And paralyzed by what we had beheld, motionless stood we.
"Listen," she said.

"You two who love the maid.

What you have seen is nothing to that which you SHALL see--a wisp of mist to the storm cloud." "Norhala"-- I found speech--"can you tell us when it was that the maid was captured ?" Perhaps there was still time to overtake the abductors before Ruth was thrust into the worse peril waiting where she was being carried.

Crossed this thought another--puzzling, baffling.

The cliffs Yuruk had pointed out to me as those through which the hidden way passed were, I had estimated then, at least twenty miles away.