DREAMS AND DARKNESS Johnny dreamed two separate dreams.

The first dream was confused and fragmentary.

He seemed to hear certain sentences spoken while he was whirling through space with the Milky Way flinging stars at him.

As nearly as he could remember afterwards, this is what he heard.
Mary V's voice: "Don't be so stupid! If a girl happens to bring in two perfectly bandittish outlaws that imagine they are kidnaping her, why must she be lectured, pray tell?
If a man had done it--" Mumble, mumble, and a buzzing in Johnny's head.
Bland's voice: "I don't know as I could tell.

He could, if he should come to.