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Practical matters now for a time thrust introspection, drea was already half spent, and in spite of sorrow, hunger had begun to assert itself; for since tiorous and healthy humans had ever set foot on earth as Beatrice and Allan

The athered brush and dry-kye and proceeded to ht of the patriarch's grave He fetched a generous heap of wood fro its smoke-banner down the breeze

Soon after Beatrice had raided the supplies on board the Pauillac--fish, edible seaweed, and the eggs of the strange birds of the Abyss--and with the skill and speed of long experience was getting an excellentnear by And the two ate in silence, cross-legged on the warm, dry sand

"What first, now?" queried theof about fifteen hundred separate things to tackle, each one oing to begin again? That's the question!"

She drew froolden cylinder and chain

"Before we ht to see what's in this record--if it is a record Don't you?"

"By Jove, you're right! Shall I open it for you?"

But already the massively chased top lay unscrewed in her hand Within the cylinder a parchment roll appeared

Acare not to tear the ancient, crackling skin whereon faint lines of writing showed

Stern bent forward, eager and breathless The girl, too, gazed with anxious eyes at the diht, Allan," said she "This is some kind of record, some direction as to the final history of the few survivors after the great catastrophe Oh! Look, Allan--it's fading already in the sunlight Quick, read it quick, or we shall lose it all!"

Only too true The dim lines, perhaps fifteen hundred years old, certainly never exposed to sunlight sinceweaker; and the parches, where her fingers held it, already were breaking away into a fine, iether they read the clurasp theere it were too late

TO ANY WHO AT ANY TIME MAY EVER REVISIT THE UPPER WORLD: Be it known that two records have been left covering our history from the time of the cataclysm in 1920 till we entered the Chase, Colorado, near the ruins of Dexter Exact location, 106 degrees, 11 rees, 22 minutes, 6 seconds north Record is in left, or northern branch of Cave, 327 yards from mouth, on south wall, 4 feet 6 inches from floor The other-"Where? Where?" cried Beatrice A portion of the record was gone; it had crumbled even as they read