e aerial wires with the rope to the
roof of the old tower. It will enable us to make the far end of the
aerials higher than my window--you see?"

"Necessary point; I observe. Go ahead, Miss Seymour."

"Please don't call me 'Miss Seymour,'" objected Jessie, frowning. "For
the poor thing has a wart on her nose."

"No use at all there. Not even as a collar-button," declared Amy. "All
right; you are not Miss Seymour. And, come to think of it, I wonder
if it was Miss Seymour I was thinking of last night when I thought
that woman driving the kidnappers' car looked like somebody I knew? Do
you think----?"

"Oh! That horrid woman! I don't dislike Miss Seymour, you know, Amy,
even if she does teach English. I think she is almost handsome beside
that motor-car driver. Yes, I do."

"Wart and all?" murmured Amy.

But they were both too deeply interested in the radio to linger long
on other matters. They laid out the work for the next morning, but did
nothing practical toward erecting the wires and attendant parts that
day. Amy came over immediately after breakfast, dressed in her
farmerette costume, which was, in truth, a very practical suit in
which to work.

The girls even refused the help of the gardener. He said they would be
unable to raise the heavy ladder to the tower window; and that was a
fact.

"All right," said the practical Jessie, "then we won't use the
ladder."

"My! I am not tall enough to reach the things up to you from the
ground, Jess," drawled Amy.

"Silly!" laughed her friend. "I am going up there to the top window in
the tower. I can stand on the window sill and drive in the hook, and
hang the aerial from there. See! We've got it all fixed on the ground
here. I'll haul it up with another rope. You stay down here and tie it
on. You'll see."

"Well, don't fall," advised Amy. "The ground is hard."

It had been no easy matter for the two girls to construct their
aerial. The wire persisted in getting twisted and they had all they
could do to keep it from kinking. Then, too, they wanted to fasten the
porcelain insulators just right and had to consult one of the books
several times. Then there came more trouble over the lead-in wire,
which should have been soldered to the aerial but was only twisted
tight instead.

The girls worked all the forenoon. When one end of the aerial was
attached properly to the tower, Amy ran in and upstairs to her chum's
room and dropped a length of rope from one of the w