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Four days later, having hastened all their preparations and worked with untiring energy, they broke ca, perilous trek in quest of the ruins of a dead and buried city

It was at daylight that they started froe of the forest Both were refreshed by a long sleep and by a plunge in the curling breakers that now, at high tide, were driven up the beach by a stiff sea-breeze

The , which must have been toward the end of September--Stern had lost accurate count but reckoned the day at about the twenty-fifth--dawned clear and bracing, with just a tang of winelike exhilaration in the air Before them the beach spread away and away to eastward, beyond the line of vision, a broad and yellow road to bid theirl, en marche!" cried the man cheerily, as he adjusted Beta's knapsack so that the platted cord should not chafe her shoulders, then swung his own across his back And with a buoyant sense of conquest, yet a regret at leaving the little cah, had yet been a ho sun and set out on the journey into the unexplored

Much altered were they now from those days at Hope Villa, when they had been able to restore most of the necessities and even soirl's hair hung in two thick braids down over her worn tiger-skin, each braid as big as a strong man's wrist, for she lacked any means to do it up; she had not so much as a comb, nor could Stern, without a knife, fashion one for her Their sandals hung in tatters Stern had tried to repair them with strips of squirrel-skin clumsily hacked out with the sharp cla were his hair and beard, untriarrass-cloth sack slung over his sinewy shoulder and the heavy stone-ax in his hand, he looked the very ie of prehistoric e

But though their outward guise was that of savages far cruder than the North American Indian hen Columbus first beheld him, yet in their brains lay all the splendid inheritance of a world-civilization And as the fire-ered everything that yet ers who foreseeand who are cautious not at first to drain their strength Five hours they walked, with now and then a pause Stern calculated they had made twelvethinly from the wood, sank into the sand and was lost before it reached the sea