It began ignobly; it continues through all this pain and bewilderment, a pure, clean current, running to the deep, still sea of dreams....

There it is lost; I follow it no further....

And were I here today as upright and as stainless as are you, Loskiel, still I could follow it no further than that sea of dreams.

Nor would my viewless pilot lead me elsewhere than to the destiny of silence that awaits me; and none the less would I hear his whisper in my ears....

My race is run." I said: "Is it vain to appeal to your reason when your heart is heavy ?" "Had I another chance," he said, "I would lighten the load of sin I bear--the heavy load I bear with me into the unknown." "God gives us all our chance." "He gave me my last chance at Tioga Fort.