strides he was down the steps and in the passage, and in a score he was out upon
the balcony upon which the three men had been standing.
CHAPTER V. — THE MOVING WAYS
He went to the railings of the balcony and stared upward. An exclamation of
surprise at his appearance, and the movements of a number of people came from
the great area below.
His first impression was of overwhelming architecture. The place into which
he looked was an aisle of Titanic buildings, curving spaciously in either direction. Overhead mighty cantilevers sprang together across the huge width of
the place, and a tracery of translucent material shut out the sky. Gigantic globes of cool white light shamed the pale sunbeams that filtered down through the girders and wires. Here and there a gossamer suspension bridg
