Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1902-04-30

that could be brought against it. The
majesty of the most high gods was vim
dicated, and that splendid. empress
knew it and lay back sulleniy among
the cushions of her litter a beaten
woman.
Only one person in that rigid knot
of people found power to leave the rest,
and that was Ylga. She came out~to
the side of the ark, and leaned up and
cried me a farewell through the gath
ering roar of the food.
II would might save you and take
you with us" said.
GAS for that" she said, with a GEES
ture, II would not come if you asked
me. I am not woman that will take
anything less than all. But I shall
meet what comes presently with the
memory that you will have me always
somewhere in your recollection. I
know somewhat of men, even men of
your stamp, Deucalion, and you will
never forget that you came very near
to loving me once"
think, too, she said something fur
Their, concerning Nais, but the below
ing rush of the waters drowned all
other words. A great mist made from
the steam sent up by the swamped
burning mountains stopped all accur-
ate view, though the blaze from the
fires lit it like gold. But I had a last
sight of horde of soldiery rushing
up the slopes of the mountain, with
scum of surge billowing at their
heels and licking many of them back in
it's clutch. And then my eye fell on old
Zaemon waving to me with the symbol
to shut down the door in the roof of
the ark.
Iobeyed his last command, and went
down the stair and closed all ingress
behind me. There were bolts placed
ready, and shot these into their sock
cts, and there were Neis and I alone,
and cut off from all the rest of our
world that remained.
1 went to the place where she lay,
and put my arms tightly around her.
Without, we heard men beating des-
perately on the ark with their weap-
ons, and some who even climbed by the
battens to the top and wrenched to
try and move the door from it's fasten-
ings. The end was coming very near
to them now, and the great crowd of
them were mad with terror.
l would have given much to have
known how Phorenice Jared in that
final tumult, and how she faced it. I
could see her, with her lovely face and
her Wondrous eyes, and her ruddy hair
curling about her neck, and by all the
gods! I thought more of her at that
last moment than of the poor land she
had conquered and misgoverned and
brought to this horrid destruction.
There is no denying the fascination
which Phorenice carried with her.
But the end did not daily long with
it's coming. There was little surge
that lifted the ark hands breadth or
so in it's cradle, and set it back again
with a jar and culver. The blows
from axes and weapons ceased on it's
lower part, but redoubled into renzied
were some screams and cries also
which came to us but duly through
the thickness of it's ponderous sheath
ing, though likely enough they were
sent forth at the full pitch of human
lungs outside. And then another surge
came, roaring and laundering, which
picked up the great vessel as though
it had been feather, and spun it gid
Oily; and after that we touched earth
or rock no more.
We tossed about on the crest and
troughs of de]irious seas, sport for
the greedy gods of the ocean. The
lamp had fallen, and we crouched there
in darkness, duly weighed with the