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Derry had grown a sort of bond with Mr. Lamb. He wanted to help him in getting the crab apples down. But he said that his mother would want to know where he is. Mr. Lamb asks him to go back and tell her. Derry told him that once he got home, they had never let him come back. Mr. Lamb said that once Derry got home, he had never let himself come back. When Mr. Lamb goes to see the bees, Derry shouts that he is going but he will come back. But Mr. Lamb says to himself that they never come back.
Derry after reaching home finds that his mother does not seem to have good impression about Mr. Lamb. But Derry told her that Mr. Lamb is an old man with a tin leg and he lives in a huge house without curtains and has a garden.
He told her that Mr. Lamb tells him the things that matter, things nobody else has said and things he wants to think about. He intimates that he is going back there only to help him with the crab apples. His mother persuades him not to go, but he runs and reaches Mr. Lamb’s garden. Derry finds him lying dead on the ground. So Mr. Lamb could not see him. Derry says that he did come back.