But for their encouragement the girls would have been too much scared to proceed.

Delia was clinging to Peachy, and Lorna held Irene's arm tightly.

Miss Morley, who had been before, kept assuring everybody that there was no danger, and after a few minutes they grew sufficiently accustomed to the scene to thoroughly enjoy the magnificent effects of the clouds circling below them.

But the guides were calling "Haste," for the mist was clearing, and it would be possible to get a view of the crater.

They all scurried along the path, and suddenly to the left, instead of the high ridge of cinders, they could look down into a deep rocky ravine.