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Up this tortuous trail Rhoda staggered, closely followed by DeWitt At a level spot the girl paused

"Water, John! Water!" she cried

The two threw the until they could hold no more Then Rhoda lay down on the sun-warmed rocks and sleep overwhelmed her

She opened her eyes to stare into a yellow moon that floated liquidly above her Whether she had slept through a night and a day or whether but a few hours had elapsed since she had staggered to the spring beside which she lay, she could not tell She lay looking up into the sky languidly, but with clear h roused her DeWitt sat on the other side of the spring, rubbing his eyes

"Hello!" he said in a hoarse croak "How did we land here?"

"I led us here soes When or how, quién sabe?" answered Rhoda "John, we must find food somehow"

"Drink all the water you can, Rhoda" said DeWitt; "it helps soirl! More hardships for you!"

Rhoda dipped her burning face into the water, then lifted it, dripping

"If only you won't be delirious, John, I can stand the hardships"

DeWitt looked at the girl curiously

"Was I delirious? And you were alone, leading me across that Hades out there? Rhoda dear, you make me ashamed of myself!"

"I don't see how you were to bla forthis trail with me, to find where we are, or had you rather stay here?"

"I don't want to stay here alone," answered Rhoda

Very slowly and weakly they started up the trail The spring was on a broad stone terrace Above it rose another terrace weathered and disrupted until in the nable castle wall, ely invulnerable fortress was the trail, a snake-like shadow in theuntil

"Not with the hope of shelter a hundred feet above us," answered John firuess is that there are some inhabitants here It's queer that they haven't discovered us"

Slowly and without further protest, Rhoda followed DeWitt up the trail Deep-worn and sh it was, they acco like a sleep-sodden child, wondered if ever again she was to accoical ease hich Kut-le had endowed her