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"Not so thick but we can ht days we can reach the Hub And we shall have the help of tools and guns, remember In a place the size of Providence thereof value Yes, by all means the overland route is best, from now on It means forty reed upon it; and, having settled ht, but prepared for rest And sunset ca the forest-line to ard; it burned to dull tiue purples, then went out And "the wind that runs after the sun awoke and sang softly a of a choir invisible, and was silent again"

There by the firelight he half saw, half sensed her presence, vague and beautiful despite the travel-worn, tattered skin that clothed her He felt her warht hers and pressed it, and the pressure was returned And with a thrill of overwhelirl was to him and what his loveafter dark they sat and talked of the future, and of life and death, and of the soul and of the great mystery that had swept the earth clean of all of their kind and had left them, alone, of all those fifteen hundredout a patch of sky and stars, moved slowly the dark object which had so puzzled Stern since the first ti he meant to know about and solve, once he could reach the Cae Observatory And of this, too, they talked; but neither he nor she could solve the riddle of its nature

Their talk together, that night, was typical of the relationship that had grown up between the in the Tower Almost all, if not quite all, the old-time idea of sex had faded--the old, false assumption on the part of the man that he was by his very nature the superior of wo; their friendship, conition of absolute equality, save for Stern's accidental physical superiority It was as though they had been two er than the other, so far as the notion of equality went; though this by no netic sex-emotion which, in other aspects, thrilled and attracted and infused them both