Jane and Sue replied in unison and Miss Hardy picked up the telephone directory and after ascertaining the number of the local field of the Federated line, dialed the airport.
The night operations manager answered and Miss Hardy informed him that she had two graduate nurses who needed transportation to Chicago for an interview with the personnel officer.
“When do you think we’ll go in?” Sue whispered to the supervisor.
“That will depend on when there is space,” replied Miss Hardy. “I expect that since you will be traveling on passes it will be a day or two.”
Sue thought of the small sum in cash she had and wondered just how she would subsist in Chicago if she failed to get the job as stewardess.
Miss Hardy jotted several notations on the pad beside her phone, thanked the operations manager, and looked up at the girls.
“The first plane eastbound for Chicago with room for you will be through at three o’clock this morning. That will get you there shortly after seven. Can you get ready by that time?”
“We can be ready in half an hour,” gasped Jane.
“I thought you could. That’s why I told the operations manager to arrange for your passage on the three o’clock plane.”
“I’ll have to finish packing,” said Sue.