METROPOLIS "Did he hear?" «Dear God, how cold the water is... .n
"Saint Peter-I Saint Peter-II" "Sister. ... I think he answered, just now... ,-
"Really, little brother?" "Yes ... somebody was calling. , , ," "Yes. I heard it. too'" " So did I. .. :' " So did I , . ," "Hush. children. hush... ,"'Oh, sister. sister-I» «Hush. please-please-I"
" Maria-J·· "Freder-Ill" "Maria-are you there-r' "Freder-F.reder-here I ami Here I am, "On the stairs?"
Freder-II~
"Yesl"
"Why don't you come up?" "I can't raise the door!" "'Ten trains have run together. . . . I can't come' to youl I
must go and get help)" "Oh. Freder, the water's already close behind us," "The water-?" "Yesl-And the walls are falling in'" "Are you burt-?" "No, no.... Ob, Freder, if you could only force open the door wide enough for me to push the little children's bodIes
through.. , ," The
mAD
above her did not give her an answer.
When steeling his muscles and sinews in the "Club of the Sons," playfully wrestling with his friends, he surely never guessed that he would need them one day to force a path through ruined cables. upright pistons and out-spread wheels of fallen machines to the woman be loved. He thrust the pistons aside like human anns, clutched into steel as into soft, yielding flesh. He worked his way nearer the door and threw birnseU on the ground. "Maria-P"
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