Bessie laughed.

"You're not forgetting that it costs something to make, are you!" she
asked. "You have to allow for what it costs before you begin to think of
how you're going to spend your profits. But I really do think it would
work, Dolly. When we get back to town we'll figure it all out, and see
how much it would cost for butter and sugar and nuts and chocolate and
all the things we'd need."

"Yes, and if we used lots of things we'd get them cheaper, too, Bessie,"
said Dolly, surprising Bessie by this exhibition of her business
knowledge. "Oh, I think that would be fine. I'd just love to have money
that I'd earned myself. Some of the other girls have been winning honor
beads by earning money, but I never could think of any way that I could
do it."

Dolly was beginning to yawn, and Bessie herself felt sleepy. But when
she proposed that they should go into the tent now Dolly protested.

"Oh, let's stay outside, Bessie," she said. "If we went in now we'd just
wake ourselves up. We can sleep out here just as well as not. What's
the difference!"

And Bessie was so sleepy that she was glad to agree to that. In a few
moments they were sound asleep, with no thought of the exciting episodes
of the day and night to disturb them.

The fire was low when Bessie awoke with a start. At first everything
seemed all right; she could hear nothing. But then, suddenly, she looked