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Presently Beatrice grew calhed upon her soul, she realized that this was no fit tis were pressing for accomplishment, if their own lives, too, were not presently to be snuffed out in all this universal death

"Coet a complete idea of what has happened Fro her by the hand he led her along the cruether, very cautiously, they explored the three sides of the platform still unchoked by ruins

Out over the incredible ain they fortified their vision by recourse to the telescope

Nowhere, as he had said, was any slightest sign of life to be discerned Nowhere a thread of smoke arose; nowhere a sound echoed upward

Dead lay the city, between its rivers, whereon now no sail glinted in the sunlight, no tug puffed vehemently with plumy jets of steam, no liner idled at anchor or nosed its slow course out to sea

The Jersey shore, the Palisades, the Bronx and Long Island all lay buried in dense forests of conifers and oak, with only here and there soh

The islands in the harbor, too, were thickly overgrown On Ellis, no sign of the ione And with a gasp of diser Liberty held her bronze torch aloft

Save for a black, ift of France was nothe water-front, all the way round, the mournful remains of the docks and piers lay in a mere sodden juside

Even over these wrecks of liners, vegetation was growing rank and green All the wooden ships, barges and schooners had utterly vanished

The telescope showed only a stray, lollingup fro hand raised to a Heaven that responded not

"See," res seem to have crumbled in upon themselves, or to have fallen outward into the streets What an inconceivable tangle of detritus those streets must be!

"And, do you notice the park hardly shows at all? Everything's so overgroith trees you can't tell where it begins or ends Nature has her revenge at last, on man!"

"The universal claireen, I suppose, er streets See how the avenues stretch away and away, like ribbons of green velvet?"