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The idea that there ht possibly be others of their kind in far-distant parts of the earth worked strongly on the ain to her coht be a few score of others, ht awaken one by one, only to die, if less favorably situated than we happen to be Perhaps thousands may have slept, like us, only to wake up to starvation!"

"There's no telling, of course," he answered seriously "Undoubtedly that reat death, on high altitudes--on the Eiffel Tower, for instance, or on certain mountains or lofty plateaus The uess at the probabilities And--"

"But if there are people elsewhere?" she interrupted eagerly, her eyes gloith hope, "isn't there any way to get in touch with them? Why don't we hunt? Suppose only one or two in each country should have survived; if we could get thele colony--don't you see?"

"You ht still be preserved? The colony ain take possession of the earth and conquer it, in a few decades? Yes, of course But even though there shouldn't be anybody else, there's no cause for despair Of that, however, on't speak now"

"But why don't we try to find out about it?" she persisted "If there were only the reineer, fired with a new thought, a fresh ambition "How? I don't know just yet, but I'll see There'll be a way, right enough, if I can only think it out!"

That afternoon he made his way down Broadway, past the copper-shop, to the reraph office opposite the Flatiron

Into it he penetrated with soanglion of the nation's nerve-systeone, instru in hideous disorder

But in a rear rooe quantity of copper wire The wooden druone; the insulation had vanished, but the coils of wire still reether several coils "Nohen I get this over to the Metropolitan, I think the first step toward success will have been taken"

By nightfall he had accuh wire for his tentative experiirl explored the re, overlooking Madison Avenue