rew as they dispersed toward the vehicles. None of them seemed the

1. least bit upset by Johnny's
   childish   
   
   
2. outburst. At the vehicles Ethan Stone joined Kerney. "
3. Not to worry," he said gaily as he slid into the front passenger se
4. at and waved a hand in the air. "These little catfights break ou
   t all the time." "That's good to know," Kerney
5. said as he crammed himself into the backseat next to Julia, who'd kept up her tiresome coquettish behav
6. ior all afternoon. He'd decided she did it solely to entertain hersel

f. On the drive down the mountain a dust devil churned across the valley, lifting sand s

everal hundred feet into the sky as it turned on its thin axis. Kerney tuned Ju