No; there is a justice.
But how it operates I shall never understand until it summons me to hear my sentence." "You will return and do what a contrite heart bids you to do," I said.
"If that might be," he said gently, "that would I do--for the child's sake and for hers." "Good God!" I said under my breath.
"Did you not surmise it ?" "No." "Well, then, now you know how deeply I am damned....

God gave me a last chance.

There was a chaplain at the fort." "Kirkland." "Yes, Gann went forward....

But--God's grace was not within me....

And to see her angered me--that and the blinding hurt I had when Lana left--heart-broken, wretched, still loving me, but consigning me to my duty....