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He understood; he knew that, fortune favoring, life still beckoned there ahead

And in his heart resolve leaped up

"Life! Life!" he cried "Oh, Beatrice, look! See! There's land ahead, there--land!"

But the girl, still circled by his arress in that ed to draw her somewhat onto the float and there to lash her with a loose end of cordage in such wise that she could breathe with no danger of drowning

Hih the srateful heat, vastly unlike the usual ocean chill, stretched lazily rolling away and away to that far off shore

That day was long and bitter, an agony of toil, hope, despair, labor and struggle, and the girl, reviving, shared it toward the end Only their frail raft fenced death away, but so long as the buoyant planks held together they could not drown

Thirst and exhaustion tortured them, but there was no hope of appeal to any help In this ulls wheeled and screalistening as they curved their shining backs in long leaps through the brine, played past Allan and the girl envied the creatures, and renewed their fight for life

The south wind favored, and what seeth, too, in spite of the long fast and the incredible hardships, held out well For now that civilization was a thing of the oblivious past, they shared the vital forces and the very powers of Mother Nature herself And, like two favored children of that all-mother, they slowly made their way to land

Night found them utterly exhausted and soaked to the th, inert, upon the warh tide, whither they had dragged themselves with terrible exertion And the stars wheeled overhead; and down upon theleam

Fireless, foodless and without shelter, unprotected in every way, possessing nothing now save just their own bodies and the draggled garments that they wore, they lay and slept In their supreme exhaustion they risked attack from wild beasts and from anthropoids Sleep to the night hours passed and strength revived in the like fresh tides of life; and once old and blazoned its insignia all up the eastern sky