Buddy the Magician -- page 3

So, finally, the hero arrives at Best Friends Dogtown where he does indeed get to live happily ever after.

And so, as it turns out, does everyone else:

The shelter is happy because they saved his life.

The newspapers and TV are happy because they got a great story with a happy ending.

The firefighters got to do a famous rescue.

And Kimberly and her neighbor and everyone else in North Carolina are all delighted, as well.

(I have still been unable to establish what happened to the groceries.)

Tammy says that Buddy is probably a magician, after all, and that it was all part of some great plan for him to fall down the well on top of Kimberly so that everyone could have a great adventure together and do lots of good stuff.

. . . And, of course, so that I could get back to the magazine after a year's absence!