Her energy was marvelous--and yet was she not hunting down a criminal?
was she not determined to obtain such evidence as would enable her to speak the truth fearlessly, and with confidence that it would have the effect of convicting the guilty one?
Slowly we toiled on up the picturesque little glen for nearly a mile and a half.

Its beauties were extraordinary, and the silence was unbroken save for the musical ripple of the water over the stones.

Hidden there in the center of that great wood, no one had visited it perhaps for years, not even the keepers, for no path led there, and by reason of the tangle of briars and bush it was utterly ungetatable.

Indeed, it had ruined our clothes to search there, and as we went on with so many windings and turns we became utterly out of our bearings.

We knew ourselves to be in the center of the wood, but that was all.
The sun had set, and the sky above showed the crimson of the distant afterglow, warning us that it was time we began to think of how to make our exit.