You are already beginning to do it; and yesterday his niche was the higher....

Yet, after all--after all--" [Illustration: "Then Rita came silently on sandalled feet to stand behind him and look at what he had done."] He nodded.

"Yes," he said, "what does it matter to him, now?
A man carves out his resting place as you say, but he carves it out in vain.
Those who come after him will either place him in his proper sepulchre ...

or utterly neglect him....

And neglect or transfer will cause him neither happiness nor pain....