Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-03-27
THE AFTERCLOW
A Sequel TO "Beyond the Great o,,,,..,
BY GEORGE ALLAN ENCIANn

| ono, me @ 'ne United States has bep,A N
| zoe SON @ pelore the magic touch of man,
| s,oyor,., ,'a,,-now free at last! No moro
| inc - NO more the lash of hunger driv
| ana n 10 their tasks. No more greed
| of cr,,shI. no lust Of gold no bitter cry
ing and selling for the hre ~ nroe, ~.
~ eeulatihg In the peoples means Of life,
| pu, SeeHng or their blood for wealth,
~ Iree' strong labor gladly done The
pg ahng OF useful and beautiful hinge
neo, a,,rice' and their exchange for human
| of o., 'iu serVice-this, and the old dream
Vi Joy In righteous toll. this Is the b,oseing
| vi our world todayr'
| LOOK. cried he and pointed. "T,ools
scea.rice! s.e! The West Coast Mail-the nlnne
, ,lp,n southern California The wireless
'oiu US IL had started only three hours ago
ana mere 1t Is already 20
| -, h"o put Tor you!" she murmured "none
oh Ans .S could ever possibly have been
IN Aiian, remember that songy In tbo
Gays OF our first love. there on the Hudson
J ie'"efhper how sang to you:
stark ptc der Feis,
Tief tUie dds Nicer
W uitSs deine Licbc,
hdSS detne Licbe seiny,
remember! And It has been so?"
answer was to draw his hand up to
ntr Ups and print kiss there. and as sba
ieiu iier cheek upon il he felt II wet with
tears ''' - "et WIN
And night came; and now the wind lay
uead; and upon the brooding earth sran-
gied with home-ights over hin ana raIo
inc stars gazed calmly down
seems ike lullaby--doesnt It dear.
eS'' murmured Allan. You knov---it
wort be long now before it's good-by and
good night" CIV"
i know" she answered "we've lived
haven't
ever IN all this world-lived as much as
you and have lived Think of it all from
li'e beginning till now. No one ever so
hlucn' so richly so happily so WE'LL.
No one, darling!
But after toll, rest--rcst 10 syoo+ too
snail be ready for it when it summons
me; l snail go to it, content and brave
"Yes?"
only this pray, Just this and nothing
more-that maynt have to stay awake
alone, after-after you're sleeping. Allanr
long time they sat together. silent. in
the sweet-scented gloom within the flower.
girt orbor.
AT last he spoke.
Inc wonder and the glory of it all"' he
whispered "Oh, the wonder of a drnan,
a vision come to pass, before our oves'
For see! Has not the prophecy come
true! what was then only yearning and
nope Is 1t not now reality? Is it not
now all even as we dreamed so very. very
long ago. there IN our little bungalow he
side the broad, slow-movlng Hudson?
rs this not true?"
1 see world where thrones have crum-
bled and where kings arc dust. The aris-
tocracy or idleness has perished from the
earth. VIZ
4 sec a world without n slave. Man at
last Is free. Natures forces have bv science
neen enslaved. Lightning and light. wind
ana wave. frost and flame. and all the
secret, subtle powers of earth and air are
the tlreless toilers for the human race,
1 see world at peace, adorned with
every form of art, with music's mvriad
voices thrilled, while lips are rich with
words of love and truth--a world in which
no exile sighs, no prisoner mourns a world
on which the gbbet's shadow does not fall !.
a world where labor reaps its full reward
where work and worth go hand in hand!
Il see world without the beggar's OUT
stretched palm. the misers heartless STONY
stare, the piteous wall of want, the livid
lips of lies, the cruel eyes of scorn.
Il see race without disease of flesh or
brain, shapely and fair, the married har-
mony of form and function; and as 7 looI,
life lengthens joy deepens love canopies
the earth-and over ALL in the great dome
shines the eternal star OF human hone 80
THE END.
The third installment Of "PeIlucidur - the peu,
continued story. by Edgar Rice burroughs will
be found on Page III of this issue.