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On, on they sailed,at the terrific destruction on either hand--the dense forests non over Brooklyn and New York alike

"We'll be there before long now," said Allan "And if we have any luck at all, and nothing happens, we ought to be started for hoht sail up the Hudson, do you?"

It was past four by the ti the rotten docks and ruined hulks of stea the reeds and rushes noing rank at the foot of what had once been Twenty-Third Street

A huge sea-tortoise, disturbed, slid off the sand-bank where he had been sunning himself and paddled sulkily away A blue heron flapped up froht, its long neck crooked, legs dangling absurdly

"Soht," coot to be a deal of work done here before things are right again But there's tih--there's all the time we need, we and the people who shall co that the tide was high and that the leather cord was securely tied to a gnarledthat grew at the water's edge Half an hour later they had made their way across town to Madison Avenue

It ith strange feelings they once htful odds with the Horde Stern was especially curious to note the effect of his Pulverite, not only on the building itself but on the square

This effect exceeded his expectations Less than two hundred feet of the tower now stood and the whole western facade was but aruin

Out on the Square the huge el in titanic confusion, like a gaiants' jack-straws And vast conical excavations showed, here and there, where vials of the explosive had struck the earth Gravel and rocks had even been thrown over the Metropolitan Building itself into the woodland glades of Madison Avenue And, worse, bits of bone--a leg-bone, a shoulder-blade, a broken skull with flesh still adhering--here or therethe vultures have been busy here," commented Stern "If they hadn't, the place wouldn't be even approachable Gad! I thank ot to do won't take more than an hour If we had to stay here after dark I'd surely have the creeps, in spite of allretrospective We're living in the present and future now; not the past Got the plaited cords Beatrice? We'll need the to make up our bundle with"