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"Then again, the rate of this present deterioration of stone and steel has furnished another index And last night I had a little peek at the pole-star, through ood old star has certainly shifted out of place a bit Furtheres in the animals and plants about us Those have helped, too"

"And--and what have you found out?" asked she with treot the answer, more or less correctly Of course it's only an approxi But the different iteree of consistency

"And I' I'm within at least a hundred years of the date one way or the other Not a bad factor of safety, that, with irl's eyes widened Froold cup; it rolled away across the clean-swept floor

"What?" cried she "You've got it, within a hundred years! Why, then--you ineer suess, for instance, how old you really are--and growing younger every day?"

"Two hundred maybe? Oh surely not as old as that! It's horrible to think of!"

"Listen," bade he "If I count your twenty-four years, when you went to sleep, you're now--"

"What?"

"You're now at the very minimum calculation, just about one thousand and twenty-four! Soe, that, eh?"

Then, as she stared at hi that fact, no dodging it The thing's as certain as that you're now the most beautiful woman in the whole orld!"