“Why couldn’t we, next time we come?” Belle said, catching at the new suggestion instantly.
“You don’t rig a radio outfit as simple as all that, do you?” Sally asked.
“You might bring your antenna rigged as a loop,” Jessie said quietly. “It would not take long to make the necessary connections.”
“Is that so?” Sally observed.
Belle broke in suddenly and called Sally Moon away. She was very eager, and the two friends held a long and private conversation. Amy and Jessie were not usually interested in the personal affairs of Belle and her chum, but it struck the Roselawn radio girls that Amy’s remark must have given Belle a new idea. They were to learn more about this later.
The renewal of the dancing gained the attention of all the party, and for an hour more the moonlit space before the Carter house continued a gay scene. Then it was eleven o’clock and Darry’s party, at least, thought it time to go home.
Jessie insisted that Henrietta and her party go back to Dogtown, too. The canoe which had been partly wrecked by Amy’s misfortune had been repaired very neatly by the oldest Foley boy and Monty Shannon.
“Really,” Amy said to her chum, “that Shannon boy is a smart little fellow. It’s too bad——”
“Hush! Don’t let’s say it,” whispered Jessie.
“I don’t know that we ought to try to hide it, if he did take that watch,” grumbled Amy.