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"But," and her voice quivered just a trifle, "but suppose some wolf or bear--"

"Oh, I'oing to venture outside till to-morrow My idea is that I can find at least a few essentials right here in this building

"It's a city in itself--or was Offices, stores, shops, everything right here together in a lue out so for your comfort

"Now that the first shock and surprise of our awakening are over, we can't go on in this way, you know--h'arb!"

Silently she looked at his diure in the dusk Then she stretched out her hand

"I'll go too," said she quite si"

"But if we run into dangers?"

"Never mind Take me with you"

Over to her he came He took her hand In silence he pressed it Thus for ahiht? How can you ht? Why, there isn't a match left anywhere in this whole world"

"I know, but there are other things Probably my chemical flasks and vials aren't injured Glass is practically imperishable And if I' somewhere in that rubbish heap over by the "

He left her wondering, and knelt ah the triturated bits of punky wood and rust-red metal that now represented the remains of his chemical cabinet

All at once he exclaimed: "Here's one! And here's another! This certainly is luck! H-ot almost all of thelass vials Some were broken, probably by the shock when they and the cabinet had fallen, but a goodthese were the two essential ones By the last dih the , and by the sense of touch, Stern was able to raved symbols "P" and "S" on these bottles

"Phosphorus and sulphur," he commented "Well, what more could I reasonably ask? Here's alcohol, too, herirl watched, ondering adht hard a moment Then he set to work

First he took a piece of the corroded hteen inches long, frail in places, but still sufficiently strong to serve his purpose