It sounds unfinished, as you told it.

I don't know that I can do anything with it, after all." I was truthful with him; you all remember that I was dissatisfied with the way Casey ended it.

Just walking back across the desert and quitting the search,--it lacked, somehow, the dramatic climax.

I could have built one, of course.

But I wanted to test out my theory that a man like Casey will live a complete drama if he is left alone.