oh-h!" Pem shivered upon the thought
"But we'll all be on the lookout to prevent
that, as many of us as are there--and that
won't be more than a picked few, Dad says
to witness this first experiment.... When
--when the real Thunder Bird flies, though
--"she turned those patchwork eyes now,
sky-blue, flame-red, upon her companions
--"you'll all--all-11 be there. And, oh!
won't it--won't it be a sight to watch--it
--tear?"

Drooping towards the fire-glow, lips
parted in entranced assurance, the slight
figure became lost in the same dream which
had held it months before in a February
Pullman, while a daring flame, like a red-capped
pearl diver, plunging into the mystery
of that fairy thing, that gleaming
stole about her neck brought out milky
flashes of luster--together with those New
Jerusalem tints, jade and gold and ruby.

Finished now it was, the pearl-woven
prophecy--fair record to go down to
posterity!

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