You'll see." The old man took his hand in parting.

"All right; we'll see, Virgil.

Of course we do need you, seriously speaking; but we don't need you so bad we'll let you come down there before you're fully fit and able." He went to the door.

"You hear, Miss Alice?
That's what I wanted to make the old feller understand, and what I want you to kind of enforce on him.

The old place is there waiting for him, and it'd wait ten years if it took him that long to get good and well.