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Dis, a sign of consciousness began to dawn in the face of the tranced girl

Once an to stir in that full bosoain a vital warmth had on this day of days crept slowly back

And as she lay there, prone upon the dusty floor, her beautiful face buried and shielded in the hollow of her ar back again! Theto reality

Faintly now she breathed; vaguely her heart began to throb once more She stirred She moaned, still for theincubus of that tremendous, dreaers tangled themselves in the masses of thick, luxuriant hair which lay outspread all over and about her The eyelids tre up, dazed and utterly uncoest vision which since the world began had ever been the lot of any human creature to behold--the vision of a place transformed beyond all power of the intellect to understand

For of the rooht when (so long, so very long, ago) her eyes had closed with that sudden and unconquerable drowsiness, of that roo, floor of rust-red steel and cruic Here or there a heap of whitish dust betrayed where some of its detritus still lay

Gone was every picture, chart, and map--which--but an hour since, it see engineer, this aerie up in the forty-eighth story of the Metropolitan Tower

Furniture, there noas none Over the still-intact glass of the s cobere draped so thickly as ale, fly-infested curtain where once neat green shade-rollers had hung

Even as the bewildered girl sat there, lips parted, eyes ith a prey and scae, leathery bat, suspended upside down in the far corner, cheeped with dry, crepitant sounds of irritation

Beatrice rubbed her eyes

"What?" she said, quite slowly "Dreaular! I only wish I could remember this when I wake up Of all the dreaest So real, so vivid! Why, I could swear I ake--and yet--"

All at once a sudden doubt flashed into her reith a great fear; the fear of utter and absolute incomprehension