As I was saying--" "Ah--I hear you had quite an adventure, Mr.Jewel, down among the Indians with your airplane.

Now, just where--" "I'm in a hurry," Johnny hedged.

"I don't know anything about any adventure.

We had a little carburetor trouble, and had to wait for gas before we could get back.

That's all." He grabbed Bland firmly by one arm and hustled him outside, where men were seemingly waiting far his appearance.
"Oh, Mr.Jewel! I wish you'd tell me--" "I'm in a hurry! Good golly, folks seem to think talking is all there is to do in this world! Come on, Bland." He hurried on, his mind absorbed in grasping the full significance of Bedelia's excited report of events at the Rolling R and this curious crowd that gaped at him.
The thought of Mary V lying unconscious, stricken by the sound of his voice over the telephone, nagged at him persistently and unpleasantly.
He had not told Bedelia that he was coming, and now he feared that his unheralded appearance might be another shock to Mary V; but he would not take the time to go back and warn her, for all that.