Johnny dreamed two separate dreams. The first dream was confused and fragmentary. He seemed to hear certain sentences spoken while he was whirling through space with the Milky Way flinging stars at him. As nearly as he could remember afterwards, this is what he heard.
Mary V's voice: "Don't be so stupid! If a girl happens to bring in two perfectly bandittish outlaws that imagine they are kidnaping her, why must she be lectured, pray tell? If a man had done it—"
Mumble, mumble, and a buzzing in Johnny's head.
Bland's voice: "I don't know as I could tell. He could, if he should come to. We got 'em headed this way—"
Bill's voice: "—and I seen him hittin' for the line and headed him off—"
More mumbling.
Mary V's voice: "I can't see why he doesn't hurry! Why, for gracious sake, must a person lie forever out in the sun when he's all smashed—"
Bland's voice: "—not as much as yuh might think, in all this brush. I ain't gone over it yet—" (mumble) "—short circuit—" (mumble, buzz-buzz) "went past me so close I could feel the wind—" (mumble) "—I dunno. I've seen 'em hurt worse and get over it, and I've seen 'em die when you'd think—"
After that it was all mumble and buzz, and then more stars, and blackness and silence.
Piecing together the fragments, as Johnny could not do, here is the interpretation.