He's all right, probably--but we'll find out.

I've a right to know what he did with that flying machine; it's security for that note of his!" Mary V sprang to her feet and faced him.

"Dad Selmer, I would never have believed a person on oath if they had said you could be so perfectly mean and mercenary! If that's all you care about, why take the Bear Cat and give me that note! Go on--take it! I guess Johnny has a right to do as he pleases until the note is due, at any rate.
You might at least treat Johnny with ordinary business courtesy, I should think.

You know perfectly well that you wouldn't dare hound your other creditors like that.

But if you are really worried about that note, I shall deem it a pleasure and a privilege to pay it myself, and I'm sure the Bear Cat is good for the amount, or if you prefer you may hold back my allowance, and I shall go without clothes and everything until it is paid.