Page 24 - Adventures in shadow-land

eyes of a mouse would peep out at her from under
the shelter of a leaf, or else a toad would leap

hastily from the path into the waters of the
brook. '

Still Eva walked onward, more eagerly than
ever, for though the “ Follow, follow m e!” of

the brook was now silent, she heard the voice
of the other waters, and at every turn in the path

she looked forward eagerly for the little joyous
cascade she expected to see. For it she looked,

yet In vain: though the sound of the waters grew
louder, she saw nothing, till at last a sudden gleam

of golden light, from a long opening in the forest,
fell across the now placid waters of the brook;

and Eva looked up to see, far away in this open­
ing, a fountain playing in clouds of golden spray,

amid which danced sparkles of light; and the
path, parting abruptly from the brook which it

had followed so long, led down the opening in
the forest directly to this play of waters, whose

voice Eva had heard and followed.
And as she turned away from the little brook,

whose course and her own had so long been the
same, it seemed to her that even the silvery ripple