thus we parted but ah i little did we guess how and where the three of us would meet again we were weary and soon fell fast asleep beside our camp fire for knowing that the whole army guarded us we had no fear i remember watching the bright stars which shone in the immense vault above me until they in the pure light of the risen moon now somewhat past her full and hearing from beneath his fur rug that was quite right and that it was pleasant to be in the open air again as he was tired i til after that i knew no more until i was awakened by the challenge of a in the distance then a a second challenge from the officer of our own rd another pause and a priest stood bowing before the light from the fire playing upon his head and face which i seemed to recognize � and he gave a name that was familiar to me but which i forget � am sent my lords by who commands me to say that the would speak with you both and at once now sat up yawning and asked what was the matter i told him whereon he said he wished that aye sha could have waited till daylight then added � well there is no help for it come on he rose to follow the messenger the priest bowed again and said � the commands of the are that my lords should their weapons and their guard what grumbled to protect us for a walk of a yards through the heart of an army the explained the man has left her tent le is in the yonder studying the line of advance how do you know that i asked i do not know it he replied told me so that is all and therefore the bade my lords bring guard for she is alone is she mad ejaculated to wander about in such a place at midnight well it is like her i too thought it was like her who did nothing that hers would have done and j et i hesitated then i that had said she might send for us also i was sure that if any trick had been intended we should not have been warned to bring an escort so we called tile guard � there were twelve of them � took our and swords and started we were by both the first and second lines and i noticed that as we gave them the pass a the prophecy of word the last who of course recognized us looked astonished still if they had doubts they did not dare to express them so we went on now we began to descend the sides of the by a very steep path with which the priest our guide seemed to be curiously familiar for he went down it as though it were the of his own house a strange place to take us to at night said doubtfully when we were near the bottom and the chief of the that great red bearded hunter who had been mixed up in the matter of the snow also muttered some words of remonstrance whilst i was trying to catch what he said of a sudden something white walked into the patch of moonlight at the foot of the and we saw that it was the veiled figure of herself the chief saw her also and said � look at her grumbled strolling about in that haunted hole as though it were park and on he went at a run the figure turned and beckoned to us to follow her as she glided forward picking her way through the which were scattered about upon the bed of the thus she went on into the shadow of the opposing cliff that the moonlight did not reach here in wet season a stream down a path which had cut through the rock in the course of centuries the that it had brought with it was spread about floor of the so that many of the bones w almost completely buried in the sand these i noticed as we stepped into the shadow more numerous than usual just here for on all sides i saw the white crowns of or the projecting ends of ribs and bones doubtless i thought to that made a road to the plain above past battle the fighting around it was very fit and the slaughter great los i r here aye ta had halted and was engaged in the of this strewn path as though si making um of it tliat day now we i and the priest who guided us fell back wit leaving us to go forward alone since the i not approach the l was in advance of me seven or eight yards perhaps an i ard him say � t why dost venture into such places at n i unless indeed it is not possible for any harm li me to thee f she made no answer only turned and opened her ana let them fall to her side again whilst � what this signal of hers might mean � ac shadows about us came a strange rustling i looked and lo everywhere the were from their sandy beds i saw their white gleaming arm and leg bones their hollow ribs the army had come to life again and in hands were the ghosts of of course i knew at once that this was but another of s magic powers which some of hers had drawn us from our beds to witness i confess that i felt frightened even the of men however free from superstition might be excused should their nerve fail them if when standing in a churchyard at midnight suddenly on every side they saw the dead arising from their graves also our surroundings were and more than those of any 