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Darkness and Dawn

Chapter 4 THE CITY OF DEATH

Word Count: 1768    |    Released on: 06/12/2017

that this was no fit time to yield to any weakness--now when a thousand things were pressing for acc

a of what has happened. From now on you must know all, share all, with me." An

explored the three sides of the

ation they peered. Now and again they fortif

gn of life to be discerned. Nowhere a thread

d in the sunlight, no tug puffed vehemently with plumy jets of st

y buried in dense forests of conifers and oak, with only here and

grant station remained. Castle William was quite gone. And with a gasp of dismay and

rotruding through the tree-tops, t

ul remains of the docks and piers lay in a mere sodden

was growing rank and green. All the wooden sh

here or yonder, thrusting up from the desolation, like a

e crumbled in upon themselves, or to have fallen outward into the st

thing's so overgrown with trees you can't tell where it

arer lines of green, I suppose, must be the larger streets. See ho

t all, Mother Nature has set up h

them, from very far, rose a wailing c

, after all?" faltered the

lau

. I didn't till I heard it in the Hudson Bay country, last wi

Then--the

e island now. Why shouldn't there be? All

resent. Time enough to consider hunting later. Let's creep aroun

thern part of the platform, making their way as far as

lest the support break beneath them and hurl them d

e there used to be Broadway. Quite a respectable Forest

t shining through? You know them--the Park Row, the Singer, t

sight. Of the Brooklyn Bridge

uttermost desolation, beheld a dragging mass of wreckage that dro

Stern could quite plainly see, without the telescope, that the Williamsburg Bridge had "buckle

ruin!" thought the engineer. "Yet, even in thei

desire to rehabilitate all this wreckage, to set it right, t

wn powerlessness a bitt

to share somethi

u and--and I--are really like Macaulay's lone

rophets and poets? That 'All this mighty heart is lying still,'

shake his head; but fast

the sole survivors of the entire human race? That race for whose

losing chapter in the long, painful, glorious Book o

e truth and weigh it, he knew he must not analyze too closel

t she

ross the sky. Purple and gold and crimson lay

windows and sagging walls, its thousands of gaping vacancies, where wood and stone and brick had cr

ich alone did not repel or mystify these two beleaguered waifs, these chan

sunset over a world devoid of human life, for the

asses that marked the one-time course of Twenty-Third Street, the forest in Madison Square, and the

eir breath sounded strangely loud. Above them, on

ce the gi

ng over there!" said she

djusted it, and gazed minutely at th

ndreds of blocks had fallen into Broadway forming a vast

hole roof had caved in, crushing down the upper stories, o

rected at a certain sp

eighteenth floor!" cried she. "There, look?" And she

bling hands the telescope sank.

ny longer--I can't, possibly! The sight of that wr

d the platform to the doorway, then down the crumbling stairs and so

her shoulder, he bade her

eason this thing out together, let's try to solv

can't know yet a while, till I investig

the world. But we can find out--after we've made provision fo

a slate, then why we should have happened to survive whatever it was

s; he looked into her eyes as though to read the very soul of her, to ju

I get the proper data for this series of phe

anything that either of us has ever dreamed. It's not our place, now, to mo

nfidingly. And in the last declining rays of the sun that g

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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