Chapter 1. To The Front
_ CHAPTER I. TO THE FRONT
"I know it‘s utterly foolish and unreasonable," sighed Amy Blackford, laying down the novel she had been reading and looking wistfully out of the window, "but I simply can‘t help it."
"What‘s the matter?" asked Mollie Billette, raising her eyes reluctantly from a book she was devouring and looking vaguely at Amy‘s profile. "Did you say something?"
"No, she only spoke," drawled Grace Ford, extricating herself from a mass of bright-colored cushions on the divan, preparatory to joining in the conversation. "I ask you, Mollie, did you ever know Amy to say anything important?"
"Why yes, I have," said Mollie unexpectedly. "In fact, she is about the only one of us Outdoor Girls who ever does say anything important--except Betty, perhaps."
Amy withdrew her gaze from the landscape and looked at the speaker with a twinkle in her eyes.
"What will you have, Mollie?" she asked whimsically. "When you become complimentary, you are ap

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