“I LOOKED UPON A BROAD, FAIR VALLEY”
Tears of happiness welled to my eyes as I stood feasting my gaze upon the scene and then the hoarse screech of the locomotive again roared out and a train thundered past the base of the hill at my feet.
It was too much for Lobo, and with a terrified howl he turned and sped back to the wild, leaving me standing alone upon the threshold of civilization.
THE END