All the more reason then why Johnny should repay his debt.
"What I'm wondering about is why you aren't in Los Angeles," he evaded the unpleasant subject awkwardly.

"Old Sudden gave you money to go, and dumped you at the depot, didn't he?
That's what Mary V told me." "He did--and I missed my train.

And while I was waiting for the next I must 'a' et something poison.

I was awful sick.

I guess it was ten days or so before I come to enough to know where I was.