The bell boy said, "Thank you, sir," and added breathlessly, "Gee, I wish I was an aviator, Mr.Jewel!" Sir and Mister all in one breath, and to be called an aviator besides had a perceptible effect upon Johnny.

He swaggered across the room that had a moment ago awed him to the point of wanting to walk on his toes.

Of course he was an aviator! Hadn't he been flying in his own plane?
What more did it take, for gosh sake?
A pilot's license was a mere detail, alongside the night he had made that day.

He should say he was an aviator! The 'phone tinkled.

A man from the _Times_ wanted to talk with him, it seemed.