Angels and Women (1924)

TEBAH AND ITS INMATES 235
destroy the human race. How strange to
think there is not a sound of living beings
in all the world but within the narrow confines
of our Tebah. This universal silence
will never again prevail, a brooding silence
while nature meditates a new beginning.
The old world has ended, the new begun[
What yet undreamed of possibilities are reserved
for our race?
Third Month--Fourth Day.
Arguri. On the slopes of Ararat.
It is seven days since we left the Tebah.
On that day God spoke unto Noah and commanded
him to go forth, he, his wife and children,
and take with him every living thing
that was with him in the Tebah. This commandment
Noah hastened to obey. The
camels, elephants and horses bore the heavier
burdens as we unloaded the Tebah. The
Tebah appeared desolate, indeed deserted by
its occupants.
Noah led the procession, the family follow-