The ticket office opened to the right and Jane stepped up to the window. The night manager looked up from his desk.
“We are the nurses from Good Samaritan that Miss Hardy phoned about. We’re to go out on the eastbound plane for Chicago,” she explained.
The night manager swung around to his ticket rack and made out the passes for their transportation to Chicago. He was efficient but pleasant.
“You’ll have to sign permits releasing the system from liability in case of accident. Of course this isn’t required from regular passengers, but you are traveling free.”
Both Jane and Sue signed the papers he placed before them.
“I’m making out round trip passes,” he said. “In case you don’t get the jobs, you’ll be able to get back here.”
Jane wasn’t sure there was much consolation in that for there was probably more chance of getting a job in Chicago than in University City.
The night manager stepped into the dispatcher’s office to inquire the position of the eastbound plane.
“Your ship will be here in about nine minutes. How about baggage?”
“We have small pieces,” replied Sue.