The Last Rung on the Ladder Summary

Larry returns home from Los Angeles to find a letter waiting for him from his sister. The letter causes Larry to recall a time when he and his sister were small children. They lived on a farm that had an old barn with a third loft. There was a ladder that went from the floor all the way to that third loft, but it was old and the children had been warned not to play on it. One afternoon while their parents were gone, they began to play a game they had played dozens of times before. Larry and Katrina would climb to the top of the third loft and then jump down into the hay bin. Larry went first, then Katrina. Over and over they climbed and jumped, with no concern to...