
“She’s coming back.”
Sam looked up from his morning paper. He didn’t have to ask who Moe was talking about; that was clear from his voice eager and wistful and a little unsure.
“How do you know?”
“The colonel told me. She requested to be reassigned to Station X and they’ve approved the transfer. She’ll be back at her post tomorrow.”
But Moe didn’t have to wait an impatient 24 hours before he saw Rob Morgenstern again. With the news of Johnny Miller’s tragic death Rob had vanished from Bletchley not even coming to retrieve her personal effects from the staff locker room. It suddenly occurred to her friends and colleagues — Moe among them — that Rob had never discussed her immediate family and no one had a telephone number or address or any way of contacting her.
But now with a firm knock on the Brauns’ door she was here standing before them.