us?" Then she, too, saw Amy and Jessie approaching. "Oh, well,"
Belle sneered, "if the children need you, I suppose you have to go."

Burd, who stood by, developed a spasm of laughter when he saw Amy's
expression of countenance, but Jessie got her chum away before there
came any further explosion.

"Never you mind!" muttered Amy. "I know you've got her beaten with
your radio show. You see!"

It proved to be true--this prophecy of Amy's. The committee, adding up
the intake of the various booths, reported that the radio tent had
been by far the most profitable of any of the various money-making
schemes. By that time the booths were entirely dismantled and almost
everybody had gone home.

Belle and her friends had lingered on the Norwood veranda, however, to
hear the report. It seemed that Belle had not achieved all that she
had desired, although with the restaurant department, her stand had
won a splendid profit. Of course, the money taken in at the radio tent
was almost all profit.

"She just thought of that wireless thing so as to make the rest of us
look cheap," Belle was heard to say to her friends. "Isn't that always
the way when we come up here to the Norwoods'? Jess skims the cream of
everything. I'll never break my back working for a church
entertainment again if the Norwoods have anything to do with it!"

Unfortunately Jessie heard this. It really spoiled the satisfaction
she had taken in the fact that her idea, and her radio set, had made
much money for a good cause. She stole away from her chum and the
other young people and went rather tearfully to bed.

Of course, she should not have minded so keenly the foolish talk of an
impertinent and unkind girl. But she could not help wondering if other
people felt as Belle said she felt about the Norwoods. Jessie had
really thought that she and Daddy and Momsy were very popular people,
and she had innocently congratulated herself upon that fact.

The morning brought to Jessie Norwood more contentment. When Momsy
told her how the ladies of the bazaar committee had praised Jessie's
thoughtfulness and ingenuity in supplying the radio entertainment, she
forgot Belle Ringold's jealousy and went cheerfully to work to help
clear up the grounds and the house. Her radio set was moved back to
her room and she restrung the wires and connected up the receiver
without help from anybody.

When Mr. Norwood came home that evening both she and Momsy noticed at
once that he