THE COUNCIL FIRL 187

The elders presiding over the destinies
of both had given a happy consent to Tanpa's
invitation, and the two were now the
guests for a few days of the mountain
Group at their camp on the egg-shaped
Bowl.

The sigh of the mountain breeze came
soothingly across the lake to lull their
slumbers as they lay down to rest, side by
side, in the little bungalow cots of which a
dozen ranged the length of the great water-side
dormitory half-open, half-screened.

Yet Pem fell asleep imploring Ta-Te--and
lost the little record altogether in her
dreams!

Up and down old Greylock she plodded,
looking for it, hand in hand with Toandoah,
-but ever it eluded them!

Muttering, bereft, she tossed; then for a
moment awoke, blinkingly sat up, to see
the moonlight flickering--Mammy Moon's
own smile--upon the pearl-woven prophecy
beside her, from which she could
hardly be parted by night or day.

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