The Golden Key

You have tasted of death now,'said the old man. 'Is it good?' 'It is good,'said Mossy. 'It is better than life.''No,'said the old man: 'it is only more life.

Then the Old Man of the Earth stooped over the floor of the cave, raised a huge stone from it, and left it leaning. It disclosed a great hole that went plumb-down. That is the way, he said. But there are no stairs. You m…