The Hidden Children by Robert William Chambers Chapter 17 Page 35

been Lana Helmer. It began ignobly; it continues through all this pain and bewilderment, a pure, clean current, running to the deep, still sea of dreams� . There it is lost; I follow it no further� . And were I here today as upright and as stainless as are you, Loskiel, still I could follow it no further than that sea of dreams. Nor would my viewless pilot lead me elsewhere than to the destiny of silence that awaits me; and none the less would I hear his whisper in my ears� . My race is run.”

I said: “Is it vain to appeal to your reason when your heart is heavy?”

“Had I another chance,” he said, “I would lighten the load of sin I bear — the heavy load I bear with me into the unknown.”

“God gives us all our chance.”