Page 168 - Adventures in shadow-land

through the darkness to where the children lay.
But the white forms, hovering over their sleep,
spoke;

li Go back* oh, evil fairies! to the dark shadows
among which ye dwell J Here your power is

over, and our Prince is a prince once more."
And; with a low cry of disappointment and

rage, the two, turning away from the bright
forms, shrank into the darkness, and were seen
no more. Then* with a smile on their beautiful

faces, the two bright forms bent caressingly over
the sleepers; and a moment later they, too, were
gone, and Eva and Aster were alone.