CHAPTER 3FIRST TRIP
Peggy spent the next three days memorizing the “general information” section of the Skylines’ schedule that had been sent with her letter and pass. As Peggy waited at the Des Moines airport on Wednesday with her parents, Jane, and the nurses who’d come to see them off, she mentally checked off the items in the folder.
“Forty pounds of luggage—I wonder if our trunks will get there tomorrow? I emptied my fountain pen, because it said that at eight thousand feet or more they’d leak. Do you suppose we’ll go that high? Why, let’s see, that’s almost two miles up in the air! Daddy bought our trip insurance when he got his ticket—”
She had to forget her mental review, for at that moment Inez Hunt made a characteristic last-minute appearance.
Doctor Black’s roadster stopped
