Off there to the left was the Rolling R Ranch--and Mary V.

He wondered dully if it would hurt her, this abrupt ending of their dreams.

Or had she ever really cared?
Bland, sitting in front with his guilty secret, felt the swing Johnny was unconsciously giving to the plane, and set his control against it.
The Thunder Bird veered, hesitated, and came back to the course.
Johnny took a long breath and turned his eyes to the front again.

The past was past--the future lay all before him.

He set his teeth together and drove the Thunder Bird straight into the west..