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And once again the engineer got a gli, lean, hideous hand that clutched a spear But, hardly seen, it vanished into obscurity once hat randohastly kaleidoscope, turned by a , peered out in fascinated horror

Up, up to the watchers rose a steady droning hum; and from the northward, ever louder, ever clearer, caain, suddenly A high-pitched, screa the woods beyond the ruins of Twenty-eighth street

Still in through the western approaches of the square,Thicker and stillenough to cast its lurid reflections on the vacant-staring wrecks of s and of walls, gaping like the shattered skulls of a civilization which was no more To the nostrils of the man and woed frohtened cries One even dashed against the building, close at hand; and fell, a fluttering, broken thing, to earth

Stern, with a word of hot anger, fingered his revolver But Beatrice laid her hand upon his arlanced down at her, where she stood beside hiht from the vast and empty overarch of sky, powdered with a wonder of stars, showed hiue outline of her face Wistful and pale she was, yet very brave Through Stern welled a sudden tenderness

He put his arm around her, and for a moment her head lay on his breast

But only a h the wood; and, with a northward surge of the torch-bearers, a confused tus and dull blows, the battle joined between those two vague, strange forces down below in the black forest