| En route to the bank, Dan considered skipping town with all that money—lots of cash, and all the checks were made out to him; it wouldn’t get him far but far enough to start fresh—but he didn’t, and he didn’t even feel too guilty about that because it was human to be tempted and felt even more human to overcome temptation. He exchanged the money for a cashier’s check and mailed it to the hospital, and everybody got on with their lives the best they could, the best we can, and for most of them, for a long time after, the simple mundane things like driving to the store and back was a gift, was God’s good grace shining on them.
They all wondered what became of that man. |
