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She and her " Now

Kate tried as never before to understand what, and where, and why,

that "so" was Many days she would sit for an hour at a

ti, and at last she arrived at fixed convictions that

settled ed

the fall roses she had grown, and so, she sat in deep thought, when a car stopped

on the road Kate looked up to see Robert co across the

churchyard with his ar bunch of deep red for her e

sheaf of war her

flowers, she moved theht Then she sat where she had been, and looked

at hi the 'why,' Kate?"

"'Why' doesn't so h of a fatalist to believe that Mother is here because she

was old and worn out Polly had a clear case of uric poison,

while I'd stakeover the picture

she carried when she ran into that loose sand In each of their

cases I a that holdssure of, is 'where'"

Robert glanced upward and asked: "Isn't there rooh up

there, Kate?"

"Too much!" said Kate "And what IS the soul, and HOW can it

bridge the vortex lying between us and other worlds, that man

never can, because of the lack of air to breathe, and support

him?"

"I don't know," said Robert; "and in spite of the fact that I do

knohat a man CANNOT do, I still believe in the immortality of

the soul"