Page 75 - Adventures in shadow-land

light, and a star fell from the sky, near the

moon,
“ A falling star, how pretty it is!” Eva said, as

she watched the bright thing, which seemed to
fall behind the stone wall. ts Did you see it,
Aster?”

"Y o u don’ t know anything, E va," was his re­

ply* tfI told you once before that everything
which was lost in the moon, fell into Shadow-
Land, and that was something bright which fell

just now.”
But this had nothing to do with the wall, which

must be climbed. Ho^, Eva did not know. She
was almost afraid to try it ; and so she stood,

looking at it, when Aster, who, ever since he had
crushed the violets, had followed her in silence,

except when he had spoken of the shooting star,
with his eyes bent on the ground, suddenly ran
forward to the wall, and began to look eagerly

into every crevice between the stones.
What are you looking for?’1 Eva asked him.

"Com e back to me, Aster; it is not safe for you
there without me."

“ I will look," Aster said. "T h e bright thing