Sacred allegories . she never returned fromit again. Minna used every effort to detain her, and it was not until Rhoda,in her struggles to escape, began to drag her also down the slope,that she was forced to release her hold. She raised her eyes,and saw that the image of the bright cloud and distant hills hadnow faded from the sky: she knew, therefore, that she must notagain approach the ruin, for she could not do so without losing-sight of her promised home; but, with a heart full of anguish,and the tears streaming down her cheeks, she watched her sistersreceding steps. Rhodas path downward p
Sacred allegories . she never returned fromit again. Minna used every effort to detain her, and it was not until Rhoda,in her struggles to escape, began to drag her also down the slope,that she was forced to release her hold. She raised her eyes,and saw that the image of the bright cloud and distant hills hadnow faded from the sky: she knew, therefore, that she must notagain approach the ruin, for she could not do so without losing-sight of her promised home; but, with a heart full of anguish,and the tears streaming down her cheeks, she watched her sistersreceding steps. Rhodas path downward proved very smooth and easy; evenher wounds and bruises were forgotten for a time, and the sprainof her ankle no longer impeded her walk; the green lizard keptenticing her on, always creeping a few steps farther as she stoopedto take it in her hand; it led her by all the steepest parts ofthe descent, so that, even had she wished, she could not have stoodstill; but it seemed to Minna that she did not once pause in the. side until Rhoda again entered the mined tower and was hiddenfrom her view. 132 THE DISTANT HILLS. She then turned away and felt very sorrowful; but her heartwould have been still heavier had she been permitted to know theremainder of her sisters history. It is in truth a very painful green lizard did not this time remain in the ruined tower,but, passing through it, still glided along the side of the buildingto other parts, which were in a yet more dangerous state. Khodawas resolved to follow it; her path, indeed, was no longer smoothand easy, as it had been while she was descending the hill; but shehad gone so far that she would not abandon the pursuit. Alas!half the pains that she now bestowed upon it, might have enabledher to get back again to that spot on which alone she could besafe. Sometimes she had to climb over loose slippery stones, andat others to crawl on her hands and knees through narrow crevicesin the wall; her eyes were filled with dust and
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