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Suddenly he heard the girl's voice calling to hih the mist!"

He wrenched his head a trifle up and now perceived that through the vapors a di to shine, and on each side of it there stretched a line of other, shts These, haloed by the vapor with the ular row high above water level

Lower down other lights werefor the most part at a point tohich the boats were headed

"A settlement, Beatrice! A town, maybe! At last--men, men!" he cried

Forward the boats moved, faster now, as the rowers bent to their tasks; and all at once, spontaneously, a song rose up First froe h the dark air It blended into a spectral chorus, a vague, treh on the black stream of Acheron the lost souls of a better world had joined in song

Nothing could Stern catch of the words; but like so of a half-heard uely reminiscent undertone struck to his heart with an irresistible, melancholy, penetrant appeal

"That tune! I know it--if I could only think!" the engineer exclaimed "Those words! I almost seem to know them!"

Then, with the suddenness characteristic of all that drew near in the fog, the shore-lights grew rapidly bigger and ht

The rowers lay back on their paddles at a sharp word of corating, a sliding of keels on pebbles The boat stopped Others ca died A sound of led with those who, bearing torches, now began gathering about the two canoes where Stern and Beatrice still were

"Well, we're here, anyhoherever here is!" exclaiineer "Hey, you fellows, let me loose, will you? What kind of a way is this to treat a stranger, I'd like to know?"

Two of the h the water, tepid as new milk, to where Stern lay fast-bound, lifted hih the water was, Stern saw that it was clear As the torch-light struck down through it, he could distinguish the clean and sandy botto sound pervaded all the air, now sinking to a dull roar, now rising shrill as a vast jet of escaping steam