Chapter 3 AT
THE CASCADES.Wails on the wind, fades out the sunset quite,
And in my heart and on the earth is night.
Philip Bourke
Marston.
The main body of Snoqualmie’s followers crossed to the north
bank of the Columbia and took the trail leading up the river toward
the inland prairies. But Snoqualmie and Wallulah went by canoe as
far as the now ruined Bridge of the Gods. There were three canoes
in their train. Snoqualmie and Wallulah occupied the first; the
other two were laden with the rich things that had once made her
lodge so beautiful. It stood all bare and deserted now, the
splendor stripped from its rough bark walls even as love and hope
had been reft from the heart of its mistress. Tapestries, divans,
carpets, mirrors, were heaped in the canoes like spoil torn from
