father ’s being well known, and above all with the policeman. He sighed happily, and when the policeman took his hand in crossing a street, his cup of joy ran over, and he left his small hand inside the vast one. They walked in silence down another block. He asked, “Do you have a little boy?” “No, Robert. I should have liked a dozen, but I shall never have a single one.” “How can you tell?” “Sometimes,” the policeman said, “it is possible to know.” The sergeant at once took third place in omniscience…
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