“Father.”
“I am not of those who believe that understanding is not given to us, for I came to understand. The beginning and the ending of all things is in God, and we may not question, nor idly interpret the beginning and the end. We pass from dust to dust, but the spirit endureth for ever, and in all things in our passage the spirit moves us. Is it not so?”
“It is so.”
“And life is very good, to be rounded with a sleep.”
“Life is very good.”
“Surely I have not altogether failed my God, since I have known you.”
“We have known each other. A man must die many times before his life be done.”
“So be it. . . . I shall sleep now.”
Serge stooped and kissed his father’s brow, and in a few minutes he was dead.
THE END