last nineteen years of you have made it so well worth living.”  Happiness wins hands down.  Take any hundred of us out here, and for ten who are miserable you will find ninety who are lively and laughing.  Life is good—­else why should we cling to it as we do?—­oh, yes, we surely do, especially when the chances are all against us.  Life is good, and youth is good.  I have had twenty glorious years.

I may be whimsical to-night, but I feel that the old Colonel was right when he saw nothing unlovely in Penny’s death; and that Monty was right when he said that Doe had done a perfect thing at the last, and so grasped the Grail.  And I have the strange idea that very likely I, too, shall find beauty in the morning.

THE END