Page 287 - Adventures in shadow-land

you, and set my imps to pinch you black and
blue 1" screamed Goody Cobb, with the look of a

possessed woman, as she was*
Suddenly, as Lucy dreamed— so suddenly that

she seemed to grow out of the air— there stood on
the sand between herself and the witch a tall and

beautiful woman in shining raiment of green and
silver, with golden hair that fell loosely to her

ankles. She gazed sternly on the witch; a divine
wrath made her blue eyes awful

“ You earth-born creature 1'* she cried as she
caught the green necklace from the old woman's

trembling hand. “ This girt is a child of the
ocean, and is in my care;1' and Lucy dreamed

that she felt glad to remember how she had been
born on the voyage her mother made with her

father to Calcutta* “ Stay where you are for
ever IM continued the stranger lady, raising her

white hand with a gesture of command. “ You
will wreck no more ships— you, nor your sister

witch.11 And then as she stood Goody Cobb stif­
fened into stone and became a black rock.

*f You need not be afraid of me, my dear/' said
the dream lady to Lucy. ** I never hurt any one