Page 87 - Adventures in shadow-land

nothing from Shadow-Land could be brought into

their valley; and then to be careful and not

touch the threshold of the door, but to step over
it/ And Eva did as they told herj hut when she
threw the white stone over the precipice, it changed

into a large white moth as it left her hand; and

Eva, watching it, saw one of the faces rise from
out of the curling; mists to meet it, and then the
moth changed into a face like the one she had

first seen, and then both disappeared among the
mists and vapors. And the moment she passed

through the door, it dosed suddenly behind her,
and could not be told from the solid rock; and

Eva saw that she was in a place totally different
from anything she had ever seen before in her

wanderings.
She found that she was now in a large, grassy

valley* in the midst of which was built a beautiful
rose-colored palace, shining like a star. Flowers

of the gayest hues bloomed all through the grass;
fountains of musical water, surrounded with rain­

bows, played here and there; birds and butterflies
o f brilliant colors flew among the flowers, and

were so tame that they would alight on the chil­