"To-morrow," Miss Stuart replied quietly. "I would not advise you to delay."
"Will you go with me to see her at ten o'clock to-morrow morning, Miss Stuart?" queried Mr. Latham.
"I beg of you then not to mention what has taken place in this room this afternoon," Mr. Latham urged. "When we know the truth in regard to this child it will be time to tell the strange story. Good-bye until to-morrow morning."
"Mollie," Bab cried as soon as the door closed on Mr. Latham, "I surrender. And I humbly beg your pardon. You are a better detective than I am. What is the discovery of the Boy Raffles compared with your bringing to light the family history of poor little Eunice! Just think, instead of being a poor, despised Indian girl, Eunice is heiress to a large fortune."
"Then you believe in me now, Bab!" Mollie rejoined. "I have always thought Eunice was in some way connected with the Latham family."
"Girls," Miss Stuart cautioned quietly, "when you take Eunice to her grandmother, at Naki's house, say nothing. Remember, you are to speak to no one of what happened this afternoon."
Immediately after breakfast, next morning, "The Automobile Girls" started in Ruth's car for Naki's house in Pittsfield.
Miss Stuart had decided that it would be best to have Eunice out of the way when she and Mr. Latham made their call on the grandmother.
They were in splendid spirits as they approached Naki's house. No one of them doubted, for an instant, that Mr. Winthrop Latham would find little Eunice was his niece.
"You run in and ask the grandmother whether Eunice may take a ride with us, Mollie," Ruth suggested as she stopped her car. "If Naki is at home, ask him to step out here a minute. I want to prepare him for the call of Aunt Sallie and Mr. Latham."
In three minutes Mollie flew out of the house again. She was alone. There was no sign of Eunice!
"O girls!" Mollie cried, "Eunice and her grandmother are gone!"
"Back to their own wigwam!" Mollie continued. "Last night Ceally says a woman, heavily veiled, came here, accompanied by a young man. They talked to the Indian woman and Eunice a long time. They told the squaw a man was in pursuit of her. He would come this morning to take her away. She was so frightened that Naki and Ceally could do nothing to influence her. She started with Eunice, last night, for their wigwam in the hills. Who do you think her visitors were?"