"So it ends" , the narrator tells us, "perhaps much as you have not claimed this will be a story . . that you had never heard revenge tends . to write itself an ending" . This is a good thing, because we're not sure what to make of the ending. The narrator then tells us that it's best to wait, because there's more to life than "spike our selves" in such situations. He also tells us about the story of the thief and the father, and how the father never knew his son's name. He's so sorry that he didn't know the father's identity. He says that he's the one who first told the story about the father and the thief, and that's why he gave the thief to the father. It's a shame that the story doesn't have a happy ending, because the stories give us hope that things can get better, even in the face of adversity.