Thus remarked Mr. Lagg.  The crowd of young people were in his store, stocking up the Gem for a resumption of her cruise on Rainbow Lake.  It was several days after the finding of the missing saddle and the papers.  The latter had been sent to Mr. Ford, Prince had been swum across to the mainland and sent home, and the news about little Dodo had been confirmed.  The child would fully recover, and not even be lame.

“Oh, what a fine time we’ve had!” exclaimed Grace, as she waltzed about the store with Amy.

“Well, the summer isn’t over yet by any means,” spoke Mollie.  “And there is the glorious Fall to come.  I wonder what we shall do then?”

And what they did do may be ascertained by reading the next volume of this series, to be called “The Outdoor Girls in a Motor Car; Or, The Haunted Mansion of Shadow Valley,” in which we will meet all our old friends again, and some new ones.

“All aboard!” called Betty, as she led the way down to the dock where the Gem awaited them.  Each one was carrying a bundle of supplies, for they expected to cruise for about a week.

They boarded the motor boat.  Betty threw over the lever of the self-starter.  The engine responded promptly.  As the clutch slipped in, white foam showed at the stern where the industrious propeller whirled about.  The Gem slid away from the dock.

“Good-bye!  Good-bye!” called the boys and girls to Mr. Lagg.

“Good-bye!” he answered, waving his red handkerchief at them.  Then he recited.

  “As you sail o’er the bounding sea,
   Pause now and then and think of me. 
   I’ve many things for man and beast,
   From chocolate drops to compressed yeast.”

“Good!” shouted Will, laughing.

And Betty swung around the wheel to avoid the two boys whose canoe Mollie had so strangely found, as the Gem, continued her cruise down Rainbow Lake.  And here, for a time, we, too, like Mr. Lagg, will say farewell to our friends.

 The end

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