Part 24 (1/2)
”If you please, Miss Jessie,” he added, widely a-grin, ”either let Miss Aht when you both talk”
”Oh, I am dumb!” announced Amy ”Go ahead, Jess; you tell him”
So Jessie tried to put the case as plainly as possible; but froht that this was rather a fantastic matter
”Why, Chapman!” she cried, ”you do not know much about this radio business, do you?”
”Only what I have seen of it here, Miss Jessie I heard the music over your wires But I did not suppose that anybody could talk into the thing and other folks could hear like----”
”Oh! You don't understand,” Jessie interrupted ”No ordinary radio set broadcasts It merely receives”
As clearly as she could she explained what sort of plant there irl had sent out her cry for help
”Of course, you understand, the girl ot a chance on the sly to speak into the broadcasting horn Now, all the big broadcasting stations are registered with the Governents soon find theirl are the ones we think, theyout of inforht have so One of the wo and the other in auto plant is near a race course or an autodroive me an idea, Miss Jessie!” exclaimed Chapman suddenly ”I remember a stock farm over behind Parkville where the barns are painted red And there is a silo or two Besides, it is near the Harri, if you want to go Mr Noron't o, Aly
”Sure! It's a chance And I am awfully anxious now to find out what that mysterious voice means”
A PUZZLING CIRcumSTANCE
SOMETHING DOING AT THE STANLEY'S
CHAPTER XIX
A PUZZLING CIRcu away, Amy ran home and announced her desire to keep her chuain before ten o'clock There was not much to be heard over the airways after that hour They had missed Madame Elva and the orchestrato do but to go to bed,” Aet up and go looking for thestation Do you believe that cry for help was fro that it is,” Jessie adht to take Spotted Snake, the Witch, with us,” chuckled her chuht only raise hopes in the child's mind that will not be fulfilled I think she loves her cousin Bertha very irl whose cry for help we heard”
”We don't really know anything about it Maybe it is all a joke or a h she were joking?” was Jessie's scornful reply ”Anyill look into it alone first If Chapman can find the stock farm with the red barn----”
”And there are two fallen trees and a silo near it,” put in A ”Goodness me, Jess! I am afraid the boys would say we had another crazy notion”
”I like that!” cried Jessie Norwood ”What is there crazy about trying to help somebody who certainly must be in trouble? Besides,” she added very sensibly, ”Daddy Norill be very thankful to us if we should e to find that Bertha Blair He needs her to witness for his clients, and Moate cannot be postponed again The matter must soon be decided, and without Bertha Blair's testimony Daddy's clients may lose hundreds of thousands of dollars”
”We'll be off to the rescue of the prisoner in thedown into one of her chuht!
Sweet dreaet up and tie it to the bed-post”