"The lane must lead to somewhere," I said to myself, though really it
seemed as if it was endless. I must have been running, or half running
and sometimes walking for nearly an hour when at last--the mist having
cleared a little--I saw a light in front, a little to one side. It
seemed to bob up and down as I ran--the lane was uneven just here, and
once or twice I was afraid it had gone. But no--there it was again, and
to my joy I found it came from a cottage window across a field to the
right.

"I shall find I am miles and miles from home," I thought, and just fancy
my surprise when I knocked at the door and asked my way, to be told that
I was not half-a-mile from the hall."

I had gone thoroughly wrong almost from the first, and the long lane
skirted the fields away up on higher ground behind our house as it were,
where I had had no business to be at all.

They were just sallying out with lanterns to look for me, but they never
would have thought of that lane, and there I might easily have been left
all night if my strength had really failed.

Oh how glad I was to change my damp clothes and to have a nice hot cup
of tea in my mother's room beside the fire!

Since then I have never boasted about being sure to find my way.

EDMUND EVANS, ENGRAVER AND PRINTER, RACQUET COURT, FLEET STREET,
LONDON, E.C.

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