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"See!" exclaiineer, and pointed
There, far away to ard, a few straggling lights--only a very few--slowly and uncertainly weretheir way across the broad black breast of the river
Even as the man and woman watched, one vanished Then another winked out, and did not reappear No more than fifteen seeuely, sloay and vanish in the dense pri, too The night's half spent By ot to leave the city?"
"Yes There's no such thing as staying here now The tower's quite untenable Racked and shaken as it is, it's liable to fall at any time But, even if it should stand, we can't live here any more"
"But--where now?"
"I don't just know So in this whole vicinity is ruined The spring's gone Nothing re but horror and death Pestilence is bound to sweep this place in the wake of such a--such an affair
"The sights all about here aren't such as you should see Neither should I We mustn't even think of them Some way or other we can find a path down out of here, away--away--"
"But," she cried anxiously, "but all our treasures? All the tools and dishes, all the food and clothing, and everything? All our precious, hard-won things?"
"Nothing left of the, I' but a vast hole blown out of the side of the tower So there's nothing left to salvage Nothing at all"
"Can you replace the things?"
"Why not? Wherever we settle doe can get along for a few days on what gaes And after that--"
"Yes?"
"After that, once we get established a little, I can coain What we've lost is a mere trifle compared to what's left in New York Why, the latent resources of this vast ruin haven't been even touched yet! We've got our lives That's the only vital factor With those everything else is possible It all looks dark and hard to you now, Beatrice But in a few days--wait and see!"
"Allan!"
"What, Beatrice?"
"I trust you in everything I' before us Co of a wolfpack, as the wan crescent of the moon came up the untroubled sky, they reached the brink of the river, almost due west of where the southern end of Central Park hall been