Page 130 - Adventures in shadow-land

woman sat on a rock, around which the milky
waters were foaming* and mists and vapors rose

above and behind her. To this old woman she
also spoke, and asked her the same question

which she had asked before,—where Aster was.
And in reply she was told that still farther down

the river, at the Cascade of Rocks, was where the
Toad-Woman lived, and that perhaps she might

tell Eva what it was that she wished to know.
“ But,” the Mist-Woman added, et my sister will
not always answer those who speak to her, and I

cannot tell you how to make her/' And, as she
spoke, the vapors thickened and gathered around

her for a moment, and then melted away, and
the Mist-Woman had vanished with them, and

nothing was left except the bare rock.
The child began to think that the wonders of

the river would never cease, and that her journey
down it would be endless. Yet, tired as she was,
she persevered, and went on until all the water

was gone, and only stones and rocks lay in its

former bed. But, strange to say, as Eva walked
among the stones and rocks, she found they were
only shadows. Then* all at once* a loud noise,