And I can't afford--" "Well, but Johnny! Don't they know what a perfectly wonderful flyer you are?
Why, I should think--" "They won't have me in aviation at all, even without the plane," said Johnny.

"The papers came back to-day.

I was turned down--flat on my face! Gol darn 'em, they can do without me now!" "Well, I should say so!" cried Mary V's thin, indignant voice in his ear.

"How perfectly idiotic! I didn't want you to go, anyway.

Now you'll come back to the ranch, won't you, Johnny ?" The voice had turned wheedling.