Chapter 24
THE THUNDER BIRD'S LAST FLIGHT FOR JOHNNY Over North Island the high, clear notes of the bugle sounding reveille woke Johnny. Immediately afterward a guard appeared to take him in charge, from which Johnny gathered that he was still being "detained." He did not want to be detained, and he did not feel that they had any right to detain him. He flopped over and pulled the blankets over his ears. "Here, you get up. Captain wants you brought before him right after chow, and that's coming along soon as you can get into your pants. You better be steppin'." "Aw, what's he want to see me for?" Johnny growled. It would be much pleasanter to go back to his dream of Mary V. "Why, to shoot you, stupid. Whadda yuh think?" "I'd hate to tell yuh right to your face, but at that I may force myself to
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