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Just a circle or two, to show yuh how this ranch looks to a chicken hawk, and down again," Bland persisted, in spite of Johnny. "Yeah it's that down again I wouldn't much hanker for," Aleck put in. "I seen how you and Skyrider come down, once."
That came when he had been put to bed at the Rolling R ranch house, in a guest room that faced north. A doctor was there, waiting for them when they arrived, because Sudden had telephoned him when he had finished calling for the sheriff. The boys had told him soberly that Skyrider was bad off, and that his whole head was smashed, and that the flyin' machine was busted all to pieces.
Quit cussin' and listen, Johnny; yo' all never heard this 'un, and I'll gamble on it: "'Through the clouds we'll float in my airplane boat That, there's by Skyrider. And here Mary V finishes it up: "'For Venus I am truly sorry! All the stars you sight, you witless wight, You'll see when you and Venus light! But then I'm sure that I should worry!" "I don't believe she ever wrote that!"
"What's the matter with that, Skyrider? Kain't I make up po'try if I want to?" "Sure. Help yourself you poor fish. Vollup! Hunh!" The contempt was even more pronounced than before. "Well? What's the matter with that? You said it yourself. And look out how you go peddlin' names around here. You think nobody knows anything but you!
Johnny had asked himself the same question; indeed, it had drummed insistently in his brain since he had inspected the fence that afternoon and had known just what had befallen him. The bell rang Sudden was calling again. He got up stolidly to answer more questions. "Oh Skyrider! I can only talk a minute. Mom's in the kitchen, and dad's gone to hunt up Bill Hayden.
He would come back to her a captain, maybe perhaps even a major, in these hot times of swift achievement. They would all be proud to shake his hand, those jeering ones who called him Skyrider for a joke. Captain Jewel would not have sounded bad at all. But There is no dodging the finality of Uncle Sam's no. They had not wanted Johnny Jewel to fly for fame and his country's honor.
"My good gracious, I thought you boys had started a sawmill or maybe somebody had overslept down here and was snoring. It sounded like Aleck." They laughed, and Curley spoke. "That there was Skyrider. He has flew " Bud, fumbling for a match, had a fit of genius. He grinned, cleared his throat, and began to warble unexpectedly.
Mary V needed time enough to study that statement also. She mounted Tango and waited until Johnny was ready to start with his queer load. "How did you get it if I may ask?" she began then. "Did Bland Halliday happen along and have a wreck, and sell you the pieces? You want to be careful, because I know he's an awful grafter, and he'll cheat you, just as sure as you live, Skyrider."
Any exhibition work, you give me half, because it'll really be me that's pulling off the stunts. The public needn't be wise to that. You as Skyrider Johnny, see. I'm just anybody, for the present." "Why all this modesty to-day? When you first wanted to go in with me, I couldn't call you no violet, Bland. You said then that your name was worth a lot." Bland's loose lips parted in a crafty grin.
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