Part 25 (1/2)
”There may be somebody on watch,” Jessie hissed ”They will suspect us And if it is either of those wonize you”
”Cat's foot!” ejaculated Ans of occupancy about the house Nor is there anybody working around the place It looks abandoned”
”We don't know If the poor girl is shut up here----”
”Where?” snapped Amy
”Perhaps in the house”
”Perhaps in the barn,” scoffed her chum ”Anyway, everyof that tower, both the lower and the upper stories, is shuttered on the outside”
”Maybe that is where Bertha is confined--if it is Bertha”
”But, honey! Where is the radio? There is nothing but a telephone wire in sight There is no wireless plant here”
”Dear ht place?”
The car was now getting away from the Gandy premises Jessie had to confess that there was no suspicious looking wiring anywhere about the house or outbuildings
”It does not seeh that could be the place after all What do you think, Chapain ”Don't you think that place looked deserted?”
”It often does between racing seasons, Miss Jessie,” the man said
”Whoever owns it now does not occupy it all the year”
Suddenly Jessie sat up very straight and her face flaain with excitee near? And a real estate office?”
”Harriht over the hills, Miss Jessie,” said the chauffeur
”Drive there at once, please,” said the girl ”And stop at the office of the first real estate agent whose sign you see”
”For goodness sake, Jess!” drawled A, ”you don't mean to buy the Gandy farm, do you?”
CHAPTER XX
SOMETHING DOING AT THE STANLEYS'
Chapman drove the automobile down into Harrimay only ten minutes later It was a pretty but rather soreen-blinded houses and two or three stores along both sides of an oiled highway It was a long ten-minute jitney ride from the railway station
”Perkins, Real Estate” faced the travelers froe Chaper Jessie hopped out