The Thunder Bird

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B. M. Bower. The Thunder Bird

The Thunder Bird

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CHAPTER. I JOHNNY ASSUMES A DEBT OF HONOR II AND THE CAT CAME BACK III JOHNNY WOULD DO STUNTS IV MARY V TO THE RESCUE V GODS OR SOMETHING VI FAME WAITS UPON JOHNNY VII MERELY TWO POINTS OF VIEW VIII SUDDEN MUST DO SOMETHING IX GIVING THE COLT HIS HEAD X LOCHINVAR UP TO DATE XI JOHNNY WILL NOT BE A NICE BOY XII THE THUNDER BIRD TAKES WING XIII THE HEGIRA OF JOHN IVAN JEWEL XIV FATE MEETS JOHNNY SMILING XV ONE MORE PLUNGE FOR JOHNNY XVI WITH HIS HANDS FULL OF MONEY AND HIS EYES SHUT XVII "MY JOB'S FLYING" XVIII INTO MEXICO AND RETURN XIX BUT JOHNNY WAS NEITHER FOOL NOR KNAVE XX MARY V TAKES THE TRAIL XXI JOHNNY IS NOT PAID TO THINK XXII JOHNNY MAKES UP HIS MIND XXIII JOHNNY ACTS BOLDLY XXIV THE THUNDER BIRD'S LAST FLIGHT FOR JOHNNY XXV OVER THE TELEPHONE. CHAPTER ONE

JOHNNY ASSUMES A DEBT OF HONOR

CHAPTER TWO

AND THE CAT CAME BACK

CHAPTER THREE

JOHNNY WOULD DO STUNTS

CHAPTER FOUR

MARY V TO THE RESCUE

CHAPTER FIVE

GODS OR SOMETHING

CHAPTER SIX

FAME WAITS UPON JOHNNY

CHAPTER SEVEN

MERELY TWO POINTS OF VIEW

CHAPTER EIGHT

SUDDEN MUST DO SOMETHING

CHAPTER NINE

GIVING THE COLT HIS HEAD

CHAPTER TEN

LOCHINVAR UP TO DATE

CHAPTER ELEVEN

JOHNNY WILL NOT BE A NICE BOY

BIRDMAN FURNISHES NEW SENSATION!

CHAPTER TWELVE

THE THUNDER BIRD TAKES WING

CHAPTER THIRTEEN

TEE HEGIRA OF JOHN IVAN JEWEL

CHAPTER FOURTEEN

FATE MEETS JOHNNY SMILING

CHAPTER FIFTEEN

ONE MORE PLUNGE FOR JOHNNY

CHAPTER SIXTEEN

WITH HIS HANDS FULL OF MONEY AND HIS EYES SHUT

CHAPTER SEVENTEEN

"MY JOB'S FLYING"

CHAPTER EIGHTEEN

INTO MEXICO AND RETURN

CHAPTER NINETEEN

BUT JOHNNY WAS NEITHER FOOL NOR KNAVE

CHAPTER TWENTY

MARY V TAKES THE TRAIL

CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE

JOHNNY IS NOT PAID TO THINK

CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO

JOHNNY MAKES UP HIS MIND

CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE

JOHNNY ACTS BOLDLY

CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR

THE THUNDER BIRD'S LAST FLIGHT FOR JOHNNY

CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE

OVER THE TELEPHONE

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B. M. Bower

Published by Good Press, 2019

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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. And if he sold his own airplane, how then would he fly? How could he ever hope to be in the game as long as Bland had been? How could he do anything but go back meekly to the Rolling R Ranch and ride bronks for Mary V's father, and be hailed as Skyrider still, who had no more any hope of riding the sky?

Gloom at last plumbed the depths of Johnny's soul, and showed him where grew the root of his unalterable determination to combat Mary V's plan to have him at the ranch. Much as he loved Mary V he would hate going back to the dull routine of ranch life. (And after all, a youth like Johnny loves nothing quite so much as his air castles.) As a rider of bronks he was spoiled, he who had ridden triumphant the high air lanes. He had talked of paying his debt to Sudden, he had talked of his self-respect and his honesty and his pride—but above and beyond them all he was fighting to save his castle in the air. Debt or no debt, he could never go back to the Rolling R and be a rancher. Lying there under his airplane and staring up at the starred purple of the night he knew that he could not go back.

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