Page 95 - Adventures in shadow-land

ing piteously in her ears, with a heavy heart, after

several fruitless efforts to climb the rocky, she
went back to the palace, determined to wait for

the return of the children; for, although she had
been very happy while with them, and was un­

willing to leave them, she intended to ask them
how she could leave the peaceful Valley of Rest,

and if they would provide her with the means of
continuing her search for Aster.
Had Eva consulted her own wishes, and been

able to carry them out, she would not have waited
one moment, but would have gone at once out

into Shadow-Land, which she now knew lay all
around the valley. She knew, too, that the little

brook running through the valley, and which had
brought her Aster's cry for help; was the same

whose “ Follow, follow m e!" had led her to the
golden fountain from whose crest she had re^

ceived her little charge. But how to leave the
valley she did not know. She could do nothing

by herself,—she must wait till the return of the
children,— so that she could scarcely be patient till
the hours of darkness came, knowing that during