He had always been prepared to face facts himself, and he had trained Sara in the same stern creed.
So that now, when he quietly stated in plain language the thing which she had been inwardly dreading for some weeks--for, though silent on the matter, she had not failed to observe his appearance of increasing frailty--she took it like a thorough-bred.

Her eyes dilated a little, but her voice was quite steady as she said: "You mean----" "I mean that before very long I shall put off this vile body." He glanced down whimsically at his useless legs, cloaked beneath the inevitable rug.

"After all," he continued, "life--and death--are both fearfully interesting if one only goes to meet them instead of running away from them.

Then they become bogies." "And what shall I do.

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