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+                               THE chasm
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+                            BY BRYCE WALTON
+
+                  _It was a war of survival. Children
+                   against old men. And not a chance
+                      in the world to bridge_----
+
+           [Transcriber's Note: This etext was produced from
+             Worlds of If Science Fiction, December 1956.
+         Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that
+         the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.]
+
+
+The old man's face was turning gray with fatigue under the wrinkled
+brown. He was beginning to get that deadly catching pain in his left
+chest. But he forced himself to move again, his ragged dusty uniform
+of the old Home Guard blending into the rubble the way a lizard merges
+with sand.
+
+He hobbled behind a pile of masonry and peered through the crack.
+He angled his bald head, listening. His hands never really stopped
+quivering these days and the automatic rifle barrel made a fluttering
+crackle on the concrete. He lowered the barrel, then wiped his face
+with a bandanna.
+
+He'd thought he heard a creeping rustle over there. But he didn't see
+any sign of the Children.
+
+He'd been picked to reconnoiter because his eyes were only
+comparatively good. The truth was he couldn't see too well, especially
+when the sun reflecting on the flat naked angles of the ruined town
+made his eyes smart and water and now his head was beginning to throb.
+
+A dust devil danced away whirling a funnel of dust. Sal Lemmon looked
+at it, and then he slid from behind the rubble and moved along down
+the shattered block, keeping to the wall of jagged holes and broken
+walls that had once been the Main Street of a town.
+
+He remembered with a wry expression on his face that he had passed his
+ninety-fourth birthday eight days back. He had never thought he could
+be concerned with whether he lived to see his ninety-fifth, because
+there had always been the feeling that by the time he was ninety-four
+he would have made his peace with himself and with whatever was outside.
+
+He moved warily, like a dusty rabbit, in and out of the ruins,
+shrinking through the sun's dead noon glare.
+
+He stopped, and crouched in the shade behind a pile of slag that had
+once been the iron statue of some important historical figure. He
+contacted Captain Murphy on the walkie-talkie.
+
+"Don't see any signs of Children."
+
+"Max said he saw some around there," Murphy yelled.
+
+"Max's getting too old. Guess he's seeing things."
+
+"He saw them right around there somewhere."
+
+"Haven't seen him either."
+
+"We haven't heard another word from Max here, Sal."
+
+The old man shrugged. "How could the Children have gotten through our
+post defenses?" He looked away down the white glare of the street.
+
+"You're supposed to be finding out," Murphy yelled. He had a good voice
+for a man two months short of being a hundred. He liked to show it off.
+
+Then Sal thought he saw an odd fluttery movement down the block.
+
+"I'll report in a few minutes," he said, and then he edged along next
+to the angled wall. A disturbed stream of plaster whispered down and
+ran off his shoulder.
+
+Near the corner, he stopped. "Max," he said. He whispered it several
+times. "Max ... that you, Max?"
+
+He moved nearer to the blob on the concrete. Heat waves radiated
+up around it and it seemed to quiver and dance. He dropped the
+walkie-talkie. There wasn't even enough left of Max to take back in or
+put under the ground.
+
+He heard the metallic clank and the manhole cover moved and then he
+saw them coming up over the edge. He ran and behind him he could hear
+their screams and cries and their feet striking hard over the blisters,
+cracks, and dried out holes in the dead town's skin.
+
+He dodged into rubble and fell and got up and kept on running. The
+pain was like something squeezing in his belly, and he kept on running
+because he wanted to live and because he had to tell the others that
+the Children were indeed inside the post defenses.
+
+He knew now how they had come in. Through the sewers, under the
+defenses. He began to feel and hear them crawling, digging, moving
+all over beneath the ruins, waiting to come out in a filthy screaming
+stream.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+Sal was still resting in the corner of the old warehouse by the river.
+A lantern hung on a beam and the dank floor was covered with deep
+moving shadows.
+
+Captain Murphy was pacing in a circle, looking like something sewn
+quickly together by a nervous seamstress. Doctor Cartley sat on a
+canvas chair, elbows on knees, chin in his hands. He kept looking at
+the floor. He was in his early eighties and sometimes seemed like a
+young man to Sal. His ideas maybe. He thought differently about the
+Children and where things were going.
+
+"We're going to get out tonight," Captain Murphy said again. "We'll get
+that barge loaded and we'll get out."
+
+Sal sat up. The pills had made his heart settle down a bit, and his
+hands were comparatively calm.
+
+"Is the barge almost loaded now? It better be," Sal said. "They'll
+attack any minute now. I know that much."
+
+"Another hour's all we need. If they attack before then we can hold
+them off long enough to get that barge into the river. Once we get into
+the river with it, we'll be safe. We can float her down and into the
+sea. Somewhere along the coast we'll land and wherever it is will be
+fine for us. We'll have licked the Children. They know we've found the
+only eatable food stores in God knows how many thousands of miles in
+this goddamned wasteland. They can't live another month without this
+stuff, and we're taking it all down the river. That's right isn't it,
+Doc?"
+
+Cartley looked up. "But as I said before, squeezing a little more life
+out of ourselves doesn't mean anything to me. What do we want to get
+away and live a little longer for? It doesn't make sense, except in a
+ridiculous selfish way. So we live another month, maybe six months, or
+a year longer? What for?"
+
+Sal glanced at Murphy who finally sat down.
+
+"We want to live," Murphy said thickly, and he gripped his hands
+together. "Survival. It's a natural law."
+
+"What about the survival of the species?" Cartley asked. "By running
+out and taking the food, we're killing ourselves anyway. So I don't
+think I'll be with you, Murphy."
+
+"What are you going to do? Stay here? They'll torture you to death.
+They'll do to you what they did to Donaldson, and all the others
+they've caught. You want to stay for that kind of treatment?"
+
+"We ought to try. Running off, taking all this food, that means they're
+sure to die inside a few weeks. They might catch a few rats or birds,
+but there aren't even enough of those around to sustain life beyond
+a few days. So we kill the future just so we can go on living for a
+little longer. We've got no reason to live when we know the race will
+die. My wife refused to fight them. They killed her, that's true,
+but I still think she was right. We've got to make one more attempt
+to establish some kind of truce with the Children. If we had that,
+then we might be able to start building up some kind of relationship.
+The only way they can survive, even if they had food, is to absorb
+our knowledge. You know that. Without our knowledge and experience,
+they'll die anyway, even if they had a thousand years of food supplies."
+
+"It can't be done," Murphy said.
+
+Cartley looked at the shadows for a long time. Finally he shook his
+head. "I don't have any idea how to do it. But we should try. We can't
+use discipline and power because we're too weak. And too outnumbered.
+We'd have to do that first in order to teach them, and we can't. So
+there has to be some other way."
+
+"Faith?" Sal said. He shook his head. "They don't believe in anything.
+You can't make any appeal to them through faith, or ethics, any kind of
+code of honor, nothing like that. They're worse than animals."
+
+Cartley stood up wearily and started to walk away. "They hate us," he
+said. "That's the one thing we're sure of. We're the means and they're
+the ends. We made them what they are. They're brutalized and motivated
+almost completely by hatred. And what's underneath hatred?" He fumed
+back toward Murphy. "Fear."
+
+Sal stood up. "I never thought of them as being afraid," he said.
+
+"That doesn't matter," Murphy said. "It's the hate and vicious
+brutality we have to deal with. You do whatever you want to do,
+Cartley. We've voted, and we've voted to move the stuff out tonight on
+the barge. The world we helped make is dead, Cartley. The Children grew
+up in a world we killed. We've all got bad consciences, but we can't do
+anything about it. The chasm between them and us is too wide. It was
+wide even before the bombs fell. And the bombs made it a hell of a lot
+wider. Too wide to put any kind of bridge across now."
+
+"Just the same, we ought to die trying," Cartley said. When he went
+outside, Sal followed him.
+
+The barge was about loaded. All outer defense units had been pulled in
+and were concentrated on the head of the pier behind walls of sandbags.
+Burp guns and machine guns were ready, and the barge lay along the side
+of the pier in the moonlight like a dead whale. There were several
+sewer openings near the head of the pier. Men were stationed around
+these sewers with automatic rifles, hand grenades and flame throwers.
+
+Sal walked to where Cartley stood leaning against the partly closed
+door of the rotting warehouse. Jagged splinters of steel and wood
+angled out against the sky.
+
+After a while, Sal said softly, "Well, what could we try to do, Doc?"
+
+Cartley turned quickly. Some of the anguish in his eyes had gone away,
+and he gripped Sal's shoulders in hands surprisingly strong for so old
+a man. "You want to help me try?"
+
+"Guess I do. Like you said, we only have a little time left anyway. And
+if we can't help the Children, what's the good of it?"
+
+They stood there in the shadows a while, not saying anything.
+
+"This way," Cartley said. He led Sal down away from the pier and along
+the water's edge. Dry reed rustled, and mud squished under their shoes.
+
+"Here," Cartley said. There was a small flat-bottomed rowboat, and in
+it were several cartons of food supplies, all in cans. There were also
+several large tins of water.
+
+"We'll need a little time," Cartley said. "We'll have to wait. I figure
+we'll row upstream maybe a few hundred yards, and hole up in one of
+those caves. We can watch, Sal. We can watch and wait and try to figure
+it out."
+
+"Sure," Sal said. "That seems the only way to start."
+
+Cartley sat down on the bank near the boat, and Sal sat down too.
+
+"The Children," Cartley said, "never had a chance to be any other way.
+But we're the oldsters, and we've got this obligation, Sal. Man's a
+cultural animal. He isn't born with any inherent concepts of right,
+or wrong, or good or bad, or even an ability to survive on an animal
+level. We have to be taught to survive by the elders, Sal. And we're
+the elders." He hesitated, "We're the only ones left."
+
+A flare of horrid light exploded over the warehouse down river and it
+lit up Cartley's face and turned it a shimmering crimson. His hands
+widened to perfect roundness and he raised his hands in a voiceless
+scream to stop the sudden explosions of burp guns, grenades, machine
+guns, and rifles.
+
+Looking down river then, Sal could see the flames eating up through the
+warehouse. The pier, the barge, everything for a hundred square yards
+was lit up as bright as day, and the flare spread out over the river
+and made a black ominous shadow of the opposite bank.
+
+"They're getting away," Cartley said.
+
+Sal watched the barge move out. The Children came screaming out of the
+blazing warehouse, overran the pier, streamed into the water. But a
+steady blast of fire from the barge drove them back, and in a few more
+minutes the barge dissolved downriver into darkness.
+
+Cartley's hands were shaking as he gripped Sal's arm. "Let's go now. We
+need time. Time may help us a lot, Sal. We can wait and watch. We can
+figure something out."
+
+Sal heard the screams and mocking savage cries coming up over the
+water, and then the jagged cries of some oldsters who hadn't managed to
+get away.
+
+Still looking downstream toward the blazing pier, Sal pushed Cartley
+into the rowboat, and they shoved off. Sal started rowing, but he kept
+looking back.
+
+"They should have put them in the same shelters with us," Sal said,
+"that would have made a difference. But they put us in separate
+shelters."
+
+Only the oldest and the youngest had been saved. The old out of
+pity and because they were helpless, had been granted the safety of
+shelters. The young because they were the symbols of hope had been
+granted shelters, too.
+
+"No," Cartley said. "It started long before that. The chasm was
+building up long before the war. This alienation between the young and
+the old. Between the sun and the seed. That's what we've got to bring
+back, Sal. Between us, we have stored up a hundred and seventy-nine
+years of human culture. There isn't a kid back there, Sal, more than
+twelve years old."
+
+"We'll find a way," Sal said.
+
+The rowboat was about fifteen feet away from the thick reeds growing in
+the marshy ooze of the bank.
+
+Cartley heard the sound first and turned, his face white. When Sal
+looked toward the bank, he saw the girl. She came on out from the
+curtain of reeds and looked at them. She was perfectly clear in the
+moonlight standing there. She wore a short ragged print dress and she
+had long hair that seemed silken and soft and golden in the moonlight
+even though it, her dress, her little legs and her face were streaked
+with mud.
+
+Sal hesitated, then pulled heavily on his left oar and the boat nosed
+toward her. Up close, Sal could see her face, the clear blue eyes wet,
+and the tears running down her cheeks.
+
+The girl reached out and asked in a sobbing breath,
+
+"Granpa? Is that you, Granpa?"
+
+"Oh God, Oh God," Cartley said. He was crying as he picked her up and
+got her into the boat. He was rocking her in his arms and half crying
+and half laughing as Sal rowed the boat upstream.
+
+"Yes, yes, honey," Sal heard Cartley say over and over. "I'm your
+granpa, honey. Don't cry. Go to sleep now. I'm your granpa and I've
+been looking for you, honey, and now everything's going to be all
+right."
+
+It's funny, Sal thought, as he kept on rowing upstream. It's a funny
+thing how one little girl remembered her granpa, and how maybe that was
+the beginning of the bridge across the chasm.
+
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-                               THE chasm
-
-                            BY BRYCE WALTON
-
-                  _It was a war of survival. Children
-                   against old men. And not a chance
-                      in the world to bridge_----
-
-           [Transcriber's Note: This etext was produced from
-             Worlds of If Science Fiction, December 1956.
-         Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that
-         the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.]
-
-
-The old man's face was turning gray with fatigue under the wrinkled
-brown. He was beginning to get that deadly catching pain in his left
-chest. But he forced himself to move again, his ragged dusty uniform
-of the old Home Guard blending into the rubble the way a lizard merges
-with sand.
-
-He hobbled behind a pile of masonry and peered through the crack.
-He angled his bald head, listening. His hands never really stopped
-quivering these days and the automatic rifle barrel made a fluttering
-crackle on the concrete. He lowered the barrel, then wiped his face
-with a bandanna.
-
-He'd thought he heard a creeping rustle over there. But he didn't see
-any sign of the Children.
-
-He'd been picked to reconnoiter because his eyes were only
-comparatively good. The truth was he couldn't see too well, especially
-when the sun reflecting on the flat naked angles of the ruined town
-made his eyes smart and water and now his head was beginning to throb.
-
-A dust devil danced away whirling a funnel of dust. Sal Lemmon looked
-at it, and then he slid from behind the rubble and moved along down
-the shattered block, keeping to the wall of jagged holes and broken
-walls that had once been the Main Street of a town.
-
-He remembered with a wry expression on his face that he had passed his
-ninety-fourth birthday eight days back. He had never thought he could
-be concerned with whether he lived to see his ninety-fifth, because
-there had always been the feeling that by the time he was ninety-four
-he would have made his peace with himself and with whatever was outside.
-
-He moved warily, like a dusty rabbit, in and out of the ruins,
-shrinking through the sun's dead noon glare.
-
-He stopped, and crouched in the shade behind a pile of slag that had
-once been the iron statue of some important historical figure. He
-contacted Captain Murphy on the walkie-talkie.
-
-"Don't see any signs of Children."
-
-"Max said he saw some around there," Murphy yelled.
-
-"Max's getting too old. Guess he's seeing things."
-
-"He saw them right around there somewhere."
-
-"Haven't seen him either."
-
-"We haven't heard another word from Max here, Sal."
-
-The old man shrugged. "How could the Children have gotten through our
-post defenses?" He looked away down the white glare of the street.
-
-"You're supposed to be finding out," Murphy yelled. He had a good voice
-for a man two months short of being a hundred. He liked to show it off.
-
-Then Sal thought he saw an odd fluttery movement down the block.
-
-"I'll report in a few minutes," he said, and then he edged along next
-to the angled wall. A disturbed stream of plaster whispered down and
-ran off his shoulder.
-
-Near the corner, he stopped. "Max," he said. He whispered it several
-times. "Max ... that you, Max?"
-
-He moved nearer to the blob on the concrete. Heat waves radiated
-up around it and it seemed to quiver and dance. He dropped the
-walkie-talkie. There wasn't even enough left of Max to take back in or
-put under the ground.
-
-He heard the metallic clank and the manhole cover moved and then he
-saw them coming up over the edge. He ran and behind him he could hear
-their screams and cries and their feet striking hard over the blisters,
-cracks, and dried out holes in the dead town's skin.
-
-He dodged into rubble and fell and got up and kept on running. The
-pain was like something squeezing in his belly, and he kept on running
-because he wanted to live and because he had to tell the others that
-the Children were indeed inside the post defenses.
-
-He knew now how they had come in. Through the sewers, under the
-defenses. He began to feel and hear them crawling, digging, moving
-all over beneath the ruins, waiting to come out in a filthy screaming
-stream.
-
-       *       *       *       *       *
-
-Sal was still resting in the corner of the old warehouse by the river.
-A lantern hung on a beam and the dank floor was covered with deep
-moving shadows.
-
-Captain Murphy was pacing in a circle, looking like something sewn
-quickly together by a nervous seamstress. Doctor Cartley sat on a
-canvas chair, elbows on knees, chin in his hands. He kept looking at
-the floor. He was in his early eighties and sometimes seemed like a
-young man to Sal. His ideas maybe. He thought differently about the
-Children and where things were going.
-
-"We're going to get out tonight," Captain Murphy said again. "We'll get
-that barge loaded and we'll get out."
-
-Sal sat up. The pills had made his heart settle down a bit, and his
-hands were comparatively calm.
-
-"Is the barge almost loaded now? It better be," Sal said. "They'll
-attack any minute now. I know that much."
-
-"Another hour's all we need. If they attack before then we can hold
-them off long enough to get that barge into the river. Once we get into
-the river with it, we'll be safe. We can float her down and into the
-sea. Somewhere along the coast we'll land and wherever it is will be
-fine for us. We'll have licked the Children. They know we've found the
-only eatable food stores in God knows how many thousands of miles in
-this goddamned wasteland. They can't live another month without this
-stuff, and we're taking it all down the river. That's right isn't it,
-Doc?"
-
-Cartley looked up. "But as I said before, squeezing a little more life
-out of ourselves doesn't mean anything to me. What do we want to get
-away and live a little longer for? It doesn't make sense, except in a
-ridiculous selfish way. So we live another month, maybe six months, or
-a year longer? What for?"
-
-Sal glanced at Murphy who finally sat down.
-
-"We want to live," Murphy said thickly, and he gripped his hands
-together. "Survival. It's a natural law."
-
-"What about the survival of the species?" Cartley asked. "By running
-out and taking the food, we're killing ourselves anyway. So I don't
-think I'll be with you, Murphy."
-
-"What are you going to do? Stay here? They'll torture you to death.
-They'll do to you what they did to Donaldson, and all the others
-they've caught. You want to stay for that kind of treatment?"
-
-"We ought to try. Running off, taking all this food, that means they're
-sure to die inside a few weeks. They might catch a few rats or birds,
-but there aren't even enough of those around to sustain life beyond
-a few days. So we kill the future just so we can go on living for a
-little longer. We've got no reason to live when we know the race will
-die. My wife refused to fight them. They killed her, that's true,
-but I still think she was right. We've got to make one more attempt
-to establish some kind of truce with the Children. If we had that,
-then we might be able to start building up some kind of relationship.
-The only way they can survive, even if they had food, is to absorb
-our knowledge. You know that. Without our knowledge and experience,
-they'll die anyway, even if they had a thousand years of food supplies."
-
-"It can't be done," Murphy said.
-
-Cartley looked at the shadows for a long time. Finally he shook his
-head. "I don't have any idea how to do it. But we should try. We can't
-use discipline and power because we're too weak. And too outnumbered.
-We'd have to do that first in order to teach them, and we can't. So
-there has to be some other way."
-
-"Faith?" Sal said. He shook his head. "They don't believe in anything.
-You can't make any appeal to them through faith, or ethics, any kind of
-code of honor, nothing like that. They're worse than animals."
-
-Cartley stood up wearily and started to walk away. "They hate us," he
-said. "That's the one thing we're sure of. We're the means and they're
-the ends. We made them what they are. They're brutalized and motivated
-almost completely by hatred. And what's underneath hatred?" He fumed
-back toward Murphy. "Fear."
-
-Sal stood up. "I never thought of them as being afraid," he said.
-
-"That doesn't matter," Murphy said. "It's the hate and vicious
-brutality we have to deal with. You do whatever you want to do,
-Cartley. We've voted, and we've voted to move the stuff out tonight on
-the barge. The world we helped make is dead, Cartley. The Children grew
-up in a world we killed. We've all got bad consciences, but we can't do
-anything about it. The chasm between them and us is too wide. It was
-wide even before the bombs fell. And the bombs made it a hell of a lot
-wider. Too wide to put any kind of bridge across now."
-
-"Just the same, we ought to die trying," Cartley said. When he went
-outside, Sal followed him.
-
-The barge was about loaded. All outer defense units had been pulled in
-and were concentrated on the head of the pier behind walls of sandbags.
-Burp guns and machine guns were ready, and the barge lay along the side
-of the pier in the moonlight like a dead whale. There were several
-sewer openings near the head of the pier. Men were stationed around
-these sewers with automatic rifles, hand grenades and flame throwers.
-
-Sal walked to where Cartley stood leaning against the partly closed
-door of the rotting warehouse. Jagged splinters of steel and wood
-angled out against the sky.
-
-After a while, Sal said softly, "Well, what could we try to do, Doc?"
-
-Cartley turned quickly. Some of the anguish in his eyes had gone away,
-and he gripped Sal's shoulders in hands surprisingly strong for so old
-a man. "You want to help me try?"
-
-"Guess I do. Like you said, we only have a little time left anyway. And
-if we can't help the Children, what's the good of it?"
-
-They stood there in the shadows a while, not saying anything.
-
-"This way," Cartley said. He led Sal down away from the pier and along
-the water's edge. Dry reed rustled, and mud squished under their shoes.
-
-"Here," Cartley said. There was a small flat-bottomed rowboat, and in
-it were several cartons of food supplies, all in cans. There were also
-several large tins of water.
-
-"We'll need a little time," Cartley said. "We'll have to wait. I figure
-we'll row upstream maybe a few hundred yards, and hole up in one of
-those caves. We can watch, Sal. We can watch and wait and try to figure
-it out."
-
-"Sure," Sal said. "That seems the only way to start."
-
-Cartley sat down on the bank near the boat, and Sal sat down too.
-
-"The Children," Cartley said, "never had a chance to be any other way.
-But we're the oldsters, and we've got this obligation, Sal. Man's a
-cultural animal. He isn't born with any inherent concepts of right,
-or wrong, or good or bad, or even an ability to survive on an animal
-level. We have to be taught to survive by the elders, Sal. And we're
-the elders." He hesitated, "We're the only ones left."
-
-A flare of horrid light exploded over the warehouse down river and it
-lit up Cartley's face and turned it a shimmering crimson. His hands
-widened to perfect roundness and he raised his hands in a voiceless
-scream to stop the sudden explosions of burp guns, grenades, machine
-guns, and rifles.
-
-Looking down river then, Sal could see the flames eating up through the
-warehouse. The pier, the barge, everything for a hundred square yards
-was lit up as bright as day, and the flare spread out over the river
-and made a black ominous shadow of the opposite bank.
-
-"They're getting away," Cartley said.
-
-Sal watched the barge move out. The Children came screaming out of the
-blazing warehouse, overran the pier, streamed into the water. But a
-steady blast of fire from the barge drove them back, and in a few more
-minutes the barge dissolved downriver into darkness.
-
-Cartley's hands were shaking as he gripped Sal's arm. "Let's go now. We
-need time. Time may help us a lot, Sal. We can wait and watch. We can
-figure something out."
-
-Sal heard the screams and mocking savage cries coming up over the
-water, and then the jagged cries of some oldsters who hadn't managed to
-get away.
-
-Still looking downstream toward the blazing pier, Sal pushed Cartley
-into the rowboat, and they shoved off. Sal started rowing, but he kept
-looking back.
-
-"They should have put them in the same shelters with us," Sal said,
-"that would have made a difference. But they put us in separate
-shelters."
-
-Only the oldest and the youngest had been saved. The old out of
-pity and because they were helpless, had been granted the safety of
-shelters. The young because they were the symbols of hope had been
-granted shelters, too.
-
-"No," Cartley said. "It started long before that. The chasm was
-building up long before the war. This alienation between the young and
-the old. Between the sun and the seed. That's what we've got to bring
-back, Sal. Between us, we have stored up a hundred and seventy-nine
-years of human culture. There isn't a kid back there, Sal, more than
-twelve years old."
-
-"We'll find a way," Sal said.
-
-The rowboat was about fifteen feet away from the thick reeds growing in
-the marshy ooze of the bank.
-
-Cartley heard the sound first and turned, his face white. When Sal
-looked toward the bank, he saw the girl. She came on out from the
-curtain of reeds and looked at them. She was perfectly clear in the
-moonlight standing there. She wore a short ragged print dress and she
-had long hair that seemed silken and soft and golden in the moonlight
-even though it, her dress, her little legs and her face were streaked
-with mud.
-
-Sal hesitated, then pulled heavily on his left oar and the boat nosed
-toward her. Up close, Sal could see her face, the clear blue eyes wet,
-and the tears running down her cheeks.
-
-The girl reached out and asked in a sobbing breath,
-
-"Granpa? Is that you, Granpa?"
-
-"Oh God, Oh God," Cartley said. He was crying as he picked her up and
-got her into the boat. He was rocking her in his arms and half crying
-and half laughing as Sal rowed the boat upstream.
-
-"Yes, yes, honey," Sal heard Cartley say over and over. "I'm your
-granpa, honey. Don't cry. Go to sleep now. I'm your granpa and I've
-been looking for you, honey, and now everything's going to be all
-right."
-
-It's funny, Sal thought, as he kept on rowing upstream. It's a funny
-thing how one little girl remembered her granpa, and how maybe that was
-the beginning of the bridge across the chasm.
-
-
-
-
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