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Tim was utterly amazed, not so much that her father believed the malarkey his daughter was telling him, but that she could think of such a blatant, complex, out-and-out lie on the spur of the moment. Her father was a confirmed city dweller and Sally's tall tales didn't sound too strange to him. He gave only one indication that he might not believe what she had told him. The events he seemed to swallow but the time element was more difficult. "Dear," be said to the girl, "you mean you learned all that from this gentleman during a single day in the field?" She completely devastated him this time. "Scout's honor," she said, holding up the same finger sign Dana had given to indicate she was telling the truth. "What's that honey?" her father asked. "I learned that today, too," she told him. "It means what you say is true by the honor of the Campfire Girl who says it." Her father beamed. He had been won over. He congratulated the other girls, Tim, Miss Kressler, and everybody concerned with the camp. He assured them that he would be sending Sally back to camp the following year ...»