It was all make-believe to me, but it was dead earnest to the dog, and he did his part as faithfully as any soldier who ever wore a uniform." "You're right," said a young lieutenant, sitting near.

"If for no other reason than that he was in the service of the Red Cross, he has a right to the respect of every man that calls himself a soldier, no matter what flag he follows." Later in the morning, when the orderly rode into the little picnic camp, the girls were away.

They were down by the waterfall digging ferns and mosses to take home.

"We are thinking of breaking up camp this afternoon," Mrs.Walton told him.

"The weather looks so threatening that I have sent for the wagonette to come for us, and I was about to send over to your camp to see if Hero had wandered back there.