Chapter 22 CHAPTER XXII

"I am old and very tired, though to strangers I am young;

Life was just a sporting gamble, but for me the game is done;

It was worth it, and I'm scoffing now the reckoning has come;

That's the worst of too much loving-

Hurts like Hades when it's done."

FEATHERS' relief was so great that at first he could not speak, and she went on tr