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Bertha Muzzy Sinclair. The Thunder Bird
The Thunder Bird
Table of Contents
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
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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Bertha Muzzy Sinclair
Published by Good Press, 2021
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Johnny laughed impatiently. “Let your dad jump up my wages to a point where he can pay himself back, you mean,” he retorted. “Oh—h, no, Mary V. You can’t kid me out of this, so why keep on arguing? You don’t seem to take me seriously. You seem to think this is just a whim of mine. Why, good golly! I should think it would be plain enough to you that I’ve got to do it if I want to hold up my head and look men in the face. It’s—why, it’s an insult to my self-respect and my honesty to even hint that I could do anything but what I’m going to do. The very fact that your dad ain’t going to force the debt makes it all the more necessary that I should pay it.
“Why, good golly, Mary V! I’d feel better toward your father if he had me arrested for being an accomplice with those horse thieves, or slapped an attachment on the plane or something, than wave the whole thing off the way he’s doing. It’d show he looked on me as a man, anyway.
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