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The Gift of the Fountain, 2g

sprung up there expressly as a bed for her,. and
before .many minutes had passed she was asleep.

But while she slept; there hovered over her
two fair white forms, who looked at her and

smiled, and then one of them whispered to the
other, in the silvery voice of the brook:

“ The worst is over.”
“ No," the other replied. “ Although the boy

is safe, for a time, in the hands of his protector,
his punishment is uot yet over. Love must teach
him obedience,— that alone can appease and work

out the will of Fate,”
** And we can do no more for him !,f

“ We can only wait, and hope.”
A moment later, a^d the two bright forms
were gone. And, watched by the twinkling starst

lulled by the low murmur of the gentle breeze
playing among the trees of the great forest; the

fair child slept, holding clasped to her innocent
breast the helpless figure which had come to her

as the gift of the fountain.