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"By Jove, whatever it was that struck the earth," said Stern, "ood and plenty The whole planet seems to be ripped up and broken and shattered No wonder it knocked do York and killed everybody and put an end to civilization Why, there's ten cubic ular Panaer, all scooped out in one piece! What the devil could have happened?"

There was no answer to the question After an hour spent in studying the for the lip of the cleft they made a detour eastward to the shore, crossed the fjord that ran into the canyon, and again kept to the north Soon after this they struck a railroad embankment, and this they followed now, both because it afforded easier travel than the shore, which now had grown rocky and broken, and also because it proht

It was on the sixth day of their exploration that they at last penetrated the ruins of Providence Here, as in New York, paverassed over and covered with pines and el the stones and shattered brickwork that lay prone upon the earth Only here or there a steel or concrete building still defied the ravages of tie is even ed as he and the girl stood in front of the ruins of the post-office surveying the debris "The smaller area, of course, would naturally be covered sooner with the inroads of the forest I doubt whether there's enough left in the whole place to be of any real service to us"

"To-irl "It's too late now for any ht in an upper story of the Pequot National Bank Building on Ha cleared out the bats and spiders, theyand soundly Dawn found therown ruins, much as--three months before--they had labored in the Metropolitan Tower and about it Less, however, rehter types of buildings had preserved far less of the relics of civilization than had been left in the vast and solid structures of New York

In a few places, none the less, they still caray ash that marked where men and women had fallen and died; but these occurred only in the most sheltered spots Stern paid no attention to theies and his attention were now fixed on the one task of getting skins, arhtfall, by a syste of such shops as remained--perhaps not above a score in all could even be entered--the girl and he had gathered h to last them on their way to Boston One find which pleased hilass jars of tobacco