“Why, why!” gasped the good doctor. “I can hardly believe Nell would be so careless.”
“Oh, it isn’t Nell,” Jessie said, following her chum. “It is the boys.”
“But she always knows what the boys are up to, and Sally, too,” declared the minister, confident of his capable daughter’s oversight of the family.
The girls raced up the two flights. They smelled the smoke strongly as they mounted the second stairway to the garret. Then they heard voices.
“They’ve got it right in the old lumber room, Jess!” panted Amy. 165
“But why don’t they give the alarm?”
“Trying to put it out themselves. We ought to have brought buckets!”
“There is no water on this floor!”
Amy banged open the door of the big room in which they knew, by the arrangement of the outside wires, Bob and Fred must have set up the radio set. Amy plunged in, with Jessie right behind her. The room was unpleasantly filled with smoke.
“Why don’t you put it out?” shrieked Amy, and then began to cough.