Page 120 - Adventures in shadow-land

the same, and she saw that he was nothing but a
huge spider, and that instead of walking on the

water, as she had supposed, he had come to the
boat on a web strctched across the brook, on which

he was now running away just as fast as he could.
Then another of the trout put up his head, and

said:
“ You did well to refuse him, for if he hart

gotttfn into the boat, or if you had given him the
feather, he would have put a bandage over your

eyes, so that you could not see, and then would
have spun a web around you and the boat, and

nobody knows how you ever would have got out
o f it-,f

“ He could not do it in the forest,” Eva said;
“ how could he do it here ?"

“ Because first you were only brought into
Shadow-Land; this time you came into it. Such

as he can only control those who allow him. He
could only have power over you by your own act

and deed/'
And once more the boat went on. But after

awhile she was hailed again,—and Eva bade her
stop.