"We just won't. We were just talking,
dreaming."
"I wasn't just talking. I told you I've
investigated this idea. I've been thinking and planning
it for a while now. Maybe everything is just a childish
fantasy to you. Hannah, but from where I sit, in the
world I am living in, it's the only real hope I have.
And from the way your uncle reacted and from the
things he told us, it sounds like the only real hope he
has, too.'
"But how can we do that? How can we take
someone like him on the road?"
"How were you going to take him home?" "He would be near available medical attention
all the time.," I said.
"We wouldn't exactly be in the Outback.
Hannah. We'd always be close to some sort of medical
help. Besides, he doesn't sound like he needs any. It
sounds like what he's getting is slowly killing him.
You wanted to do something for him. This is it!" he
emphasized.
I took a deep breath. I felt like I was falling,
like I had impulsively started to row a canoe down a
river and now I couldn't stop. The raging water had
taken over, and it could drive me to the rocks! "But take his money? I feel like we'd be taking
advantage of him. Heyden."
"Why? We'd be giving him something he really
wants and needs. Someday we'll pay him back.
Besides." he said, sitting back. "it would be better to
take him with us. and I don't mean just because of his
money."