"I've told him and told him that you don't care and would never hold it against him, but he won't listen.

He keeps on talking about paying it back, and making good before we can be married and all that.

And he simply will not consent to come and make good on the ranch, and pay you out of his salary, if he feels he must pay.
"He says ranching is too tame for him--dad, think of that! Too tame, when he knows very well it would mean-- But he doesn't seem to care whether we're together or not.

He says he can make a fortune flying, and he said he might go in partnership with Bland Halliday.

He says we can't think of being married until he has paid you--and he imagines he can earn the money with that airplane! And I know perfectly well he can't, because if he does make a cent Bland Halliday will cheat him out of it.