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I THEY HEAR A VOICE 1
II A ROAD MYSTERY 11
V THE FRECKLE-FACED GIRL 39
VI SOMETHING COMING 49
X THE PRIZE IDEA 82
XX SOMETHING DOING AT THE STANLEYS' 156
THE RADIO GIRLS OF ROSELAWN
THEY HEAR A VOICE
"Oh, it's wonderful, Amy! Just wonderful!"
The blonde girl in the porch swing looked up with shining eyes and flushed face from her magazine to look at the dark girl who swung composedly in a rocking chair, her nimble fingers busy with the knitting of a shoulder scarf. The dark girl bobbed her head in agreement.
"So's the Sphinx, but it's awfully out of date, Jess."
"Why don't you say 'drew' to my attention?" murmured the other girl.
"Because I perfectly loathe puns," declared Jessie, with energy.
"Good! Miss Seymour's favorite pupil. Go on about the wonder beast, Jess."
"It is no beast, I'd have you understand. And it is right up to date--the very newest thing."
"My dear Jessie," urged her chum, gayly, "you have tickled my curiosity until it positively wriggles! What is the wonder?"
"Radio!"
"Oh! Wireless?"
"Wireless telephone. Everybody is having one."
"Grandma used to prescribe sulphur and molasses for that."
"That reminds me. Darry knows all about it."
"About what?"
"The radio telephone business. You know he was eighteen months on a destroyer in the war, even if he was only a kid. You know," and Amy giggled, "he says that if women's ages are always elastic, it was no crime for him to stretch his age when he enlisted. Anyhow, he knows all about the 'listening boxes' down in the hold. And that is all this radio is."
"Oh, but Amy!" cried Jessie, with a toss of her blond head, "that is old stuff. The radio of to-day is very different--much improved. Anybody can have a receiving set and hear the most wonderful things out of the air. It has been brought to every home."
"'Have you a little radio in your home?'" chuckled Amy, her fingers still flying.
"Dear me, Amy, you are so difficult," sighed her chum.
"Not at all, not at all," replied the other girl. "You can understand me, just as e-e-easy! But you know, Jess, I have to act as a brake for your exuberance."
"Don't care," declared Jessie. "I'm going to have one."
"If cook isn't looking, bring one for me, too," suggested the irrepressible joker.
"I mean to have a radio set," repeated Jessie quite seriously. "It says in this magazine article that one can erect the aerials and all, oneself. And place the instrument. I am going to do it."
"Sure you can," declared Amy, with confidence. "If you said you could rebuild the Alps--and improve on them--I'd root for you, honey."
"I don't want any of your joking," declared Jessie, with emphasis. "I am in earnest."
"Now, Amy Drew! Who said anything about the Alps?"
"I did," confessed her chum. "And I was about to suggest that, if you tackle the job of rebuilding them, you flatten 'em out a good bit so Aunt Susan can get across them easier."
"Amy Drew! Will you ever have sense?"
"What is it, a conundrum? Something about 'Take care of the dollars and the cents will take care of themselves?'"
"I am talking about installing a radio set in our house. And if you don't stop funning and help me do it, I won't let you listen in, so there!"
"It has to be sent from a broadcasting station," announced Jessie.
"There's one right in this town," declared Amy, with vigor.
"No!"
Amy painfully writhed in her chair at this point. "Say not so, Jess!" she begged. "Get lectures enough at school--and from dad, once in a while, when the dear thinks I go too far."
"I think you go too far most of the time," declared her chum primly. "Nobody else would have the patience with you that I have."
"Except Burd Alling," announced Amy composedly. "He thinks I am all right."
"Pooh! Whoever said Burd Alling had good sense?" demanded Jessie. "Now listen!" She read a long paragraph from the magazine article. "You see, it is the very latest thing to do. Everybody is doing it. And it is the most wonderful thing!"
Amy had listened with more seriousness. She could be attentive and appreciative if she wished. The paragraph her chum read was interesting.
"Go ahead. Read some more," she said. "Is that all sure enough so, Jess?"
"Of course it is so. Don't you see it is printed here?"
"I am going to get a book about it, and that will tell us just what to do in getting a radio set established."
"I'll tell you the first thing to do," scoffed Amy. "Dig down into your pocketbook."
"It won't cost much. But I mean to have a good one."
"All right, dear. I am with you. Never let it be said I deserted Poll. What is the first move?"
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