Would you care to go upstairs ?" She moved to the door.

Paul threw off his overcoat and, followed by Barney Bill, accompanied her.

On the landing they were met by the nurse.
"It is all over," she said.
"I will go in for a moment," said Paul.

"I should like to be alone." In a room hung like the rest of the house with gaudy pictures he stood for a short while looking at the marble face of the strange-souled, passionate being that had been his father.

The lids had closed for ever over the burning, sorrowful eyes; the mobile lips were for ever mute.
In his close sympathy with the man Paul knew what had struck him down.
It was not the blow of the nameless enemy, but the stunning realization that he was not, after all, the irresistible nominee of the Almighty.
His great faith had not suffered; for the rigid face was serene, as though he had accepted this final chastisement and purification before entrance into the Eternal Kingdom; but his high pride, the mainspring of his fanatical life, had been broken and the workings of the physical organism had been arrested.