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What Aster was. 39

“ When the moon is round."
" Why not now?”

u They will not let you.”
And with this answer Eva was forced to be

content. But every day they would stand side by
side, and every day Aster grew taller and taller;
and every day the moon grew broader and brighter.

At last she rose, a round, perfect orb, to her

station in the sky; and as Eva, awakened by the
loud music which told of her coming, sat up to
see and wonder at the bright light she cast, Aster

came quietly behind her, and, laying his hands on
her shoulders, said;

(e Look at me, Eva. The day has come, and
I am as tall as you are.”

Eva sprang to her feet. As she did so, Aster
put his arm around her, and she saw that there

was now no difference in their height,— they were
exactly the same size. And, strange to say, his

elothes had grown with him, and their rich, soft
velvet fitted him now as perfectly as it had done

when Eva first took him, small and helpless, from
the crest of the golden fountain,

HI can tell you now who I am,” the beautiful