Part 30 (1/2)
”Provided,” added Aot Henrietta to bed She went to sleep with the silk dress hanging over a chair within reach After Aone home Jessie retired with much more worriment upon her mind than little Henrietta had upon hers
Everybody was astir early about the Norwood and Drew places in Roselawn that nextAt the former house Jessie and Henrietta aroused everybody At the Drew place ”two old salts,” as A in from a taxi-cab and disturbed the repose of the faold_?” the sister deo off on that yacht, supposedly to stay a year, and get back in forty-eight hours You turn up like a couple of bad pennies You----”
”Chop it, Sis,” Darry advised ”See if you can get a bite fixed for a couple of started castaways The engine went dead on us and we sailed into Barnegat last night and all hands cah on us”
Fortunately the cook was already downstairs and Aee and ran down to sit with the boys in the breakfast room and listen to the tale of their adventures
”Oh! But,” she said, after a while, ”there's been sohbors have been doing soirl ere telling you about? Mr Norwood goes into court to-day on that Ellison case, and he ad without the testimony of Bertha Blair”
”Fine name,” drawled Darry ”Sounds like a erly
She related how she and Jessie had tried to find Bertha after hearing what they believed to be the lost girl's voice out of the air Darry and Burd listened with increasing wonder
”What won't you kids do next?” gasped Darry
”I wish you wouldn't call us kids You are as bad as Belle Ringold,”
co around here yet?” de to say soht after you, just the sa
She told about the coht back to the _Marigold_, Burd,” said Darry promptly
”Home is no place for us But tell us what else you did, Sis”
When Amy had finished her tale her brother was quite serious
Particularly was he anxious to help Jessie, for he thought a good deal of his sister's chu at Burd, ”we'll hang around long enough to ride over to the stock farirls, sha'n't we?”
”What do you think you can do more than they have done?” asked Burd, with some scorn
”I have an idea,” said Darry Drely ”I think it is a good one
It even beats using that little Hen Haney for a bait Listen here”
And he proceeded to tell them
A RADIO TRICK
CHAPTER XXIV