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Fate meant that they should live, those two lone wanderers on the face of the great desolation; and, though night had gathered now and all was cloaked in gloom, they landed with no worse than a hard shake-up on a level strip of beach that edged the confines of the unknown lake

Exhausted by the strain and the long fight with death, chilled by that sojourn in the upper air, drenched and stiffened and half dead, they had no strength tothe the water fresh, not salt--drink deeply from hollowed palms Then, too worn-out even to eat, they crawled under the shelter of the biplane's a and drea found the breakfast over a cheery fire on the beach near the machine Save for here and there a tree that had blon in the forest, some dead branches scattered on the sands, and a feashed-out places where the torrent of yesterday's rain had gullied the earth, nature once more seemed fair and calm

The full force of the terrific wind-storm had probably passed to northward; this land where they now found theht be--had doubtless borne only a sh the sky gleairl knew the hurricane had been no ordinary teed the engineer, as he finished hispipe "And God knohere it's driven us to! So far as judging distances goes, in a hurricane like that it's iain, it ion so, Athabasca, or Great Slave With the kind of stor irl assured him, "except that we're alive and unhurt; and the machine can still travel, for--"

"Travel!" cried Stern "With about a quart of fuel or less! How far, I'd like to know?"

"That's so; I never thought of that!" the girl replied, dished

"Hunt for a town, of course," he reassured her "There, there, don't worry! If we find alcohol, we're all right, anyhow If not, we're better off than ere after the ot us, at any rate Then we had no arms, aot theirl Don't worry--everything will coht in the end"