Girls of the Forest

CHAPTER I.

THE GUEST WHO WAS NEITHER OLD NOR YOUNG.

It was a beautiful summer's afternoon, and the girls were seated in a circle on the lawn in front of the house. The house was an old Elizabethan mansion, which had been added to from time to time--fresh additions jutting out here and running up there. There were all sorts of unexpected nooks and corners to be found in th...