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A vague uneasiness began to oppress him The fire, he reckoned, should have shown ere now in the far distance Without it, how find his way? And what of Beatrice?

His uneasy reflections were suddenly interrupted by a word froht

"O Kromno, master, see?"

"What is it, now?"

"A fire, very distant,with joy "I see no fire Your eyes, used to the dark places and the fogs, now far surpass ht shall coaure in the star-lit gloom "There, master On thy left hand, thus"

Stern shifted his course to southwest by west, and for some minutes held it true, so that the needle hardly trembled on the compass dial

Then all at once he, too, saw the welcoe of the world, no different fro just above it on the horizon, save for its redness

A gush of gratitude and love welled in the fountains of his heart

"Home!" he whispered "Home--for where you are that's ho horeater swiftness, the signal star crept nearer; and now even the flaht of the rock-wall

On and on, a very vulture of the upper air, planed the Pauillac Stern shouted with all his strength The girl ht conal--and the nearness of her presence ht on the canyon, as they swept above it He flung the pencil of radiance in a wide sweep up the cliff and down along the terrace

It gave no sight, no sign of Beatrice

"Sleeping, of course," he reflected

And now, Hope River past, and the canyon sed by the dense forest, he flung his light once more ahead With it he felt out the rocky barrens for a landing-place

Not ah the thick-laced wood and jungle

Awed, terrified by their first sight of trees and by the upper world which to theer, the two Merucaans followed close behind their guide Even so would you or I cling to the Martian who should land us on that ruddy planet and pilot us through sos to us perfectly uniinable