24 Fairy Tales

night’s lodging.” He turned as he spoke,
and looked, and there out of the gloom of
the trees shone a most inviting and friendly
light. “Yes, I will,’ he said to himself
obstinately, ‘‘and to-morrow Krawk may
search and search, and then perhaps he
will be sorry when he can’t find me. That
will show him that he isn’t going to be
master.”

With this in his mind he went back, run-

ning fast and faster; and, keeping the red
light in view, he reached it sooner than he
expected, and very breathless. As he drew
nearer something seemed to rise up as if to
stop him, but it was too late. The door was
flung open, and there he stood in the full
glare.
“Come in, come in!” said a voice which
somehow turned him sick, and before him
was a very little woman with eyes as small
and venomous as those of a snake, and a
mocking smile on her lips. ‘Why didst
not turn in before?”

Jacob stared at her and stammered—