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That did it Thewhorappled, they cried out, and Mark watched them in contempt

Johnson fell back, feeling in his jacket "All right," he said "We ht as well have it over now! Here, you, Smith"

And he shot Sh the chest Smith fell The other men yelled They broke apart Johnson aimed and fired twice more

"Stop!" cried Mark

New York soared up around theh towers The elevated thundered; tugs blew in the harbor The green lady stared across the bay, a torch in her hand

"Look, you fools!" said Mark Central Park broke out constellations of spring blossoms The wind blew fresh-cut lawn smells over them in a wave

And in the center of New York, bewildered, the un three tiainst Johnson, bore hiain

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They stood Saul lay across Johnson They ceased struggling

There was a terrible silence TheNew York sank down into the sea With a hissing, bubbling, sighing; with a cry of ruined reat structures leaned, warped, flowed, collapsed

Mark stood a, a neat red hole drilled into his chest, wordless, he fell

Saul lay staring at the men, at the body

He got up, the gun in his hand

Johnson did not move--was afraid to move

They all shut their eyes and opened theht reanimate the man who lay before them