Page 80 - Adventures in shadow-land

by it, for she was thirsty* to drink from its coot
and sparkling waters, and then to wash her face

and hands in them ; and as she dipped her hands
in the spring, the little ripples they made whis­

pered, softly, ** Over yonder ! over yonder I” but
Eva was not sure if she really had heard these
words, or'only imagined them.

Refreshed by the cool water, she went back to

the great, rough, stone wall, intending to secure her
charge, and then try to go on. But what was her
surprise, on returning, as she thought, to the same

stone on which she had slept, to see that there
were so many stones just exactly like it, that she

could not find the one she wanted 1 and, what was
still stranger, she saw that over every little hole,

every tiny cavity in the stone, there was a white
mark exactly like the one which she had made

over the crevice into which Aster had crept, and
she could not say which of them all was hers.

She was in despair for a moment. How was
she to find, among all these bolus, each with the

same white mark over it, the one in which Aster
was asleep ? Then she remembered that standing
stiil and looking at the wall would do no good;