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She slept And for a few blessed hours she had respite frorew troubled She seeht in a thunder-stor bolts, the roaring shock of the reverberation, then the crash of shattered buildings

A sudden shock awoke her She thought a falling block of stone had struck her ar her in terror

"Oh, Yulcia, noa!" the nurse was crying in terror "Up! Waken! The cliff falls! Awake, awake!"

Beatrice sat up in bed, conscious through all the daze of dreams quick broken, that some calamity--some vast and unknown peril--had smitten the colony at Settlement Cliffs