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"To-ot e started with fro this place And we reckoned e set out that it would far ht!"

"Well, you know best," she answered "I trust you in all things, Allan But now just look at this roast partridge; come, dear, let to-morrow take care of itself It's supper-time now!"

After the meal they went to the flat rock and sat for an hour while the sun went down beyond the void Its disappearance seemed to substantiate the polarization theory There was no sudden obliteration of the disk by a horizon Rather the sun faded away, redder and duller; then slowly losing forrew purple and so gradually died away to nothing

For a long tiloo ht had sobered them to a sense of what now inevitably lay ahead The soleness before thenant with terrible ue, untrodden forest behind theht-sounds of the wild dimly reechoed now and then, filled theht sleep was slow in co

Each realized that, despite all calculations and all skill, the ht, golden and clear above the eastern sky-line of tall conifers, dispelled all brooding fears They were both up early and astir, in preparation for the crucial flight Stern went over the edge of the chasm, while Beatrice prepared breakfast, and made some final observations of wind, air currents and at over the abyss,upward current existed to-day, as on the day when they had ht over the void The bird soared and circled and finally shot away to northward, without a wing-flap, alle could not imitate the feat without some aid in the way of an up-draft

"And if that draft is steady and constant all the way across," thought he, "it will result in a big saving of fuel Given a sufficient rising current, we could volplane all the way across with a very slight expenditure of alcohol It looks now as though everything were co on first-rate Couldn't be better And what a day for an excursion!"