Honors were awarded and several girls advanced to the next higher grade.
This is the Fire Makers' ode to Fire that they intoned as Ethel lighted
the Council Fire: "Oh, Fire, long years ago when our fathers fought with
the great animals you were their protection. From the cruel cold of
winter you saved them. When they needed food you changed the flesh of
beasts into savory meat for them. During all the ages your mysterious
flame has been a symbol to them for Spirit. So (tonight) we light our
fire in remembrance of the great Spirit who gave you to us."

In the darkness of the woods with the bright flames shooting upward the
effect of the chanting was weird, mysterious and unusual.

Then Kate showed Ethel the typed copy of the Legend of Ohio which had
been attached to each count book, handing her a copy for her own.

The roll was called, reports read of the last Council Fire, and of the
weekly meeting. Edna Whitely had really exerted herself and had written
it in clever rhyme.

Then to their surprise a report of Ethel's and Patty's kindness to Mattie
Hastings was read. It seems that Mattie's conscience had troubled her and
at one of the meetings she had confessed it all and how she had been
saved by the two girls. She also requested that it should be read upon
Ethel's return. It told how under unusual distress she had been tempted
to do a great wrong,---how the two girls caused her to make restitution,
and how after that they placed Mollie in the Cripples School, and that
now she was on her way to recovery. It said that she began from then to
try and lead a better life and that with God's help she was doing so.

The girls looked at one another, but although they made no sign they knew