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"See, for exa up here exposed to the weather" He pointed at the heavy stone railing "See how that is wrecked, for instance"

A whole segment, indeed, had fallen inward Its debris lay in confusion, blocking all the southern side of the platform

The bronze bars, which Stern well re a rail--had noasted to mere pocked wantonly aith the displacerasses had long been carrying on their destructive work

"Look out!" Stern cautioned "Don't lean against any of those stones" Firerly inquisitive, started to advance toward the railing

"Don't go anywhere near the edge Itwe know Keep back here, close to the wall"

Sharply he inspected it a one," said he, "but, so far as I can see, the steel fraether, I'll probably be able before long to make some sort of calculation of the date But for noe'll have to call it 'X,' and let it go at that"

"The year X!" she whispered under her breath "Good Heavens, am I as old as that?"

He ly, while all about them the war expanses of the bay--alone unchanged in all that universal wreckage

In the breeze her heavy ly He felt its silken caress on his half-naked shoulder, and in his ears the blood began to pound with strange insistence

Quite gone now the daze and drowsiness of the first wakening Stern did not even feel weak or shaken On the contrary, never had life bounded irl set his heart throbbing heavily, but he bit his lip and restrained every untoward thought

Only his ar body Beatrice did not shrink froan had woht, his strength and co, she could not--for the moment--find unhappiness within her heart

Quite vanished now, even in those brief , was all consciousness of their former relationship--employer and employed

The self-contained, courteous, yet unapproachable engineer had disappeared

Now, through all the extraneous disguise of his outer self, there lived and breathed just a or of his plentitude All else had been swept clean away by this great change