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The girl's gaze was directed at a certain spot which she kneell

"Oh, I can even see--into sohteenth floor!" cried she "There, look?" And she pointed "That one near the front! I--I used to know--"

She broke short off In her tre hands the telescope sank Stern saw that she was very pale

"Take er--I can't, possibly! The sight of that wrecked office! Let's go dohere I can't see that!"

Gently, as though she had been a frightened child, Stern led her round the platfor stairs and so to the wreckage and dust-strewn confusion of what had been his office

And there, his hand upon her shoulder, he bade her still be of good courage

"Listen now, Beatrice," said he "Let's try to reason this thing out together, let's try to solve this probles

"Just what's happened, we don't knoe can't know yet a while, till I investigate We don't even knohat year this is

"Don't knohether anybody else is still alive, anywhere in the world But we can find out--after we've made provision for the immediate present and forone, swept aiped out clean like figures on a slate, then e should have happened to survive whatever it was that struck the earth, is still a riddle far beyond our comprehension"

He raised her face to his, noble despite all its grotesque disfigureh to read the very soul of her, to judge whether she could share this fight, could brave this cos et the proper data for this series of phenomena, I can find the solution, never fear!

"Soreater, infinitelythat either of us has ever dreamed It's not our place, now, to mourn or fear! Rather it is to read this irl sly And in the last declining rays of the sun that glinted through the -pane, her eyes were very beautiful