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And as this realization, not yet very clear, but seeineer, a sudden interest in the problenant in its appeal to his scientific sense, that for a moment it quite banished his distress and his desire for escape with Beatrice

"Why, girl," he cried, "here's a case parallel, in real life, to the wildest ih a couple of ancient Roiven his life to studying priine he was the only man in the world who rerasp it? No wonder he's overcoht," he added in a swift aside, "this will be good for a return ticket, all right!"

The old rasp of Beatrice and folded both arnity

"I rejoice that I have lived to this tih each word, each distorted and ht with difficulty "I alad that I have lived to touch you and to hear your voices To know it is no mere tradition, but that, verily, there was such a race and such a language! The rest also, ! Oh, this is a wonder and a reat peace, and they will know I have spoken truth to their !"

He kept silence a space, and the two captives looked fixedly at hiely moved On his withered cheeks they could see, by the dull bluish glow through the doorway, tears still wet The long and venerable beard of spotless white trembled as it fell freely over the coarse mantle

"What a subject for a painter--if there were any painters left!" thought Stern

The old ain

"Now I can go in peace to my appointed place in the Great Vortex," said he, and bowed his head, and whispered so in that other speech they had already heard but could not understand

Stern spoke first

"What shall we call your naaav," he answered, pronouncing a name which neither of them could correctly iave both the girl's and his own The old h with a very different accent

"Now, see here, father," the engineer resus to talk about A million ant to ask, and that we can tell you! But we're very tired We're hungry Thirsty Understand? We've just been through a terrible experience You can't grasp it yet; but I'll tell you we've fallen, God kno far, in an aeroplane--"