Page 60 - Adventures in shadow-land

pass them by, and that she saw over or else among

them shadows of the same hateful faces which shy
dreaded- But it was useless to try and convince
Aster of this; she soon learned that nothing ever
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presented the same appearance to him that it did

to her*
In consequcnce, whenever Aster insisted upon

leaving the path, as he often did, Eva watched
him with a kind of terror, and never felt he was

safe unless she led him by the hand. Placed, as
he was, under her care, she felt sure that when

with her no danger could come near him, nothing
harm him. Still, if he had enemies in this great

forest, he had friends, too \ for once, when he
stooped to gather a flower which bloomed near

the path, she heard it say:

11 Guard thou well thy charge to-day.
There is danger in the way,"'

But Aster, laughed joyfully, as he looked up
without gathering the flower, and said :

** Did yon hear what the flower told me, Eva?
That weis the reason why I did not pick it, for it

said that I should have much pleasure to-day,”