Or, Lite was somewhere below; she would call for Lite, and he could go and get an officer and a warrant.
"How soon you going back ?" Art asked abruptly, as though he had been pondering a problem and had reached the solution.

"I'll have to get a leave of absence, or go down on the books as a deserter; and I wouldn't want that.

I can get it, all right.

I'll go back with you and straighten this thing out, if it's the way you say it is.

I sure didn't know they'd pulled your dad for it, Jean." This, coming so close upon the heels of her own decision, set Jean all at sea again.