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 and crannies, until he came to the hard, back wall and could go no farther;—but he had found no darkness.

Come, show me your darkness!' he called to the man. 'Where is it? It has had no chance to escape. Where can it be?'

"But the man could only shake his head. 'I cannot tell you,' he said.

"And so the sun went back up into the sky, his curiosity unsatisfied; for he had found no shade or shadow of darkness, not in all his search."

I sat still. I wasn't kicking the railing now. "I see," I said, slowly. "The sun could never see or know darkness, because it stops being, whenever he comes."

"Yes," said Uncle Rob, "and evil stops being, wherever God is."

"Yes," I said.

"And where is God, Infinite Mind, Infinite Good,—all the time?"

"Everywhere." Then I was quiet. I felt as if something big had suddenly come into my life, and I didn't want to talk.

We sat there for a long time, until Mother came out and asked if we had gone to sleep; and then