Page 158 - Adventures in shadow-land

C H A P T E R X V L

ASTER'S STORY.

|NCE more Eva and Aster, hand in hand,
wandered, as they both had feared they

would never again be allowed to do,
through the forest, by the light of the fair young

moon,‘which looked down upon them from the
sky. And nothing came now to disturb them;

no hideous faces mocked at them from behind
shrub or tree; no hostile beings, in shape of
spider or of frog, strove to take Aster from his

young guardian. Nor were they limited, as
before, to the narrow path which had pre­

viously confined their steps; but they might
wander, unmolested, as their fancy led them,
through the forest. Shadows still surrounded

them, yet these shadows were fair and lovely

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