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I ABOARD THE ELECTRA 1
II VICKI MEETS THE BRYANTS 10
V THE GIRL IN THE PORTRAIT 50
VI VICKI SEARCHES 63
X THE SIGNAL 134
"That's why," Vicki explained to her family, "the Electra is so challenging. Mary Carter warned us stewardesses, while she was retraining us for the Electra, that this beauty flies so fast there's hardly time to get all our jobs done."
"You mean it's a hard assignment, don't you?" said Ginny. She was fourteen, and Vicki's younger sister.
Their mother, Betty Barr, said, "I'm sure if I had your job on a jet-prop--Or is it a jet? Which is it, Lewis?"
He smiled at Vicki who looked so much like him--fair hair, light-blue eyes, the thoughtful Barr gaze--that it was a family joke.
"Fortunately I'm not going to have to do everything all by myself," Vicki answered. "Jean Cox and I will work the New York-Chicago-San Francisco run together on the Electra."
Vicki popped in and out of The Castle between assignments, whenever she could. That wasn't often. Perhaps now that Federal Airlines was transferring her to the Electra and one of its transcontinental runs, she might be lucky enough to see her family more often.
Her mother was wondering about the same thing. "Will your being based in San Francisco mean that we won't see much of you?"
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