Chapter Twenty
Chattering and giggles from the hallway filtered into Evelyn’s room through the closed door. She’d finally received her orders and been stunned to discover she was headed to officer training school. Why the army had invested in hours of pursuit-plane training in her then decided not to use her right away was a mystery. Torn between the honor of being selected and disappointment at not being given a piloting assignment, she sighed. Did Jasper have anything to do with the military’s decision?
On the cot, her suitcase lay open and half-filled. She needed to finish packing so she could get on the road. Well, in the air actually. The CO has approved her ferrying one of the P-51s to the base in Orlando where she’d be stationed. She opened the wardrobe, pulled clothes off the han
