re that others should see him. It was enough that she
should know that this great doctor Anthony had his weaknesses. The rest
of the world should not know it.

"Come out into the garden," she coaxed; "the air will do you good."

As they walked up and down the garden paths he gave her more definite
details. "She did not know that she was going. There was no reason to
trouble her gentle soul with fears. And so, at last, when she drifted
off into the silence, she was smiling."

"And I am sure that she was still smiling when on the other side she
found Love waiting."

"How wonderfully you put it, Di."

"It is not because I put it that way; it is because it is wonderful. Do
you know, Anthony, that has always been my idea of heaven--as a place
where Infinite Love waits. If that little child had lived she would
have faced a future of loneliness--now she will never be lonely--never
sick--never unhappy."

"But she wanted to live."

"But she didn't know life, Anthony--as some of us know it, as a place of
unfulfilled dreams----"

They had reached the beach, and the track of the moon spread out before
them, ending only at the horizon.

"She followed the path o' the moon," said Diana, softly, "a little white
soul in a silver boat. Death is a great adventure, Anthony."

"Sometimes I feel as if I were merely a longshoreman, who helps to load
the boats as they start on that great adventure----"

"What do you mean?"

"Oh, we doctors see so much of pain which we cannot ease, so much misery
which we cannot prevent. We see the innocent suffering for the
guilty--the weak bearing the burdens which belong to the strong--and
even if we try our hardest we can't change these things--and the boats
still go sailing out to the Unknown----"

"Anthony, I wish I might be sure of one thing----"

"What, dear girl----?"

"That you would never change your present point of view. So many
doctors lose faith in human nature because they see only the diseased
side, and their vision becomes distorted. And, losing their faith in
man, they lose faith in God. The thing which has always made you, in my
eyes, a great man as well as a great surgeon has been the fact that you
have seemed to understand that you were working with Infinite Love
toward the completion of a perfect plan; you have seemed to understand
that life is good as long as it is lived wisely and well; that death is
good when it ends suffering and sorrow. These things you have seen a