as
entirely dispelled, just as Cora said it would be when she breathed the
refreshing air of American freedom.

"So you are the Motor Girls?" she asked, trying to comprehend it all.

"They call us that," said Bess.

Then the porter announced supper, and at the table were seated fifty
guests--all to welcome back Cora and to sing the praises of the real,
live, up-to-date motor girls.

There is little more to tell. A few days later the house where Cora
had been held a prisoner was raided, but there was no one there; the
place had been stripped, and of Mother Hull and the unscrupulous men
not a trace remained.

But Tony Slavo was not so lucky. He was still in the clutches of the
law, and there he remained for a long time, for he was convicted of the
robbery of the Kimball cottage.

Cora arranged to have the gypsy girl, Lena, sent to a boarding school.
As for Lillian, who resumed her real name, Mr. Rand engaged a lawyer
for her, and most of the wealth left to her was recovered from another
band of gypsies who had control of it. So there was a prospect of new
happiness for her and Leland, who promised to give up his odd ways, at
least for a time.

Cora soon recovered from the effects of her captivity and she formed a
warm friendship for the former gypsy queen, even as did the other motor
girls.

"Oh, but wasn't it exciting, though?" exclaimed Bess one afternoon,
when, after leaving the Tip-Top Hotel they had resumed their tour
through New England. "I shall never forget how I felt when I saw Cora
coming down that rope from the window."

"Nor I, either," added Belle.

"I wonder----"

"Who's kissing her now?" interrupted Jack, with a laugh.

"Silly boy! I was going to say I wonder what will happen to us next
vacation."

"Hard to tell," declared Ed.

"Let's arrange for us boys to get lost, and for the girls to find us,"
proposed Walter.

"Don't consider yourselves of such importance," said Hazel, but she
blushed prettily.

"Oh, well, it's all in the game," declared Jack. "I feel in my bones
that something will happen."

It did, and what it was will be told in the next volume of this series,
to be entitled, "The Motor Girls on Cedar Lake; Or, The Hermit of Fern
Island." In that we will meet with the young ladies and their friends
again, and hear further of Cora's resourcefulness in times of danger.

The tour through New England came to an end one beautiful day, when,
after a picnic at a popular mou