, 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
Harrimay Race Course. I could drive over there in the morning, if you
want to go. Mr. Norwood won't mind, I am sure."

"Would you go, Amy?" Jessie asked, hesitatingly.

"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 CIRCUMSTANCE

Jessie's parents being away, Amy ran home and announced her desire to
keep her chum company and was back again before ten o'clock. There was
not much to be heard over the airways after that hour. They had missed
Madame Elva and the orchestra music broadcasted from Stratfordtown.

"Nothing to do but to go to bed," Amy declared. "The sooner we are
asleep the sooner we can get up and go looking for the mysterious
broadcasting station. Do you believe that cry for help was from little
Hen's cousin?"

"I have a feeling that it is," Jessie admitted.

"Maybe we ought to take Spotted Snake, the Witch, with us," chuckled
her chum. "What do you say?"

"I think not, honey. We might only raise hopes in the child's mind
that will not be fulfilled. I think she loves her cousin Bertha very
much; and of course we do not know that this is that girl whose cry
for help we heard."

"We don't really know anything about it. Maybe it is all a joke or a
mistake."

"Do you think that girl sounded as though she were joking?" was
Jessie's scornful reply. "Anyway, we will 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 Amy,
smiling. "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 Norwood will be very thankful to us if we should
manage to find that Bertha Blair. He needs her to witness for his
clients, and Momsy says the hearing before the Surrogate 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 the morning, then,"
said Amy, cuddling down