and August, Ethel might join her other grand niece's "Camp Fires" and
live in the woods. "It will be the making of your girl," she added,
"as now she looks thin and peaked."

At first Mrs. Archie indignantly refused. She almost felt that she had
been trapped, but Aunt Susan met every objection and even told the lady
that she feared she was shallow and an unnatural mother to refuse to
consider her daughter's health. Mrs. Archie dared not let Aunt Susan know
that she considered the whole organization conspicuous and common, nor
that she did not wish Ethel to learn to do the work of a servant, etc.,
or run the risk of meeting girls of humble origin. So after some sharp
rebukes administered to her by the old lady on the sin of worldliness
and the fact that she was not doing a mother's duty by her daughter, she
consented, mentally declaring that she would see that Ethel should forget
all about it on her return.

While visiting Aunt Susan and living in Camp in a truthful atmosphere
Ethel Hollister began to change. She saw how the old lady was beloved.
She heard on every side of the good she had done, and when one day Aunt
Susan told her that she had been a wife and mother, and what she had
suffered at the hands of a brutal husband, she was spellbound. For years
she had been deserted, but when one day he was supposed to be dying she
was sent for that he might beg her forgiveness. She went and found that
for four years he had been stone blind and that he had sunk so low that
she shrank from the squalid house in which he was living. She took him
away and stayed with him until his death, making the last days of his
life more bearable.

As the girl listened and thought of the old lady's goodness and how she
was visiting her and making over her old gowns, hats, etc., into