But Worth delayed reluctantly at the edge of the shadows, looking with impatience across his shoulder, eager to be on—to get to Barbara. Yet I wanted that suitcase to go into the house in his hand; wanted him to be able to tell his girl that she'd made him a winner in the gamble and the long chase. Roughly assured that only a few thousands had been used by Vandeman, I stuck the handles into his fist and trailed along after his quick strides. Edwards followed me. Laura Bowman opened the door to us; she stopped Edwards on the porch.
And then I saw my children meet. I hadn't meant to; but after all, what matter? They didn't know I was on earth. Creation had resolved itself, for them, into the one man, the one woman.
The suitcase thumped unregarded on the floor. She came to him with her hands out. He took them slowly, raised them to his shoulders, and her arms went round his neck.
THE END
Transcriber's Notes
Page 26, word "sowly" changed to "slowly" (Slowly he brought that)
Page 26, duplicate "the" deleted (followed it with the other)
Page 134, word "inconspicious" changed to "inconspicuous" (inconspicuous eye on Edwards)
Page 156, word "expaining" changed to "explaining" (explaining how I'd have run)
Page 172, word "Warf" changed to "Wharf" (land me at Fisherman's Wharf)
Page 315, word "Los Angles" changed to "Los Angeles" (I bought in Los Angeles)
Page 315, word "nonenity" changed to "nonentity" (to deduce that a nonentity)