The search was on.

A hundred men were presently combing the desert land and looking for an airplane that had not flown that way--just because Johnny Jewel was true to his supreme purpose in life.

And just because Johnny's whole heart and soul were set upon repaying a conscience debt to Mary V's father, Mary V herself was innocently saddling his conscience with a still greater debt.

For that is the way Fate loves to set us playing at cross-purposes with each other..