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Darkness and Dawn

Chapter 2 REALIZATION

Word Count: 1277    |    Released on: 06/12/2017

way to poignant wonder as she

s clinging rags, even behind the mask of a long, red, dusty beard and formidable

e employer--keen and smooth-shaven, alert, well-dressed, self-centered, dominant, the ma

sound of the girl's voice, he staggered toward her with o

et to correlate his thought

b ten times, Beatrice saw terror

atrice watched him, breathlessly, from the door, she saw his

ible were limning the man's soul upon

nd woman stood looking at each other like two children in some d

him. Forgetful of every convention and of her disarray, she seiz

at does all thi

m she

uth--and save m

ringly. He smiled a stran

hen his lips moved, but fo

effort, this t

st and dryness of the innumerable years had got i

een asleep. What? What is it? I don't know yet. I'll fin

pointed at the hi

. That's two of us, anyhow. Maybe there are a lot m

oth that once had been a business suit, he waded throug

d, you have some notion of his outward guise. No tramp you ever

ed beard reached far below his waist. Even his eyebrows, natur

silient force of vigorous manhood, you might have thought him some incredibly a

earance. With one quick gesture he swept away the shrouding tangle of

cried he, and st

an to

she breathle

ng big! Something universal! It's--it's--no,

everything.

, staring out into the clear sunshine,

test of an imprisoned fly in a web at the top of the window

cried Beatric

lding his emotions in control. "Why not be frank about this? You'd better make

rst? Yo

e out there. You can in

d find no voicing in words. Instinctively the engineer passe

ished dictating those Taunton Bridge specifications. I suddenly felt--oh, so sl

hi

no

ck us? Us and everybody--and everything? Talk about

l once more to studying th

nce upon a time been Long Island City and Brooklyn, as familiar a scene in the ot

ord. "No hallucination about that." He swept the sky-line with his eyes, that now peered keenly out from

got a full yard of whiskers. My good Lo

led horribly on the girl's tense nerves. Suddenly he grew serious. For

t out for me, all right. But--you can't go that way, Miss Kendrick. It--it won'

t, but at the merest touch it tore to shr

otects me very well for the present. If you and I are all that'

her. Then he nodded,

hand on her shoulder. Once more he

to himself. "Only a skyscraper standing here or th

owing thick among the ruins? A dead world if--if all the

mport of the catastrophe. And Stern, deep down in his heart

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1 Chapter 1 THE AWAKENING2 Chapter 2 REALIZATION3 Chapter 3 ON THE TOWER PLATFORM4 Chapter 4 THE CITY OF DEATH5 Chapter 5 EXPLORATION6 Chapter 6 TREASURE-TROVE7 Chapter 7 THE OUTER WORLD8 Chapter 8 A SIGN OF PERIL9 Chapter 9 HEADWAY AGAINST ODDS10 Chapter 10 TERROR11 Chapter 11 A THOUSAND YEARS!12 Chapter 12 DRAWING TOGETHER13 Chapter 13 THE GREAT EXPERIMENT14 Chapter 14 THE MOVING LIGHTS15 Chapter 15 PORTENTS OF WAR16 Chapter 16 THE GATHERING OF THE HORDES17 Chapter 17 STERN'S RESOLVE18 Chapter 18 THE SUPREME QUESTION19 Chapter 19 THE UNKNOWN RACE20 Chapter 20 THE CURIOSITY OF EVE21 Chapter 21 EVE BECOMES AN AMAZON22 Chapter 22 GODS!23 Chapter 23 THE OBEAH24 Chapter 24 THE FIGHT IN THE FOREST25 Chapter 25 THE GOAL, AND THROUGH IT26 Chapter 26 BEATRICE DARES27 Chapter 27 TO WORK!28 Chapter 28 THE PULVERITE29 Chapter 29 THE BATTLE ON THE STAIRS30 Chapter 30 BEGINNINGS31 Chapter 31 SETTLING DOWN32 Chapter 32 THE MASKALONGE33 Chapter 33 THE GOLDEN AGE34 Chapter 34 DEADLY PERIL35 Chapter 35 TRAPPED!36 Chapter 36 A NIGHT OF TOIL37 Chapter 37 THE REBIRTH OF CIVILIZATION38 Chapter 38 PLANNING THE GREAT MIGRATION39 Chapter 39 TOWARD THE GREAT CATARACT40 Chapter 40 THE PLUNGE!41 Chapter 41 TRAPPED ON THE LEDGE42 Chapter 42 ON THE CREST OF THE MAELSTROM43 Chapter 43 A FRESH START44 Chapter 44 LABOR AND COMRADESHIP45 Chapter 45 FINDING THE BIPLANE46 Chapter 46 ALL ABOARD FOR BOSTON!47 Chapter 47 THE HURRICANE48 Chapter 48 WESTWARD HO!49 Chapter 49 ON THE LIP OF THE CHASM50 Chapter 50 LOST IN THE GREAT ABYSS51 Chapter 51 LIGHTS!52 Chapter 52 THE WHITE BARBARIANS53 Chapter 53 THE LAND OF THE MERUCAANS54 Chapter 54 THE DUNGEON OF THE SKELETONS55 Chapter 55 "YOU SPEAK ENGLISH!"56 Chapter 56 DOOMED!57 Chapter 57 THE BATTLE IN THE DARK58 Chapter 58 SHADOWS OF WAR59 Chapter 59 EXPLORATION No.5960 Chapter 60 ESCAPE 61 Chapter 61 PREPARATIONS62 Chapter 62 THE PATRIARCH'S TALE63 Chapter 63 THE COMING OF KAMROU64 Chapter 64 FACE TO FACE WITH DEATH65 Chapter 65 GAGE OF BATTLE66 Chapter 66 THE FINAL STRUGGLE67 Chapter 67 DEATH, LIFE, AND LOVE68 Chapter 68 EASTWARD HO!69 Chapter 69 CATASTROPHE!70 Chapter 70 "TO-MORROW IS OUR WEDDING-DAY"71 Chapter 71 THE SEARCH FOR THE RECORDS72 Chapter 72 TRAPPED! No.7273 Chapter 73 THE LEADEN CHEST74 Chapter 74 TILL DEATH US DO PART75 Chapter 75 AT SETTLEMENT CLIFFS76 Chapter 76 SEPARATION77 Chapter 77 "HAIL TO THE MASTER!"78 Chapter 78 CHALLENGED!79 Chapter 79 THE RAVISHED NEST80 Chapter 80 ON THE TRAIL OF THE MONSTER81 Chapter 81 IN THE GRIP OF TERROR82 Chapter 82 A RESPITE FROM TOIL83 Chapter 83 THE DISTANT MENACE84 Chapter 84 THE ANNUNCIATION85 Chapter 85 THE MASTER OF HIS RACE86 Chapter 86 DISASTER!87 Chapter 87 ALLAN RETURNS NOT88 Chapter 88 THE TREASON OF H'YEMBA89 Chapter 89 THE RETURN OF THE MASTER90 Chapter 90 THE BOY IS GONE!91 Chapter 91 THE FALL OF H'YEMBA92 Chapter 92 THE COMING OF THE HORDE93 Chapter 93 WAR!94 Chapter 94 THE BESOM OF FLAME95 Chapter 95 ALLAN'S NARRATIVE96 Chapter 96 INTO THE FIRE-SWEPT WILDERNESS97 Chapter 97 A STRANGE APPARITION98 Chapter 98 THE MEETING OF THE BANDS99 Chapter 99 FIVE YEARS LATER100 Chapter 100 HISTORY AND ROSES