I must see
Sarah."
"Do you have to straighten that matter out also? Well, Little Captain, I
am afraid you have a busy time of it. When one is willing to help others
it is perfectly surprising how much they can find to do."
"But you see, daddy, someone has to do it,"
"Exactly. I have no objections to you mixing up in school girl affairs;
in fact I think that line of work quite as important as book learning.
It is the best kind of education, for it fits one for their place in
life: but I think, daughter, it might be best for you to give up helping
in the crusade. I would rather not have you risk--perhaps insults in
that work."
"Of course, if you wish it father," answered Dorothy in a disappointed
tone, "but if I could just help out in what Ralph had planned for the
girls--a sort of auxiliary work--I would like it. The meetings would be
held in the afternoon, and we would have little benefit affairs, to help
defray the expenses of the League."
"Oh, that sort of thing," agreed the major, "that would be all right and
strictly in a girl's line. Everybody should show sympathy with the
movement, for it means more to Dalton than we can estimate. Children,
particularly, will be benefited, so that there can be no objection to
them helping in their own way."
Dorothy felt greatly relieved now that her father had spoken on this
subject, for she had feared he would ask her to give up, entirely, the
temperance work she had become so interested in.
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