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CHAPTER X.
EFFECT.

Twat evening Lucy and her mother set out
to go with Robert to his clearing, to build a fire
for the purpose of seeing’ how it would look in
the dark. When they were up there in the fore-
noon, Lucy had asked her mother to go up some
evening, as Robert said he had another heap which
he could burn. Lucy wanted very much to see
a fire in the night, and, in fact, her mother did,
too. They asked the General about it at supper-
time, and he said that there was no danger then
in making fires; and so, a little after sundown,
Lucy and her mother set forth, Robert and Eben
coming along close behind them. Lucy carried
the lantern, and Robert his axe.

Lucy had given her mother an account of her
adventure with Comfort on the great stone; and
so strong had been the impression which the affair
had made upon her mind, that she had several
times alluded to it afterwards. And now, as they
were walking along, her mother silently admiring

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