rty.

"I hope they will make enough to pay Doctor Stanley's salary," Darry
said.

"We want to raise his salary," Jessie told him. "With all those
children I don't see how he gets on."

"He wouldn't 'get on' at all if it wasn't for Nell," said Amy warmly.
"She is a wonderful manager."

The boys departed for City Island and the _Marigold_ the next
morning; but they promised to return from their trip to Atlantic
Highlands in season for the church bazaar.

For the next few days Jessie and Amy were busy almost all day long,
and evening too, with the radio. They even listened to the weather
predictions and the agricultural report and market prices!

The Norwood home never had been so popular before. People, especially
Jessie's school friends, were coming to the house constantly to look
at the radio set and to "listen in" on the airways. The interest they
all took in it was amusing.

"You see, Momsy," laughed Jessie, when she and her mother were alone
one day, "if my radio set were downstairs here, I wouldn't have much
use of it. Even old Mrs. Grimsby has been in twice to talk about it,
and yesterday she came upstairs to try it."

"But she won't have one in her house," Mrs. Norwood said. "I don't
know--I didn't think of it before, Jessie. But do you suppose it is
safe?"

"Suppose what is safe, dear?"

"Having all those wires outside the house? Mrs. Grimsby says she would
not risk it."

"Why not, for mercy's sake?" cried Jessie.

"Lightning. When we had a shower yesterday I was really frightened.
Those wires might draw lightning."

"But, _dear!_" gasped Jessie. "Didn't I show you the lightning
switch?"

"Yes, child. I told Mrs. Grimsby about that. Do you know what she
said?"

"Something funny, I suppose?"

"She said she wouldn't trust a little thing like that to turn God's
lightning if He wanted to strike this house."

"O-oh!" gasped Jessie. "What a dreadful idea she must have of the
Creator. I'm going to tell Doctor Stanley that."

"I guess the good doctor has labored with Mrs. Grimsby more than once
regarding her harsh doctrinal beliefs. However, the fact that such
wires may draw lightning cannot be gainsaid."

"Oh, dear, me! I hope you won't worry Momsy. It can't be so, or there
would be something about it in the radio papers and in those books. In
one place I saw it stated that the aerials were really preventative of
lightning striking the house."

"I know. They used to have lightning rods on ho