"He's working for his passage--er--" "Er--yes ?" Mary V smiled demurely.

"You may just as well tell me the whole thing, now.

_Have_ you got an aeroplane?
Really truly?
I mean, where did you get it?
I know, of course, you must have one, or you wouldn't buy all that gas." "Some deductionist," grinned Johnny, tickled with the very human interest he had roused in himself and his doings.

"Where I got it is a secret--but I've got it, all right!" "Johnny Jewel! You didn't let that Bland Halliday sell you--" "I picked Bland Halliday up at the station in Agua Dulce," Johnny explained tolerantly.

"He'd wrecked his plane back East somewhere.