，ONE - THE ENCHANTED SLEEPER-1in a valley shaded with rhododendrons, close to the snow line, where a stream milky with meltwater splashed and where doves and linnets flew among the immense pines, lay a cave, half-hidden by the crag above and the stiff heavy leaves that clustered below.the woods were full of sound: the stream between the rocks, the wind among the needles of the pine branches, the chitter of insects and the cries of small arboreal mammals, as well as the birdsong; and from time to time a stronger gust of wind would make one of the branches of a cedar or a fir move against another and groan like a cello.it was a place of brilliant sunlight, never undappled. shafts of lemon-gold brilliance lanced down to the forest floor between bars and pools of brown-green shade; and the
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