The light blinked out and Barbara’s head came out from beneath the covers.
“I’m sorry!” Barbara whispered back. “These studies are so hard and there are so many of them I never get caught up. So I’ve been studying with a flashlight under the covers. No one would know it but you.”
“Such determination!” Sally exclaimed in a low voice. “You should have a medal or something. But you’ll smother!”
“Oh, no!” Barbara laughed. “I’m like a seal. I come up for air.”
“Anyway it’s an idea,” said Sally. Hopping out of bed, she gathered in her precious radio and, with a bed cover for a tent, studied the “put-puts” for another hour.
Barbara’s Head Came Out From Beneath the Covers
The close of that hour found her thoroughly disgusted. On a paper she had made a few marks. When she had compared these to the code marks for letters and figures, they added up to exactly nothing.
“Terrible,” she thought. “I know what I’ll do. I’ll take the radio over to the lab and show it to Danny. I’m sure he can be trusted. We’ll work things out together.”