said that in a year's time he should send her out cured. Poor Mr. and
Mrs. Hastings were overjoyed, while Mattie's gratitude knew no way to
express itself. She simply regarded Ethel and Patty with looks of
adoration, while in time they overcame their prejudice, Ethel even
kissing her goodbye.

There had been wrought in Ethel Hollister a great change. Much of her
pride and worldliness had dropped from her. She had gradually become an
earnest believer in truth despising all subterfuges and shams.

Upon her arrival home, Mrs. Hollister, while noting her new and splendid
health, was appalled at the change. From an obedient child, easily
convinced that no matter what her mother said was right, she had become
a girl of great character with ideas of her own. Mrs. Hollister angrily
denounced her mother-in-law and Aunt Susan, saying that it was their work
and that her child, for whom she had slaved all of her life, had become
wilful, stubborn and disobedient. "She even refuses to go into Society
this winter. She talks of taking up low down settlement work. She'll
end in becoming a suffragette, and standing on a soap box she'll address
the street rabble, perhaps wearing a large bonnet and standing beside a
kettle holiday time ringing a bell and holding out a tambourine,--a
Salvation Army woman. Oh! what a fool I was to let her go away from my
influence," and she sobbed,--"to toil and save for her to make a
brilliant match. See the way she rewards me. Why did I bring into this
world such an ungrateful child! It's all that wretched Camp Fire
business."

Then Ethel gently put her arm around her mother and told her that only
since she had been a Camp Fire girl had she appreciated how hard she had
worked for her. "I know, Mamma," she said, "how you and Papa, and even