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Up-current a broader pool gave pro It overflowed into violent rapids, with swift, white waters noisily cascading

"There, incidentally," Stern reineer, "there's power enough, when properly harnessed, to light a city and to turn machinery ad libitum I don't see hoe could better this site, do you?"

"Not if you think there are good chances for cave-dwellings," she made answer

"Fro Of course, there'll be a deal of work to do; but there are excellent possibilities here First rate"

Fortune see them The limestone cliff, fantastically eroded, offered a score of shelters, so to be walled up in front, others deep and tortuous All was in utter confusion

Stern saw that the terraces would have to be blasted and leveled, roads and stairs built along the face of the rock and down to the river, stalactites and stalagmites cut away, chah framework of a cliff colony undeniably existed here He doubted whether it would be possible to find a uess we'll take the apartn the lease," he decided toward noon, after they had clambered, pried, explored with irottoes "Theto consider is that we can find darkness and humidity for the Folk by day They ht It ht But that, too, will coirl--patience and time--and all will yet be done"

Yet, even as he spoke, a strange anxiety, a prescience of tremendous difficulties, brooded in his soul These were not cattle that he had to deal with, but men

Could he and Beatrice, rulers of the Folk though they noere, could they--with their paltry knowledge of the people's language, superstitions, prejudices and inner life--really bring about this great ration?

Could they ravish a nation from its accustomed home, transplant it bodily, force new conditions on it, train, teach, civilize it? All this without rebellion, anarchy and failure?

"God!" thought the engineer "The labors of Hercules were child's play beside this probleht of all that lay ahead; yet through everything, deep in the basic strata of his being, he knew that all should be and ly impossible should come to pass

"I swear it!" he murmured to himself "For her sake, for theirs, and for the world's, I swear it shall be!"