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"It is well!" he cried "Oneye two for the journey, two of your boldest and best And that shall be the first journey of many, up to the better places that await ye, far beyond the pit!"

Straining his eyes in the night, pierced only by the electric beam that ran and quavered rapidly over the broken forest-tops far below, Allan peered down and far ahead The fire, the signal-fire he had told Beatrice to build upon the ledge--would he never sight it?

Eagerly he scanned the dark horizon only just visible in the star-shine Warht wind fanned his cheek; the roar of the htily, ain! Beatrice, and love oncehours had passed since, his fuel-tanks replenished fro the crude naphtha, which he had installed during his first stay in the Abyss, he had risen a second time into that heavy, humid, purple-vapored air

With hiae-crate aft lay a large seine, certain supplies of fish, weed and eggs, and--fro--soe sea-birds, in athese ied conditions, a precaution Stern had recognized as eht he, as the Pauillac swept its long, flat-arc'd trajectory through the night, "under any circumstances this must be a terrific wrench for theot it, who has? This trip of these subterranean barbarians, thus flung suddenly into , must be exactly what a journey to Mars would mean to me More, far e in taking such a tremendous step"

And in his heart a new and keener admiration for the basic stamina of the Merucaans took root

"They'll do!" he hted chart once s from the dials of his delicately adjusted instruht and he deemed New Hope River could not now be far

"No use to try and hear it, though, with this racket of the propellers in ht possibly pick up a gleam of water, if we fly over it But even that's a suide--and where is it, now, that fire?"