"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?"