Page 151 - Adventures in shadow-land

C H A P T E R X V .

IN TH E GROTTO.

reS ~ 3|T was with a light heart that Eva passed
IPs over the muddy way which lay between

MjlffijiJ the hut and the cascade. As rapidly as
she could, she went along. The little bird

screamed and cried incessantly, and Eva feared,
that hearing him, the frogs inhabiting this region

might, by their croakings, give the alarm, and
bring their powerful mistress on her track before

she reached the grotto. But the frogs were all,
or else seemed to be, asleep, and she passed them
unnoticed.

In a very short time, which yet seemed to Eva
like hourSj she reached the grotto. Here she felt

comparatively safe, and she would gladly have
rested, but the Toad-Woman, telling her she had

no time to lose, for the Green Frog knew of her
escape, and that she herself was well aware of all

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