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"All right; then we can get a good, early start, on Monday ht"

They worked out everything to its last otten, from ammunition to the soap which Stern had made out of moose-fat and wood-ashes and had pressed into cakes; frooods to toothbrushes etable fibers set in bone; from provisions even to a plentiful supply of birch-bark leaves for taking notes

"Monday randest lark two people ever had since tian! Built and stocked as the Adventure is, she's safe enough for anything from here to Europe

"Name the place you want to see, and it's yours Florida? Bermuda? Mediterranean? With the conetic variations, and with the ood for anything, including a trip around the world

"The survivors will be surprised to see a fully stocked yawl putting in to rescue the the Captain Cook stunt, hite people for subjects!"

"Yes, but I' us the way Captain Cook was; are you? And what if we shouldn't find anybody, dear? What then?"

"How can we help finding people? Could a billion and a half hule isolated group so them with the wireless from the Metropolitan, Allan"

"Never es; that's all We surelycities we can reach by water, either along He coast or by running up the Mississippi or along the St Lawrence and through the lakes There's Boston, of course, and Philadelphia, New Orleans, San Francisco, St Louis, Chicago--dozens of others--no end of places!"

"Oh, if they're only not all like New York!"

"That remains to be seen There's all of Europe, too, and Africa and Asia--why, the whole orld is ours! We're so rich, girl, that it staggers the iination--we're the richest people that have ever lived, you and I The 'pluses' in the old days owned their millions; but e own the whole earth!"

"Not if there's anybody else alive, dear"

"That's so Well, I'll be glad to share it with 'em, for the sake of a handshake and a 'howdy,' and a chance to start things going again Do you know, I rather count on finding a few scattered remnants of folk in London, or Paris, or Berlin?