Handed him over close to five hundred dollars when he come out--piloted him here, took him into town, and was planning on helping him to make more money, and what does he do?
Ducks into the Alexandria, leavin' me waitin' outside, hungry and thirsty and tired as a dog.

Him with five hundred, me with seventy-five! And _he_ wouldn't a knowed any different if I'd trimmed him! Who was to keep tabs on how many passengers I took up?
And what does he do?
Gives me the slip right there in the Alexandria, that's what he done.

I ain't been able to locate him yet, but if ever I do--" Mary V swung the Bear Cat out and passed a limousine as though it were standing still--which it emphatically was not.

What if Bland were telling the truth?
What if Johnny had actually dropped out of sight with five hundred dollars in his possession?
That would mean--she refused to consider just what it would mean.

She would wait until her dad had gotten the truth out of Bland Halliday.