I am lucky in one sense--I shan't have to pay the thousand-dollar reward the kid so generously offered in my name for your recovery.

The bonus she offered that sheriff's posse will mighty near eat up that new automobile she's been wanting, though.
Maybe next time--" "I'll buy Mary V an automobile if she wants one--when I get the note paid," Johnny stated boyishly, to show his disapproval of Sudden's hardness.
Sudden once more passed his palm thoughtfully over the lower half of his face.

"Mary V ought to appreciate that," he said dryly, and Johnny flushed.
"Anyway, it ain't right to make her suffer for being worried about me.
That was my fault, in a way.

If you'll tell me how much you're out-- ?" "That's all right.

It's on me, for falling so easy for one of Mary V's spasms.