Betty, who was a real student, hated this, for on that day they were excused from study. But Millie, who found study difficult, wished that K. P. came five times a week.
Though Norma had sworn that the spy complex should not tempt her again, strange things happened, and always her mystery-loving mind would ask, “Why? Why?”
There was the time she went with the little Italian girl, Rosa, to visit the airport on their day off. Then, too, Betty more than once tempted her to start spy hunting all over again.
“I won’t!” she told herself. “I won’t! I just won’t!” Positive as she was at the time, Norma did not succeed long in keeping this resolution.
It was really Rosa’s strange and mysterious adventure at the airport that got her going all over again.
CHAPTER VIII
ROSA ALMOST FLIES
On the Saturday that Norma and Rosa went to visit the airfield they doffed their uniforms and put on their civies.
“All the same,” Norma said, “we’ll take along our identification cards, just in case—”
Airplanes, especially those flown by the Army Air Forces, had always interested Norma, so she was more than delighted when shortly after their arrival at the field, a flight of small, sleek fighter planes came winging in out of the blue.