[THREE] As the staff car carrying Generals Almond and Howe started down the road beside the runway, McCoy paused long enough to wonder where they were going, then turned and motioned to Jeanette Priestly to get out of the Russian jeep. He had given a lot of thought to Jeanette and to her relationship with Pickering. Pick Pickering--a really legendary swordsman, of whom it was more or less honestly said he had two girls and often more in every port--had taken one look at Jeanette Priestly just over two months before and fallen in love with her.