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Stern blessed fate for this If any such had existed, he knew huh to feel certain that, there in the eternal glooiven itself over to excesses and have miserably perished

"To my mind," he said to Beatrice, one time, "the survival of our race under such conditions is one of the s possibly to be conceived" Out toward the black and estured froine!" he continued "No sunlight--for centuries! Without that, nothing containing chlorophyl can grow; and science has always maintained that human life reen plants containing it No grains, no soil, or agriculture, no mammals even! Why, the very Eskimo have to depend on mammals for their life!

"But these people here, and the Lanskaarn, and whatever other unknown tribes live in this vast Abyss, have to get their entire living from this tepid sea They don't even possess wood to ith! If this doesn't prove the hue and adaptability, what does?"

She stood a while in thought, plainlyhis analysis At last she spoke

"Allan!" she suddenly exclaimed

"Well?"

"It's still out there somewhere, isn't it? Out there, in those black, unsounded depths--the biplane?"

"You ain, and--"

"Of course! You know I mean to try as soon as I have these people under soet them to understand!"

"Not till then? No escape till then? But, Allan, it erness

Puzzled, he turned and peered at her in the bluish gloom

"Escape?" he queried "Too late? Why, what do you mean? Escape from what? You mean that we should leave these people, here, before we've even begun to teach them? Before we've discovered so that eneration of the human race, the world? Why--"

A touch upon his arm interrupted hi at his side Silent and di, he had coe, inscrutable s-bearded lips

"What keepspast the sleeping-hour? Verily, this should not be! Come," he commanded "Come away! To-morroill be time for speech"