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"I haven't the equipment yet," he interrupted; "nor yet the necessary s All that will coet some mines to work and start a few blast-furnaces But for the present, the best and quickest thing to do will be to look up the old ht of losing hiht you said the Horde wrecked it!"

"So they did; but beasts like that probably couldn't destroy the vital mechanism beyond possibility of repair That is, not unless they heaped a lot of wood all over it, and heated it white-hot, which I don't think they had intelligence enough to do In any event, what's left will serve me as a model, for another machine I really think I'll have to have a try for it"

"Oh, Allan! You aren't going to venture out into the wilderness again?"

"Why not, dearest? You must remember the forest is all burned now; perhaps for hundreds of ed us ever since those days in the tower, has been swept out with the besom of flame!"

"Which has also surely destroyed theevery possible argued "You see, I left it in a wide sand-barren I think, on the whole, it will pay me to make the expedition Of course I shan't take less than a dozenit back--what's left of it"

"But Allan, can you find your way?"

"I've got to! That machine must positively be recovered! Othere're totally cut off fro stops, and all kinds of hell round before I can build anothernow to the brink," he added s; "and no elevators to the base!"

The girl exhausted all her arguments and entreaties in vain Once Allan'sthe line of duty, he went straight forward, though the heavens fell

Four days later the expedition set out

Allan hadand well-arht and chart-drawing he was able to approximate the probable position of the ao, and ably seconded by Frumuos

Each man carried an autoe of one hundred cartridges apiece, and in knapsacks of goat-leather, dried rations for a week Each also carried fish hooks and a stout fiber line