“You can’t, not in our ship. This ship goes straight through to China.”
“I’d like to see those fighting boys. That—well, that would be sort of a reward.”
“I might be able to fix it,” he conceded. “Anyway, I’ll try. Now you run along and have a good time with your new friends. You’ve got it coming.”
“My best times always come in the hardest places.” She was still thinking of Burma. For all that she left the plane to join Judy Pierce in her bright little sport car.
CHAPTER XIII
SNAKE CHARMER
“It would really be a shame to pass right through India without seeing any of it,” Judy said as they slid smoothly over a paved street.
“Yes, I suppose so,” Mary agreed. “But business is business. We haven’t much time. I must always be in touch with Sparky.”
“We’ll arrange it that way,” Judy promised. “We’ll not be away from the phone more than an hour at any time.”
“That will be swell. You see, we have part of a ship load of quinine.”