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Morgana looked up froid form Her eyes were heavy with unshed tears

"I think not,"--she said--"There is life in theh for the tiave him the loveliest smile of tenderness--"You brave Giulio!--you are exhausted and wet through--attend to yourself first--then you can help me with these unhappy ones--and you Gaspard,--Gaspard!"

"Here, Madama!"

"You have done so well!" she said--"Without fear or failure!"

"Only by God's mercy!" answered Gaspard--"If the rope had broken; if the ship had lost balance--"

She smiled

"So many 'ifs' Gaspard? Have I not told you it CANNOT lose balance? And are not my words proved true? Noe have finished our rescue e o--we can start at once--"

He looked at her

"There is ly, "If we are to carry two dead bodies through the air, it le' has not been tested for heavy transport"

She heard him patiently,--then turned to Rivardi and repeated her words-"We can start at once Steer upwards and onwards"

Like a man hypnotised he obeyed,--and in a few htly as a bubble fro showers of spray tossed by the foaher, as swiftly as any living bird born for long and powerful flight Night was falling; and through the dense purple shadows of the Californian sky a big white host-like over the scene of destruction and chaos, lighting with a pale glare the tired and haggard faces of the reliefand the dead froulfed,--while far, far above theh distance till it looked no bigger than a dove on its ho by a row of lifeless men, women and children killed in the earthquake, chanted the "Nunc Di them who had first seen the air-ship over the canon, where it fell, as it were in the deep gulf surrounded by flood and foam, now raised his eyes in wonder at liberty towards the moon