Page 74 - Adventures in shadow-land

where the stones could be of which the voice had

said, *' Eewarc I"
At last, when there was only a tiny crescent of

the moon, like a faint silver line, floating in the
sky, and Aster’s figure, like it, was once more

reduced to its smallest dimensions, the forest
through which they had wandered for so long

ended; and as they passed from it, a low cry of
surprise from Astei made Eva look down, as she

saw that his eyes were fixed upon the earth; and
then she saw with equal surprise that, while she
walked along the rough, stony path without leav­

ing any impression, every step that Aster took
left a deep, plain track, and that in each of these

tracks there was either a frog or a spider, which
would disappear while she looked at them.

Then a sudden turn 111 the path brought them
to a place where a huge pile of rocks, like an Im­

mense stone wall built hy giants, rose up before
them. A faint breatli of violets seemed to come,

and then pass away, and as it did, Eva knew that
these were the stones of which she had been
warned.

At tliat very moment there was a Sash of