"But," she said, "I am quite sure mother has not gone that way, I should never find her there." "How do you know?" said Adin, "why we are nearly sure to come across some other pilgrims who will do their best to help us to find our mothers. There is really nothing to fear." Looking through the gate Iddo recognized the face of a pilgrim she had met in the way. "It must be all right," she murmured as they passed through, "as she is here. Perhaps mother may after all have gone this way." To Iddo's astonishment she recognized many a one whom she had noticed standing listening to the preacher on the heath, and there was something about them that did not exactly re-assure her; they seemed almost to be settling down in the town instead of walking through it, and what filled her with concern was the fact that as yet Adin and she had not found a trace of their own path. "Will you tell us the name of this place?" said Iddo to a passer-by, who looked good-natured and kind. "This is a town, in the Land of Indifference," he answered, smiling. "Are all these people on the way to the Radiant City?" she asked anxiously. "Many of them profess to be," he answered, looking at her kindly. "But are you?" she asked. He shrugged his shoulders. "Ask me an easier question," he said, and turned away. "People do not like to be questioned," said Adin in a vexed tone of voice, "Come, don't be so worrying, let us anyhow enjoy ourselves while we are here. Look, there are many things to see. It must be a happy place, as almost every one is laughing." "I have seen quite as many people yawning with weariness," said Iddo; but she quite forgot all the time to open her Guide Book for an explanation of the town, and after all there was so much to be seen and so many people to watch, that gradually the thought of the Radiant City grew dimmer, and the enemy who had led the girls into the town, felt he could safely leave them for a time, while he went to tempt another traveller on the road. But every now and then Iddo's conscience awoke, and she begged for information of those about her. "How is it," she asked one who had been joining company with her and her friend, "how is it that people seem so light-hearted here?" "Because they don't worry about things they cannot understand," she answered lightly, "what is the good of worrying?" "But don't they ever think of the possibility of not reaching the Radiant City if they stay too long in this place?" she asked. "But why should you think that even now they are not on their way?" answered her companion. "I take for granted when I think of it at all that I am going there. We do nothing very wrong in this city. I do not think that the enemy is particularly busy here. We are thoroughly steady and respectable and good-natured. What more can you expect of us? Pray don't get it into your head that we are going to be left for ever outside the Radiant City."