plete their toilet that night lay
ready at hand. None of the three girls from Kingsbridge had dreamed that
they would ever possess such beautiful and exquisitely designed dresses.

But this was not their only surprise. A great box of roses was delivered
to the house while the girls were dressing. It was addressed to Miss
Barbara Thurston. With it there was a note reading:

"I always did love a fighter. What a trader you
would make! It was a fair fight, and you won.
NATHAN BONNER."

"No, it wasn't a fair fight. It was distinctly an unfair one," declared
Barbara. "I think I shall send these flowers back."

"I don't believe I would do that," advised Miss Sallie. "The flowers are
plainly intended as a tribute to you as a fighter, Bab, and the
acceptance of flowers is unlike the acceptance of any other gift."

So Barbara kept the roses.

The next day the "Automobile Girls'" party was broken up. The time for
Grace, Bab, and Mollie to return to Kingsbridge had arrived, to the keen
regret of both the young people and their elders. Mr. Stuart, with a
twinkle in his eyes, kept talking vaguely about "Easter," but what his
plans were, he would not say.

The wonderful Easter vacation that these plans developed into may be
read about in a following volume entitled, "THE AUTOMOBILE GIRLS AT PALM
BEACH; or, Proving Their Mettle Under Southern Skies," a vacation never
to be forgotten by the "Automobile Girls."

THE END

_And There Are Others!_

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[Illustration]

Dave Darrin and Dan Dalzell proved their mettle at the U. S. Naval
Academy and gave promise of what might be expected of them in the great
war that was even at that moment hovering over the world.

=1. DAVE DARRIN'S FIRST YEAR AT ANNAPOLIS; or, Two
Plebe Midshipmen at the U. S. Naval Academy.=

=2. DAVE DARRIN'S SECOND YEAR AT ANNAPOLIS; or,
Two Midshipmen as Naval Academy "Youngsters."=

=3. DAVE DARRIN'S THIRD YEAR AT ANNAPOLIS; or,
Leaders of the Second Class Midshipmen.=

=4. DAVE DARRIN'S FOURTH YEAR