He had assumed the entire costume of Cucumetto.

The young man saw the effect produced on his betrothed, and a smile of pride passed over his lips.--'Now,' he said to Teresa, 'are you ready to share my fortune, whatever it may be ?'--'Oh, yes!' exclaimed the young girl enthusiastically.--'And follow me wherever I go ?'--'To the world's end.'-- 'Then take my arm, and let us on; we have no time to lose.'-- The young girl did so without questioning her lover as to where he was conducting her, for he appeared to her at this moment as handsome, proud, and powerful as a god.

They went towards the forest, and soon entered it.

We need scarcely say that all the paths of the mountain were known to Vampa; he therefore went forward without a moment's hesitation, although there was no beaten track, but he knew his path by looking at the trees and bushes, and thus they kept on advancing for nearly an hour and a half.

At the end of this time they had reached the thickest of the forest.