the vicinity to which visitors of received Orthodox creed
should dutifully pay their respects, and were gratified to
learn that we were but a few miles from Jane McCrea and her
Indian murderers. Was a carriage procurable? Well, yes, if
the ladies would be willing to go in that. It wasn't very
smart, but it would take 'em safe,--as if "the ladies" would
have raised any objections to going in a wheelbarrow, had it
been necessary, and so we bundled in. The hills were steep,
and our horse, the property of an adventitious by-stander,
was of the Rosinante breed; we were in no hurry, seeing that
the only thing awaiting us this side the sunset was a
blackberry-patch without any blackberries, and we walked up
hill and scraped down, till we got into a lane which somebody
told us led to the Fort, from which the village, Fort Edward,
takes its name. But, instead of a fort, the lane ran full
tilt against a pair of bars.

"Now we are lost," I said, sententiously.

"A gem of countless price," pursued Halicarnassus, who never
quotes poetry except to destroy my equilibrium.

"How long will it be profitable to remain here?" asked Grande,
when we had sat immovable and speechless for the space of five
minutes.

"There seems to he nowhere else to go. We have got to the
end," said Halicarnassus, roaming as to his eyes over into
the wheat-field beyond.