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Beatrice, like the true wo task ofa real home out of the barren desolation of the fifth floor offices Her splendid energy was no less than the engineer's And very soon a comfortable air pervaded the place

Sternithes and lashing them with hide strips onto a trim appearance set in

To supple one of the walls, Stern shot what gaes and rabbits

Metal dishes, especially of solid gold, ravished from Fifth Avenue shops, took their place on the crude table he had fashioned with his ax Not for esthetic effect did they now value gold, but es of tinificent store near Thirty-First Street, Stern found a vault burst open by frost and slow disintegration of the steel

Here soh and cut, were lying in confusion all about Stern took none of these Their value noas no greater than that of any pebble

But he chose a old for Beatrice, for that could serve to fasten her robe And in addition he gathered up a few rings and onetiirl, after all, was one of Eve's daughters

Bit by bit he accu solass bottles, and a variety of gold toilet articles Use was his first consideration now Beauty came far behind

In the corner of their rooms, after a time, stood a fair variety of tools, soround and hefted, and in soh chairs , becae and oven all in one For here, close to a here the smoke could drift out, Stern built a circular stone fireplace

And here Beatrice presided over her copper casseroles and saucepans from the little shop on Broadway Here, too, Stern planned to construct a pair of skin bellows, and presently to set up the altars of Vulcan and of Tubal Cain once ods there be" that the girl was a good cook She aed to concoct froa near the spring These edibles, with the blackest of black coffee, soon had them in fine fettle