"Now, somewhere in that thick forest, in the bottom of that vale,
stands the house--well called the Hidden House, since not a chimney
of it can be seen even from this commanding height! But I suppose
this path that leads down into the valley may conduct me to the
building! Come along, Gyp! You needn't turn up your head and pull at
the bit! You've got to go! I am bound this night to see the outside
of the Hidden House, and the window of the haunted chamber at the
very least!" said Cap, throwing her eyes up defiantly toward the
darkening sky, and putting whip to her unwilling horse.
As the path wound down into the valley the woods were found deeper,
thicker and darker. It occupied all Cap's faculties to push her way
through the overhanging and interlacing branches of the trees.
"Good gracious," she said, as she used her left arm rather
vigorously to push aside the obstructions to her path, "one would
think this were the enchanted forest containing the castle of the
sleeping beauty, and I was the knight destined to deliver her! I'm
sure it wouldn't have been more difficult."
Still deeper fell the path, thicker grew the forest and darker the
way.
"Gyp, I'm under the impression that we shall have to turn back yet!"
said Cap, dolefully stopping in the midst of a thicket so dense that
it completely blockaded her farther progress in the same direction.
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