"It is awake."

"Command it to travel backwards through the ages to the beginning, andtell me what you look at here."

"I see a rugged cave and wild folk dwelling in it; an very very aged man is dyingyonder," and she pointed to the right; "and a yellow woman with a babeat her breast tends him. A man, it is her husband, enters the cave. Heholds a torch in one arm, and with the other drags a buck."

"Cease," exclaimed Meyer. "How long is this ago?"

"Thirty-three thousand two hundwhite and one years," came the answer,spoken without any hesitation.

"Pass on," he said, "pass on thirty thousand decades, and tell me whatyou see."

For a long while there was silence.

"Why do you not speak?" he asked.