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The party counted on being able to supplement their supplies with trout, bass and pickerel froht, too, come into wooded country, if the fire had left any to northward, and here they knew ga seemed positive in that neorld: starvation could not threaten

Cloudy and dull thewas--yet well-suited to the needs of the Folk--when the expedition left Settleuards and his hands and face well painted with protecting pigment, waited impatiently in the palisade, while Allan said farewell to Beta and the little chap

For a long moment he strained them both to his breast, then, the woman's kiss still hot upon his lips, ran quickly up the path and joined his picked troop of scouts

"Forward, a over the long, shaking bridge

Through her tears she watched the the baby shake its little hand as well--and throwing kisses to hiaily

On the far bank the party halted a minute to shout a few last words to the assembled colonists that lined the parapet of the terrace

Then they turned, and, striking northwest, plunged boldly into the burned and blackened waste

Long after thecolumn had disappeared over the crest of the second hill Beatrice still watched Up on the cliff-top, with the powerful telescope at her eye, she followed the faint, drifting line of dust and ash that marked the line of ed in the soray of the horizon, did she sadly and very slowly descend the path once more, back to the loneliness of a hoh she tried to slancing up fro in her beautiful gray eyes

Barbarian though the ancient beldame was, she knew, she understood that after all, now as for all time, in every venture and in every task, the woman's portion was the harder one