“You don’t know how to receive in code, do you? It’s not difficult. Get someone there to teach you.
“I agree with you that an outside aerial will help bring out the sounds. But don’t take too many chances just to make an old man’s dream come true.
Yours for success,
C. K.”
“Too many chances!” Sally exploded after reading the letter. “There couldn’t possibly be too many chances.”
That very night she started taking the chances.
It was a cloudy, windy night. “Just the night for a murder,” Sally whispered to Nancy as they embarked on their enterprise.
“Or something,” Nancy agreed.
It was Saturday. All the WAVES have Saturday afternoon and night off for shore leave. Most of them would be away so there would be few prying eyes. That was why they had picked on this night for connecting the black boxes with the aerial set up on the roof.
The wires running from Sally’s room up to Nancy’s and to the attic were in place. The lock to the attic door was old. Nancy had solved that with a skeleton key bought at the five and ten.
“There’s no counting of noses at bedcheck tonight,” Sally said. “So we’ll start work at ten. You can be the lookout and I’ll do the work.”