He turned away and stared across the barren calf lot that Johnny used for a flying field.
Johnny began to have premonitory qualms of a sympathy which he knew was undeserved.

Bland Halliday had got a square deal--more than a square deal; for Sudden, Johnny knew, had paid him generously for repairing the plane while Johnny was sick.

Bland had undoubtedly squandered the money in one long debauch, and there was no doubt in Johnny's mind of Bland's reason for missing his train.

He was a bum by nature and he would double-cross his own mother, Johnny firmly believed.

Yet, there was Johnny's boyish sympathy that never failed sundry stray dogs and cats that came in his way.