“Nancy,” Sally whispered tensely, “will you be the one who can be trusted? Will you join me in testing C. K.’s radios?”
“Why, I—” Nancy hesitated. “Yes! Yes, I will. You are my friend. C. K. is my friend. I also love America, and want to help, so why not?”
And that is how it came about that, as they walked slowly back to their staterooms on a ship that was a ship in name only, Sally and Nancy talked of radio and of the day when they would be full-fledged WAVES serving their country.
“And here’s hoping they put us on an honest-to-goodness ship!” Sally exclaimed.
“Here’s hoping,” Nancy echoed.
CHAPTER THREE
A MESSAGE IN CODE
In the meantime, with a worried look still on her face, Barbara sat at a small table drinking hot chocolate while her companion, in the chic blue WAVES suit, enjoyed a coke.
“Hot chocolate will make you fat,” said Belle Mason, Barbara’s new friend.
“I’m fat already,” Barbara smiled. “An even hundred and fifty.”
“You’re big, not fat,” her companion corrected. “That’s not a bad weight at all for your height. What are you to do for the WAVES?”