[CHAPTER XXVIII]
JESS TO THE RESCUE
“Who are you talking to?” asked Jerry.
“Jess, of course,” replied Ned, greatly excited. “She’s outside. Jess! Jess!” he called again. “We are locked in the storeroom!”
The boys waited anxiously. Then, from without, came a whisper that sounded loudly through the darkened room.
“What has happened? Where is my uncle? Who are you?”
“It’s me; Ned,” was the reply, whispered from the prison. “They captured us! Have you a key? Can you let us out? How did you get away from Noddy?”
“Oh, this is terrible!” cried Jess. “How did it happen?”
She was standing under the small slit in the masonry that served to let air into the storeroom. The light from a lamp in the kitchen of the place streamed out from a window full on her, so Ned could see the girl plainly, though of course she could not see him.