“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.