Page 156 - Adventures in shadow-land

little prince, she knew how it was that he had

been taken from her, and that her power over
him was nearly gone. Yet she knew that if she

could once again obtain possession of him that
no one could rescue him \ and as Eva had once

submitted to her, she had no power of herself,
as she before possessed, to protect him. And

without even looking at the Toad-Woman, she
was going to leap upon Aster, and try and snatch
him from Eva's arms, when the Toad-Woman,

taking from her pocket a curl, which even in that
moment Eva recognized as pari of the one which

she had cut to give to the trout, and which had
lain, forgotten ever since, in the pocket of her

own white dress, dropped it 011 the ground. And
as the hair touched the ground a spring of clear

water came bubbling up, and in it Eva saw her
friends, the six trout, whom she recognized by
the golden collars they wore; and the Green Frog

was so surprised that she stopped to look, and
then the water covered her, and before she could

move, the trout, as they had once said they could
do, swam up to her and enveloped her in a net

made of these goltlen hairs* which the Frog could