here did you leave that _Marigold_?" the sister demanded from her
window. "You boys go 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 came home by train. Mark has
the laugh on us."

Fortunately the cook was already downstairs and Amy put on a negligee
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 something doing in
this neighborhood, too. At least, our neighbors have been doing
something. Do you know, Darry, Jess is bound to find that lost girl we
were telling you about? Mr. Norwood goes into court to-day on that
Ellison case, and he admits himself that he has very little chance of
winning without the testimony of Bertha Blair."

"Fine name," drawled Darry. "Sounds like a movie actress."

"Let me tell you," Amy said eagerly.

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,"
complained his sister.

"Is she hanging around here yet?" demanded Darry. "I don't want to see
that girl. I know I'm going to say something unpleasant to her yet."

"She is right after you, just the same," Amy said, suddenly giggling.
She told about the coming moonlight box-party down the lake.

"We'll go right 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 chum.

"Tell you what," he said, looking at Burd, "we'll hang around long
enough to ride over to the stock farm with the girls, 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 Drew slowly. "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

A RADIO TRICK