“Death, Julia, you mean death.  I think, dear, it is life,—­life that is all made straight; life where one can work and never be laid aside for illness; life where one can love, and fear no separation; life where one can do the big things he yearned to do, and be the big man he yearned to be with no hindrance of little petty things.  I think that death is life, the happy life.”

Julia, satisfied, returned to her canal, and Lark, with throbbing pity, patted Carol’s arm.

“Do you know, Larkie, I think that death is life on the top of a sunny slope, clear up on the peak where it touches the sky.  Such a big sunny slope that the canyons of shadow are miles and miles away, out of sight entirely.  I believe that David is living right along on the top of a sunny slope.”

Her father stepped to the window and tapped on the pane, waving down to them.  “I can’t keep away from this window,” he called.  “Whenever you twins get together I think I have to watch you just as I used to when you were mobbing the parsonage.”

The twins laughed, and when he went back to his desk they turned to each other with eyes that plainly said, “Isn’t he the grandest father that ever lived?”

Then Carol folded her hands behind her head again and looked dreamily up through the leafy maples, seeing the broad mesa stretching off miles away to the mountains, where the dark canyons underlined the sunny slopes.

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