason to be proud of them as we thought we had." "I'm answered," Dick admitted humbly.

"Lead on, then.

We'll take comfort from our company, and hold our heads as high as we can." On to the wide hotel porch, where many well-dressed people sat, the girls conducted the two delegates from the canoe club.