side
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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