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Though they forced their way into ten or twelve of the arcade shops, they found no clothing, no blankets or fabric of any kind that would serve for coverings or to sleep upon Everything at all in the nature of cloth had either sunk back into ile to be of the slightest service

They found, however, a furrier's shop, and this they entered eagerly

Fro, moth-eaten, riddled with holes, ready to cru in any of these to help us," judged Stern "Butelse in here"

Carefully they searched the littered place, all dust and horrible disarray, which n still visible on the : "Lange, Importer All the Latest Novelties"

On the floor Stern discovered three more of those little dust-middens which meant human bodies, pitiful reo What had he now in conance in hiladness "Look here! A storage chest!"

True enough, there stood a cedar box, all sea a ses and the lock were still quite plainly to be seen, as the engineer held the torch close, though green and corroded with incredible age

One effort of Stern's powerful arms sufficed to tip the chest quite over As it fell it burst Down in a rated

Out rolled furs, many and many of therizzly, of the leopard, the chetah, the royal Bengal hi up first one, then another, and still a third "Almost intact A little iot clothes and beds

"What's that? Yes, maybe they are a trifle warm for this season of the year, but this is no time to be particular See, no do you like that?"

Over the girl's shoulders, as he spoke, he flung the tiger-skin

"Magnificent!" he judged, standing back a pace or two and holding up the torch to see her better "When I find you a big gold pin or clasp to fasten that with at the throat you'll make a picture of another and h at his oords, but merriment sat ill there in that place, and with such a subject For the woman, thus clad, had suddenly assumed a wild, barbaric beauty