“If I merely suspected that she was a spy, I’d wait and watch, that’s all,” had been her whole reply.
In the eyes of her examiners she had read approval. That’s what she was doing now—watching and waiting.
“All the same,” she told herself now, “I’m going to ask Rosa why she flashes that light at night.”
CHAPTER V
SPY COMPLEX
The next day three things happened. Norma saw her favorite Lieutenant. She asked Rosa a question and received a surprising reply, and Millie, the shopgirl who was in the Army now, led them all in an amusing adventure that might not have turned out so well.
In the afternoon they drilled as a squad, as a platoon, and as a company. It was a hard workout, but to Norma it was a thrilling adventure.
“All this is the real thing!” she exclaimed once.
“I’ll say it is!” Betty laughed. “These new shoes are burning up my feet!”
“It’s the real McCoy, all the same,” Norma insisted. “It’s what I’ve been training for all my life! My father thought it was just for fun, for after all, I was a girl.”