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Pages on pages would not tell the full details of the folloeek--the talks they had, the snaring and shooting of salow, and the beginnings of so of Stern's arinnings of life there by the river-bank

But there are other s; so noe co imperative of a return to the tower For he lacked tools in every way; he needed them to build furniture, doors, shutters; to clear away the brush and make the place orderly, rational and beautiful; to start work on his projected laboratory and power-plant; for a thousand purposes

He wanted his binoculars, his shotgun and rifles, and much ammunition, as well as a boat-load of canned supplies and other goods Instruh Beatrice still, oh alone for the present, and stay away frohastly deeds as had taken place on the last day of the invasion by the Horde, Stern eventually convinced and overargued her; and on what he calculated to be the 16th day of June, 2912--the tenth day since the fight--they set sail for Manhattan A favoring northerly breeze, joined with a clear sky and sunshine of unusual brilliancy, ala time for both As they put their supplies of fish, squirrel-meat and breadfruit aboard the banca and shoved the rude craft off the sand, both she and he felt like children on an outing

Allan's arm was noell that he peroration of this was still upon hi, he raised the cluh-hewn er-skin at the stern, took one of the paddles, and s of his sail in his hand Thus happy in comradeship, they sailed away to southward, down the blue wonder of the river, flanked by headlands, wooded heights, crags, cliffs and Palisades, now all alike deserted

Noon found theranite that once had borne aloft the suburbs of Englewood Stern recognized the conforh he looked hard, could find no trace of the Interstate Park road that once had led from top to bottom of the Palisades, nor any rehts there