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The girl was different, too Was this strong worapher he remembered, busy only with her machine, her file-boxes, and her carbon-copies? Stern dared not realize the transhts

To divert his wonderings and to ease a situation which oppressed hi the "level" telescope to his eye

With his back planted firainst the tower, he studied a wide section of the dead and buried world so very far below them With astonish's swept clean away Nothing left, nothing at all--no signs of life!

"As far as I can reach with these lenses, universal ruin We're all alone in this whole world, just you and I--and everything belongs to us!"

"Everything--all ours?"

"Everything! Even the future--the future of the human race!"

Suddenly he felt her trereat new tenderness possessing hi in her eyes

Beatrice pressed both hands to her face and bowed her head Filled with strange emotions, thethe uselessness of any words, knowing that in this narok of all huency or , he took her in his arms

And there alone with her, far above the ruined world, high in the pure air of ht-of and unknown to him