Prently they came to a long, straight, sanded path with not a weed growing on it and trees oher hand. Far off at the other end of this avehey now caught sight of a hou—very long and gray and quiet-looking iernoon sun.
Almost as soon as they ehis path Luoticed that she had a little stone in her shoe. In that unknown place it might have been wir for her to ask the others to wait while she took it out. But she didn’t; she just dropped quietly behind and sat down to take off her shoe. Her lace had got into a knot.
Before she had uhe knot the others were a fair distance ahead. By the time she had got the sto and utting the shoe on again she could no longer hear them. But almost at once she heard something el. It was not ing from the dire of the hou.
What she heard was a thumping. It sounded as if dozens of strong workmen were hitting the ground as hard as they could with great wooden mallets. And it was very quickly ing nearer. She was already sitting with her back to a tree, and as the tree was not one she could climb, there was really nothing to do but to sit dead still and press herlf against the tree and hope she wouldn’t be en.
Prently they came to a long, straight, sanded path with not a weed growing on it and trees oher hand. Far off at the other end of this avehey now caught sight of a hou—very long and gray and quiet-looking iernoon sun.
Almost as soon as they ehis path Luoticed that she had a little stone in her shoe. In that unknown place it might have been wir for her to ask the others to wait while she took it out. But she didn’t; she just dropped quietly behind and sat down to take off her shoe. Her lace had got into a knot.
Before she had uhe knot the others were a fair distance ahead. By the time she had got the sto and utting the shoe on again she could no longer hear them. But almost at once she heard something el. It was not ing from the dire of the hou.
What she heard was a thumping. It sounded as if dozens of strong workmen were hitting the ground as hard as they could with great wooden mallets. And it was very quickly ing nearer. She was already sitting with her back to a tree, and as the tree was not one she could climb, there was really nothing to do but to sit dead still and press herlf against the tree and hope she wouldn’t be en.