She did not look about her. With unsteady hands she pulled her veil
down; then she said faintly, "Good-by--" She hardly returned the
friendly pressure of Dr. Lavendar's hand. She was so blinded by tears
that she had stumbled into the stage before she saw the child,
buttoned up to his ears in his first greatcoat, and bubbling over with
excitement. Even when she did see him, she did not at first
understand. She looked at him, and then at Dr. Lavendar, and then back
at David, to whom it was all a delightful game which, the night
before, Dr. Lavendar and he had got up between them. It served its
purpose, for the child had no suspicion of anything unusual in the
occasion.
"I'm the package!" said David joyously.
The stage went sagging and rumbling down the road. For a long minute
Dr. Lavendar stood in the rain, looking after it. Then it turned the
corner and was out of sight. He drew a long breath. David had gone!
A minute later he and Danny went back to the empty house.