Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-03-27
CHAPTER xxXv (ContipuedD

an ARBOR, powered with wistarias and
n the waxen spikes of the new fleur de
q. stood near the woodbine.covered wall
Sg,ne the cliff. Among its leaves the soft
- rustled very lovingly. A scent of many
s,ossoms hung over the perfumed evening
Iypon the lawn one last, belated robin
.,ul fingered. Its mate called from a
svcamore beyond the hedge, and with an
snswering note 1t rose and winged away
n vanished from the sight.
Allan and Beatrice, watching It from the
s,hor. smiled; and through the smile 1t
sssmed there might be still n trace of
deeper thought.
"sHow quickly it obeyed the call of love 20
aid Allan musingly. when that comes
~hat matters else?"
She nodded.
"Yes" she answered presently. THAT
s.,l is still supreme. our Frances"
She paused but her eyes sought the
haf-glimpsed outlines of another cottage
there beyond the hedge.
1--WE never realized, did we?" said Allan,
voicing her thought. ut came so suddenly.
But we haven't lost her, after all. And
there are still others, too. And when grand
children come
''That means a kind of youth all over
again. doesn't It? we'll"
Her hand stole into his, and for n while
they sat in silence, thinking the thoughts
that 'do sometime lie too deep for tears"
The flaming red in the west had faded
now to orange and duh umber. Higher in
the sky yellows and greens gave place to
blue as deep as thac in the Aegean grottos.
The zenith dark purple, began to show
silver twinkle here and t1ere of stars.
A whirring, roaring sound grew audible
: TO eastward. 1t strengthened quickly And
all at once, far above the river, a long,
swift train, it's windows already lighted
sped with smooth rapid flight.
Allan watched the mOnorail vanish be
yond the huge north tower of the cable
bridge, sink through the trees, and finally
fade into the gathering gloom.
"The Great Lakes Express" said he "In
the old days we thought seventy miles an
hour something stupendous. Now Two
hundred is mere ordinary schedule time
Yes-something has been accomplished even
now. The greater time still to be-we
can't hope to see it.
But we can catch a glimpse of what
shall be, here and there. We must be
content to have built foundations
ION them those who shall come in the
future shall raise fairer and a mightier
world than any we have ever dreamed"
Suddenly the man spoke again.
More than hundred thousand of us
already he exulted. over a tenth of a
million--and every year the growth Is
faster. ever faster in swift progressions. A
hundred thousand English-speaking people,
Beta civilization already, even in
material sense, superior to the old one
that was swept away; in a spiritual, moral
sense, how vastly far ahead!
"A hundred thousand. Some time. be-
fore long, it will be million; then two
hve. twenty, a hundred with no racial dis.
cords, no mutual antipathies. no barriers Of
name or blood but for the first time a
universal race all sound and pure starting
right, living right. striving toward a goal
which even we cannot foresee!
"Not only shall this land be filled, but
Europe, Asia, Africa and all the islands of
the Seven Seas shall know the hand of
man again, and own his sovereignty, from
pole to pole!
His clasp about Beatrice frightened she
felt his heart beat strong with deep emo
ton as he spoke again.
ALREADY the cities are beginning to rise
nom their ashes of thousand obliyious
years. Already score Of thriving colonies
have scattered from the capital, all vet
bound to it with monorail cables, electric
wires and with the ether.borne magic of
the wireless.
Already our boy our son-can YOU
imagine him really a man Of thirty, darling?
elected President on our last Council Day
6uides free people-a people self-reliant
and strong. energetic, capable dominant.
Already the inconceivable fertility of
the earth Is yielding its bounties a hundred
fold and trade routes circle the ends of
the great Abyss; and all the vast terri