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send her. Yes, he could send it. So he made out a check for one thousand dollars and sent it to a close friend who could easily and s4atod ‘ n m1. 11 - 1 quickly locate Dora. That would relieve her of any financial worries. He mailed it, and felt wonderful about it. He was now free. Free to do what he pleased and should do. There was some unfinished business to be done here in the desert, but what it was he could not put his finger on. He just felt he must stay a while longer, then he would fly to Dora as fast as his car could go. All this day, Sunday, a day of rest, Adam was doing things that would seem insane to him any other time. Yet he was busy, settling his earthly affairs, for in one way or another be would not be long for this world. As if to prove it to himself, he put his finger on the little lump under his ear. The lump had changed. It was soft ww tow oe re 1oxar and barely discernible to the touch. Was everything going mad, or was it he? Did he have a dream last night, or was it a dream? Why had the car windows gathered dust? Why was it Sunday instead of var toa Wednesday? He had a dream “last night.” It seemed so realistic, insisting on thrusting itself into his wakeful memory. The gist of the dream seemed to ask of him, “Would you go into the sun, Adam, with only a problematical chance of coming out again?” He looked up at the sun, and its bright rays made him sneeze. That was nothing in comparison to what it could really do to him. In his consciousness he could sense that a beautiful and ascended woman would offer her very body and life to the sun, and surely many women would. Why not he? After all, he had only seven more months to live. Instant atomizing by the sun would be far better than the slow torture of his ailment, and if he should come out, oh, if he should come out again, what words he could leave for his fellow- men! Only Dora stood 1 14 14 Tod in his way, and he had mailed enough money to relieve her of her earthly worries. Would that not be enough her Would enough her that to bring happiness to her heart and reassure her that Adam still reserved a place for her in his deepest thoughts? happiness her heart and her to to reassure 184 SON OF THE SUN one else was on earth. Whatever she needed of Adam he could many women would. earthly worries.