Their Host Led the Way Through the Outer Court into the Enclosed One Their Host Led the Way Through the Outer Court into the Enclosed One On One Occasion Gerry and Felipe Discovered that They were Actually Dancing Alone On One Occasion Gerry and Felipe Discovered that They were Actually Dancing Alone As Mrs. Burton Drew Near She Recognized One of Them as Dan Webster As Mrs. Burton Drew Near She Recognized One of Them as Dan Webster The Camp Fire Girls Behind the Lines CHAPTER I "El Camino Real" El Camino Real A small cavalcade was slowly winding down a steep, white road. The bare, brown hills rose up on one side like the earth's friars of St. Francis, while on the other, at some distance away, the Pacific Ocean showed green and still. Near the shore the waves broke into white sprites of foam against the deep, incurving cliffs. A girl riding at the head of the column reined in her horse, afterwards making a mysterious sign in the air with one upraised hand. In answer to her signal the other riders, a group of Camp Fire girls, also stopped their horses. Across many miles sounded faintly the deep-toned voices of old mission bells. "I believe the mission is ringing a farewell to us," one of the girls remarked to the companion whose western pony had stopped nearest her own. "To me, of all the Spanish missions we have seen so far, Carmel was the loveliest. 'Carmelo'—why, the very name has an enchanting sound! "Bells of the Past, whose long-forgotten music Still fills the wide expanse, Tingeing the sober twilight of the Present
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