such good fortune."
Barbara spoke so solemnly that her friends all laughed.

"But I have more news, and better news for you, Bab!" cried Mollie,
triumphantly, "mother is willing for us to bring Eunice home with us for
the winter!"

"Dear little Eunice!" Bab said, kissing the Indian girl.

"I shall never cease to be grateful to you and to your mother for this
kindness," declared Mr. Winthrop Latham, taking Barbara's hand. "You know
the difficult situation in which I am placed in regard to Eunice. I dare
not take the child home, at present, to live with my sister-in-law and my
nephew. It seemed even more cruel to send Eunice to boarding school while
the child knows nothing of the world. But, if your kind mother will keep
her with you, let her go to school, and teach her just a little of what
you know, I shall be deeply in your debt."

"No such thing, Mr. Latham!" laughed Mollie. "We are going to be in your
debt for lending us Eunice. Mother will just love her."

"But I am coming back next summer to see you and my grandmother?" Eunice
begged. "You said, if I were very good, you would take me to ride in your
balloon some day."

Mr. Latham laughed. "Eunice will never be happy until she learns to fly,"
he declared.

"I hate good-byes, don't you, Aunt Sallie?" Barbara asked Miss Stuart
that night. Ruth, Grace and Mollie were standing on a trunk trying to
fasten it. "The Automobile Girls" were to leave Lenox early the next
morning.

"Barbara, remember Ruth's motto for 'The Automobile Girls.' We are never
to say good-bye!"

"What then, Aunt Sallie?" asked Bab, Grace, Mollie and Ruth in chorus.

"'The Automobile Girls' are always to say," declared Miss Sallie, gently,
"not good-bye, but _Auf Wiedersehen_."

POSTSCRIPT

Nor need the reader break this rule against saying "good-bye," for our
same splendid "Automobile Girls" are soon to be met with again, under
astonishing and startling circumstances, and on historic ground. The next
volume in this series will be published under the title: "THE AUTOMOBILE
GIRLS ALONG THE HUDSON; Or, Fighting Fire in Sleepy Hollow." In this
spirited narrative, the girls will be shown doing the work of true
heroines, yet amid many scenes of fun and humor. Every reader will agree
that the coming book is "the best yet."

The End.

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