She shook her head, a mist shining in her sad eyes. "Not on this trip. Not without Jacob. I'll get one of our desert taxis back to Hoover City. Then I'll be going to Earth for a while. I've got some thinking to do and thinking is done best on Earth. Out here is the place for _feeling_." Her eyes lost a little of their pain. "But I'll be back. Jacob wouldn't stay on Earth. Neither will I. I'll be seeing you." The big-eared man put his hand on Ben's shoulder. "Think you can get us back to Juno?" he asked. Ben looked at Maggie and then at the big-eared man. "You're as good as there," he said confidently. End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of A Coffin for Jacob, by Edward W. Ludwig