"I will tell Granny that you expect to come up and call on her again?" said he, shaking hands with Mrs. Vernon.
"Yes, but be sure and come down to see us soon, won't you?" said she.
John left, and Mrs. Vernon excused herself for a time. She went in the old hut, and Julie leaned over to whisper: "Now she'll go and cry herself to pieces!"
"No, Julie, I think she is going to pray out her thanks to God for His mercy in sending her such glorious news of her boy," returned Betty, gently.
And Betty was right. For when the Captain returned to the scouts, her face was shining with a radiance that seldom was seen on her face.
"Girls, where shall we have the new members build their hut?" asked she, as if nothing had ever caused her to think of aught but the scouts and their work.
"Why not move Hepsy's shed along and have them use that site for their house?" suggested Joan.
After much planning and arguing, it was decided that the new members could choose their own site and choice of building. "They may prefer to live in a tent--for all we know," said Ruth.
The four scouts worked hard all that week to present as fine a camp as could be found to the new members, and when the five girls drove up in the car to taste the joys of a scout camp, they were duly impressed with the order and neatness of everything about the camp.
How these nine girls formed a Troop of splendid Girl Scouts, how they won badges for prowess in many tests and trials, and how they were the envy of all the school-girls in Elmertown, is too long a tale to tell here.
But this much can be said: The reward for the $1000 was paid over to the scouts, and the Captain placed it in the Bank of Freedom, to the account of "Girls of Dandelion Patrol." That was the beginning of their savings to pay expenses of a Camp in the Adirondacks the following season.
And how they finally went to the much-longed-for camp where Mr. Gilroy welcomed them for a whole summer's visit, is told in the second volume of the Girl Scouts Mountain series, called "Dandelion Troop in the Adirondacks."
Would you like to know what became of the good friends you have made in this book?
Would you like to read other stories continuing their adventures and experiences, or other books quite as entertaining by the same author?
