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The piazza was littered at its farthest end with serviceable, hos; but Allan, Junior, had no use for the and running with a troop of other children--many, many children, indeed

As Beatrice and Allan watched the play they sh the man's arm crept the woman's hand, and with the confidence of perfect trust she leaned her head against his shoulder

"Whoever could have thought," said he at last, "that all this really could come true? In those dark hours when the Horde had all but sed us, e fell into the Abyss, when those terrible adventures racked our souls down beside the Sunken Sea, and later, here, when everything seemed lost--who could have foreseen this?"

"You could and did!" she answered "Fro, Allan It was all foreseen and nothing ever stopped you, just as the future beyond this time is all foreseen by you and must and shall be as you plan it!"

"Shall be, with your help!" he ether they watched the holiday crowd gradually congregating in the vast plaza where once the palisade had been Now the old wooden stockade had long vanished Cleared land and farhts, where the Pauillac had first come to earth at New Hope

Well-kept roads connected them all with the settlement And for some miles to southward the pri hand of this neiftly growing race

"With et, dear, hoonderfully they've taken hold, how they've labored, developed and grown in every way You'd be surprised--really you would--if you came in contact with them as I do in the schools, to see thealike It's a miracle, that's all!"

"No, not exactly," he explained "It's atavism These people of ours were really civilized in essence, despite all the overlying ages of barbarism Civilization was latent in them, that's all Just as all the children born here under norrown-ups have thrown back to civilization Two or three years at the outside have put back the coloring matter in every newcomer's iris and epidermis Just so--"

A sudden and quickly-growing tu, broad street interrupted hi of necks, a drift toward the north side of the square, the river side

The shouts and cheers increased and cries of "They co air