Chapter I: Front Matter

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THE
LIBERTY GIRL

BY
RENA I. HALSEY

Author of “Blue Robin, the Girl Pioneer”
and “America’s Daughter”

ILLUSTRATED BY NANA FRENCH BICKFORD

BOSTON
LOTHROP, LEE & SHEPARD CO.

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Published, August, 1919

Copyright, 1919
By Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Co.

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All rights reserved

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THE LIBERTY GIRL

Norwood Press

BERWICK & SMITH CO.
NORWOOD, MASS.
U. S. A.

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INSCRIBED,
WITH DEEP APPRECIATION,

TO

THE SONS OF LIBERTY,—

ALL THOSE SOLDIERS, SEAMEN, AND AIRMEN,
WHO HAVE HEROICALLY GIVEN OF
THEIR BEST FOR THE
BROTHERHOOD
OF MAN

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CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE
I “God Speed You” 11
II Giving Her Best 28
III The Liberty Girls 46
IV The Liberty Garden 60
V The Liberty Pageant 73
VI The Strange Letter 89
VII The Visit to Camp Mills 106
VIII Seven Pillars 121
IX The Little Old Lady in the Red House 133
X The Sweet-Pea Ladies 147
XI The Ride Through the Notch 164
XII Nathalie’s Liberty Boys 179
XIII “The Mountains with the Snowy Foreheads” 194
XIV “Sons of Liberty” 211
XV The Gallery of the Gods 222
XVI Butternut Lodge 238
XVII The Cabin on the Mountain 256
XVIII The Liberty Cheer 275
XIX “The White Comrade” 288
XX The Liberty Tea 302
XXI The Funnies 322
XXII The Man in the Woods 334
XXIII A Mystery Solved 348
XXIV The Winner of the Prize 362

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ILLUSTRATIONS

“Ah there, girls! How are you?” (Page 11) Frontispiece

FACING PAGE
“My name is Liberty,
My throne is Law” 76

“Is that your dog? Oh, I love dogs!” 184

The girl found herself gazing into the
sun-tanned face of a young man in khaki 232

Nathalie bent over in anxious solicitude 260

“Oh, it is Philip, my son!” 476

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THE LIBERTY GIRL