little
Eunice back to the hotel in style. We have had a hard enough time getting
hold of her. Her old Indian grandmother would not have let us have the
child if it had not been for Naki. The Indian woman seems really to be
attached to Ceally and Naki."

"I am going to ask you a weeny little favor, Ruth. I won't tell you why I
ask you now; but I will tell you as soon as we are in the automobile.
Don't ask Bab to come with us for Eunice," Mollie entreated.

"Don't ask Bab? Why, Mollie!" protested Ruth, in surprise. "Bab's
feelings would be dreadfully hurt if I did not ask her."

"No, they won't, Ruth. I have already talked to Aunt Sallie. She told Bab
she wanted her to stay in the house this morning. Aunt Sallie thinks
Barbara is tired from her ride yesterday."

"Oh, very well, Mollie, I won't urge Bab to come with us, then; though I
can't understand why you don't want her along. I shall be glad when you
explain the mystery to me," Ruth concluded.

"That is why I wish to drive over with you. Sh! Aunt Sallie is coming.
Don't say anything before her."

"Ruth," explained Mollie, as the three girls were hurrying toward
Pittsfield in their motor car, "I want to tell you why I did not wish Bab
to come along with us to the hospital for Eunice. I don't know what you
and Grace may think of me; but I intend to try an experiment."

"An experiment, Mollie!" Grace exclaimed. "What experiment do you intend
to try?"

"Well girls," Mollie continued, "do you recall that Bab went driving, a
few days ago, with Reginald Latham, Mr. Winthrop Latham and Aunt Sallie?"

Ruth and Grace both nodded.

"And you remember Bab said she was going to discover, on that drive, what
connection Eunice had with the Latham family?"

"Yes," Grace assented. "Do hurry on to the point of your story."

"No; you must hear it all over again," Mollie protested. "I want you and
Ruth to remember just exactly the story Bab told us. Reginald Latham did
not wish the subject of Eunice mentioned before his uncle, because Mr.
Winthrop Latham's oldest brother had married an Indian girl. It seems the
brother met the Indian girl while he was studying the history of the
Indians in this neighborhood; so he just married her without mentioning
the fact to his family. Of course the Lathams, who were very rich and
very distinguished, were heart-broken over the marriage. And I guessed
they were not any too good to the poor little Indian woman, when Mr.
William Latham bro