Page 125 - Adventures in shadow-land

C H A P T E R X I I I .

THE EN CH AN TED R IV E R .

ftVA had heard so much about this won­

derful stream that, as she stood upon
its banks, she could scarcely realize that

she had at last reached it. And it looked quiet
enough, now that she had come to it* It had

seemed to her that the waters of the Brook of
Mists had ended in nothing; but now, as she stood

upon the river-bank, and looked back, she could
see no water. The curling mists and vapors had

spread over and covered all the way by which she
had come, and the only things left to show the

place of the brook were the two black rocks, half
hid, half revealed, by the mists playing around
them. But to remain there, looking back, would,

as Eva well knew, never do. Her way lay down
the river, and she might as well go boldly forward.

So, slowly and carefully, she began to walk along
the bank.