"If you'll run right back to bed, I'll do it," Burgess declared.
"We can learn even from children sometimes," he thought,
as Bug climbed down obediently and toddled away.

Vincent Burgess went directly to Dr. Lloyd Fenneben, to whom
he told the story of the day's events, including the interview
with Bond Saxon. He did not repeat Bond's words regarding Vic,
but only hinted at the suspicion that there was something
questionable in the situation in which Vic was placed.
Nor did he refer to the old man's maudlin demand that he should
take care of Dennie if she were left fatherless, and of his sworn
promise to do so.

Burgess felt as, if the Dean's black eyes would burn through him,
so steady was their gaze while the story was being told.
When he had finished, Lloyd Fenneben said quietly:

"You are worn out with the excitement of the day and night.
Go home and rest now. I've learned through many a struggle,
that what I cannot fight to a finish in the darkness, I can
safely leave with God till the daylight comes."

The smile that lighted up the stern face and the firm handclasp
with which Lloyd Fenneben dismissed the young man were things
he remembered long afterward. And above all, he recalled many
times a sense of secret shame that he should have felt degraded
because of his association with Dennie Saxon on this day.
But of this last, the memory was stronger than the present realization.