ok their upward flight. Then came pain and strangulation. This hurt
was not death, was the thought that oscillated through his reeling
consciousness. Death did not hurt. It was life, the pangs of life, this
awful, suffocating feeling; it was the last blow life could deal him.

His wilful hands and feet began to beat and churn about, spasmodically
and feebly. But he had fooled them and the will to live that made them
beat and churn. He was too deep down. They could never bring him to the
surface. He seemed floating languidly in a sea of dreamy vision. Colors
and radiances surrounded him and bathed him and pervaded him. What was
that? It seemed a lighthouse; but it was inside his brain--a flashing,
bright white light. It flashed swifter and swifter. There was a long
rumble of sound, and it seemed to him that he was falling down a vast and
interminable stairway. And somewhere at the bottom he fell into
darkness. That much he knew. He had fallen into darkness. And at the
instant he knew, he ceased to know.

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