Mrs. Witherspoon Goes to War by Mary Davis

Author:Mary Davis [Davis, Mary]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781636091587
Publisher: Barbour Publishing, Inc.
Published: 2022-12-15T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 17

Standing outside Major Berg’s office, Peggy straightened the belted jacket of her dress uniform. She would be taken more seriously if she weren’t decked out like a clown in her oversized zoot suit. Her disobedience in not disclosing the note she picked up in Cuba would likely change his fondness for her, but this was the right thing to do. If soldiers were in danger, she couldn’t sit by doing nothing because her feelings might get hurt.

She held the desk sergeant’s gaze. “I’m here to see Major Berg. I don’t have an appointment, but it is urgent.”

With an armload of folders, Sergeant Miller tipped his head. “Go on in. He’s expecting you.” He headed down the corridor.

She crinkled her eyebrows. Expecting her? That couldn’t be right. She went to the door and knocked.

“Come in.”

She smoothed her hands down her painstakingly pressed wool-gabardine skirt before opening the door.

The major stood from his seat behind the desk. “Come in. Close the door.”

Why didn’t he seem surprised to see her? Her insides tightened. Did he know? When she turned to shut the door, she saw the reason. Jolene and Brownie sat in chairs off to the side.

Jolene gave a forced smile. “We figured you would try to come without us, so we arrived early.”

Brownie nodded.

How had they known when she would come? Irrelevant.

The major motioned toward the chair directly across from his desk. “Please have a seat.”

She would rather stand, given the circumstances.

He shifted his weight. “Please.”

She remembered his leg injury and sat. Fortunately he hadn’t ordered her.

He retook his seat and laced his hands together. “Now tell me what this is all about.”

She glanced at her comrades. “They didn’t tell you, sir?”

He shook his head. “They said you were the pilot of this presentation. It must be interesting if they don’t want to be left out.”

Interesting wasn’t the word Peggy would use to describe it. “It’s not a presentation, sir. It might be nothing at all.” She hoped it was nothing, because then three men’s lives wouldn’t be in danger.

“It has to be something, or you wouldn’t have come to me, and the three of you wouldn’t look as though you’d been caught swiping an extra cookie.”

It was slightly more important than a cookie. If it was real. “While in Cuba, I overheard something.”

His expression hardened. “And you failed to disclose this information during the debriefing?”

The disappointment in his gray eyes crushed her.

She knew now that concealing this had been the wrong thing to do. “Sir, I wasn’t sure it was important. You have to understand, soldiers try to trick the female pilots all the time. If they can make us look bad, humiliate us, or discourage us, they will at every opportunity.”

“As Second Lieutenant Rosbach had?”

“That was worse.” Her anger flared. “That could have killed WASP Brown.” She glanced at her friend. “As it is, she has been banned from flying because of her injury.”

“When she heals fully, she’ll be in the air again.”

“If they let her, sir.” More than likely they would use this to permanently ground her.

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