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"O Martin!" says my companion, "O Martin!" and so stood awed by the destruction wrought by this , but by dint of labour with e until we suddenly caht behold the fall that leapt froe into those deep and troubled waters below

And now instead of bursting forth into cries of delighted wonder, as I had expected, ht-clasped, viewing now the splendour of these falling waters, now the foam-sprent deeps below, like one quite dumbfounded At last: "O Martin," says she in my ear, for the noise of the fall was very loud, "here is wonder on wonder!"

"As how, coht yet disturbeth yonder black depths very little--and how should this chance except this dark lake be immeasurably deep?"

"Aye, true!" says I "Here belike was a volcano once and this the crater"

Hard by, a great rock jutted out above the lake, that same barren rock wherein I had sat the day I discovered this cataract; now as I viewed this rock I was struck by its grotesque shape and then, all at once, I saas hatefully like to a shrivelled head--there were the fleshless jaws, the shrunken nose and great, hollow eye-socket And now even as I stared at the thing my companion spied it also, for I felt her hand onno word, stared upon this shape, and ever as we stared the narow, insomuch that we turned with one accord and hasted away

"Yonder was an ill sight, Martin"

"Indeed!" says I "'Twas like the face of one long dead! And yet 'tis no e tricks soe and most unlovely!" After this ent on side by side and never a word betwixt us until we had reached that pleasant chaoodly trees, in whose branches fluttered birds of a plue marvellously coloured and diverse, and beneath which bloomed flowers as vivid; insomuch that my lady brake forth ever and anon into little soft cries of delighted wonder And yet despite all these hastly rock

Presently as we journeyed ca the sun's ih oftti, and we laughed and talked unfeignedly as only good comrades may