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"If anybody else had been spared, whether in Chicago or San Francisco, in London, Paris or Hong-Kong, they'd have et in touch with New York This, the prime center of the financial and industrial world, would have been their first objective point"

"But suppose," asked she, "there were others, just a few here or there, and they'd only recently waked up, like ourselves Could they have succeeded inthemselves known to us so soon?"

He shook a dubious head

"There may be some one else, somewhere," he answered slowly, "but there's nobody else in this part of the world, anyhow Nobody in this particular Eden but just you and me To all intents and purposes I'm Adam And you--well, you're Eve! But the tree? We haven't found that--yet"

She gave hilance, then let her head fall, so that he could not see her eyes But up over her neck, her cheek and even to her temples, where the lustrous masses of hair fell away, he saw a tide of color ot to sleam in his eyes

And no word passed between thehts--?